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Died. Lammot du Pont, 71, onetime head of the U.S.'s most famed family industry, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., and board chairman (1929-37) of the General Motors Corp.; of heart disease; in New London, Conn. Great-grandson of Eleuthére Irénée du Pont, who founded the original powder mill on the banks of the Brandywine in 1802. he was president from 1926 to 1940, succeeding his older brothers, Pierre, 82, and Irénée, 75. During the depression he launched the company on a program of research into...
Fair Deal trustbusters, who have sued to force Pierre, Irénée and Lammot du Pont to give up their control of General Motors, last week asked Chicago's federal court to lengthen the list of defendants. The Government wanted to cite 183 additional members of the Du Pont family in the alleged antitrust conspiracy dating back to 1914. In Wilmington, Del., Lammot du Pont, noting that 96 of the defendants are under 21 years of age and 61 of them under 14, cited, as the prize new defendant, Irénée's granddaughter...
...current biographers believe, is literally "a fallen angel," a pure spirit without a body who tempts man to sin. He is not the principle of Evil, since Evil is itself a negative quality, i.e., merely the lack of Good in God's imperfect creatures. As French Historian Henri-Irénée Marrou explains it, it is like the holes in a sponge. "Evil," he continues, "is something that need not have existed ... It reveals in all its depth and ambivalence the mystery of liberty . . . Satan, an angel, is the free being who first chose to move away...
HARVARD: Pildner, g; Janeway, rfb; Young, ifb; Szaraz, rhb; Haegler, chb; Jobbins, ihb; Yeomans or Cowperthwaite, ir; Toro, cf; Blumenfeld, il; Fransioli...
...Montgomery Evans II of Greenwich, Conn., who has written two books on book-collecting and travel and is looking for a publisher. * In France, the name Du Pont is nearly as common as Smith in the U.S. To identify his branch, Irénée's father, Pierre, added "Nemours," the locality where he owned a country estate. *Pierre died from exhaustion in 1817 after fighting a fire all night; Irénée's wife was permanently injured in a blast that killed 36 workmen in 1818; Lammot du Pont, father of the brothers Pierre...