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Startling too was the secretary's next slip announcing the resignation of Brother Irénée, vice chairman. Seventh Du Pont to have the job, he had taken over the presidency from Brother Pierre, had been vice chairman since...
...Breezy Robert Ruliph Morgan ("Rulie") Carpenter, mountain climber and beast-shooter, married a sister of Pierre, Irénée & Lammot. Wilmington calls them "the lively Carpenters" to distinguish them from "the quiet [Walter] Carpenters." Says Rulie: "Walter always went in for heavier reading than...
...making a"); and by closing and diphthongizing certain vowels, so that "ask" sounds like "ay-usk" (or "ay-ust"), and "cough" sounds like "co-uff." The uneducated New Yorker seems to say "shoik" for "shirk" and "cherce" for "choice." Actually he uses the same sound, intermediate between ir and oi, for both words...
...terrorism "has put us back" in Eire's official-and legal-campaign for the union of Ireland. But none knew better than Mr. de Valera that Barnes and Richards dead on English gallows would rekindle anti-British feeling in Eire, would strengthen the purpose of the most irresponsible, ir reconcilable elements of his country...
...Nobel Prize has gone thrice to the Curies. Once to fragile, indomitable Mother Marie and her husband Pierre, the late great discoverers of radium. Once to Mother Marie alone. Once to her spitting image and scientific successor Daughter Irène, the violently athletic co-discoverer (with Husband Jean Frédèric Joliot) of synthetic radioactivity (see cut, p. 29). But never to elegant Daughter Eve whose brilliant biography Madame Curie was a smash seller all over the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 13, 1937). Eve is no more a scientific titan than Mrs. Roosevelt. She is, however, just...