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Only two other men not of Du Pont blood and name have held that job since 1802, when Eleuthèree Irénée du Pont founded the company...
...Brandywine's Banks. Eleuthèree Irénée du Pont de Nemours was a young Frenchman* who had studied gunpowder-making under France's great chemist Lavoisier, had become inspector general of commerce under King Louis XVI. When revolutionary mobs stormed the Tuileries in 1791, Irénée and Papa Pierre led 60 volunteers who defended the King until only they and six others were left alive. They escaped, later sailed to the U.S. There, young Irénée, amazed at the high price and low quality of gunpowder, raised...
...concert pianist, and patented her own invention, the use of varicolored lighting to harmonize with the moods of music. Both parents were old friends of Wilmington's Du Ponts; Mrs. Greenewalt's sister, Ethel Hallock, had married William K. du Pont, brother of Pierre, Lammot and Ir...
...Greenewalt got a $120-a-month chemist's job at Du Pont, but was still aimless about his future. While watching vats on a graveyard shift at the old Wilmington research lab, he passed the time by practicing the clarinet, spent his off hours courting Margaretta du Pont (Irénée's daughter) his childhood friend. In 1926 they were married...
...Exactly what is happening in or about Korea," said the Post last week, "ir impossible to report because of 1) the censorship in the field and the secrecy in Washington, and 2) the propaganda-like quality of the commentaries emanating from General MacArthur's headquarters." Asked the Post: "Who is fooling whom...