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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dupré spun and thundered six preludes and fugues of Bach-a heavy dose even for the hardiest. But before his program was over, small groups had tiptoed up to the chancel to watch his hands fly over the four manuals (keyboards), and his patent-leather pumps dance over the pedals. Said one watcher: "The guy should have been a ballet dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Earth Shaker | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...became president of a combine of ten companies headed by Continental Distilling Corp. In 1939 he moved up into his present job in Publicker, Continental's parent, became an officer of several subsidiaries. Named with Marks was Nelson Littell, 51, Manhattan patent lawyer, and secretary-treasurer of American Hyalsol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIEN PROPERTY: To the Cleaners | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Government charged that in 1932 Henkel, one of the world's biggest soapmakers, licensed some of its synthetic detergent patents to Procter & Gamble, Du Pont, and Richards Chemical Co. The royalties were paid to Hyalsol, which was set up, the Government charges, as a U.S. patent-holding company under Marks and Littell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIEN PROPERTY: To the Cleaners | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Almost a million prescriptions have been ordered and mailed to Roosevelts, Longfellows, and such in the States; to less well-known patrons in Siberia, Greenland, and even Tibet. Techniques of compounding potions have changed little since the customers wore string ties and bustles, but the products are somewhat different. Patent medicines are less in demand now, and if there are any home remedies in stock, they are dwarfed by a modern refrigerator that holds biological scrums and penicillin. Business is strictly ethical, and though students may use the store telephone to schedule a rendezvous, they know better than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Billings and Stover: Leeches, Bleaches, and Drugs | 4/21/1948 | See Source »

...preparation of these letters, most graduate schools decide primarily on the quality of the grades even if they get a hundred letters of recommendation. Harvard should join forces with a number of other large colleges and let the graduate schools know the situation, bringing an end to this patent waste of everyone's time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Whom It May Concern | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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