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Died. Alexis Felix du Pont, 69, shy director and onetime vice president (1919-46) of the Du Pont munitions and chemical empire; of a heart ailment; in Rehoboth Beach, Del. He entered the family business in 1900, played a major role in the Senate's noisy 1934 investigation of the company's war profits...
...cars-to 1,500,000 Ford fans. In approach, they range from out & out product brochures to International Business Machines' ad-less Think, which runs weighty pieces by such guest byliners as Secretary of State George Marshall. There are some big chains in the house-organ field: Du Pont has 40-odd periodicals, the Borden Co. 35, International Harvester...
...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...
...already rented by 38 lessees, chiefly for storage. Nevada thinks the plant could provide the foundation for big scale electro-chemical and electro-metallurgical manufacturing, e.g,, anything from dynamite to paint. At week's end, Nevada's Senator Patrick A. McCarran was trying to interest Du Pont and Alcoa...
...will get what radiomen call an "unprecedented coverage" by U.S. radio. In Manhattan last week, Edward Roscoe Murrow, 39, famed wartime chief of CBS's European Bureau, was packing his bags for the trip. He could have included three bright new prizes*: 1) his first Alfred I. du Pont Award (for "aggressive, independent and meritorious" newsgathering); 2) his second Overseas Press Club Award (for the "best interpretation of foreign affairs by radio"); 3) his third National Headliners' Club medal (for his coverage of the British royal wedding...