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...fully under way for eight more months, the casualty list released last week showed that roughly 25 shows are already condemned. Sing Along fans will have to warble commercials next year; NBC has dismissed Maestro Mitch and the gang. NBC has also condemned The Joey Bishop Show, Du Pont Show of the Week, Espionage, The Richard Boone Show, Hollywood and the Stars. The Andy Williams Show, Bell Telephone Hour, Grindl and The Eleventh Hour are all hanging by a nerve end and all are likely to fall...
...Jersey roller-bearing plant. In 1916 William Durant, the flamboyant founder of General Motors, bought out Sloan, who became a G.M. executive. Only four years later, when Durant was forced out for speculating in G.M. shares, Sloan had shown such a flair for organization that the new Du Pont management made him executive vice president. In 1923 he became president...
...were new M.D.s in the graduating medical class of 1961. Are we young physicians (most of us are still in training as residents at various hospitals scattered over the country) suddenly transformed into a part of this urgently needed pool of "technical scholars" for Du Pont, General Electric, and aerospace or did TIME goof...
...Manufacturers reap a $1.5 billion-a-year harvest from fertilizer, and their sales are growing 9% annually. Led by the biggest manufacturer, International Minerals & Chemical Corp. of Skokie, Ill., some 20 companies have plowed into the field, including such chemical giants as W. R. Grace, Monsanto, Allied and Du Pont. Since few farmers still rely on the less effective animal fertilizers, many meat packers-including Armour and Swift -have kept up with the times by diversifying into chemical fertilizers. Lately, half a dozen U.S. oil companies-among them, Gulf, Socony Mobil, Cities Service and Kerr-McGee-have come into...
Died. Irenee du Pont, 86, one of the world's wealthiest men (estimated empire: $400 million), longtime president and vice chairman (1919-40) of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., world's largest chemicals company, a great-grandson of the founder, who with his late brothers, Pierre S. and Lammot, presided over the company's expansion during and after World War I from munitions manufacturing into paints, plastics, rayon and cellophane, plus a 23% stock interest in General Motors, worth some $3 billion when federal trustbusters finally forced divestiture last year; after a long illness; in Wilmington...