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Testifying at the Du Pont antitrust trial in Chicago last week, General Motors Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. explained why Charles F. Kettering, the company's famed research wizard, never made the top policy committee. Sloan said that in 1943 he had proposed that the committee admit "Boss Ket," who invented the self-starter and helped in the development of many another product (e.g., the high-compression motor, leaded gasoline). But when Du Pont Chairman Lammot du Pont objected, Sloan felt that his reasons were valid. "We agreed," said Sloan, "that if [Ket] came on the committee, he would...
...Commissioner of Public Roads: Francis V. (for Victor) du Pont, 58, financier, Republican National Committeeman. A member of the chemical clan (his father was T. Coleman du Pont), Du Pont served for 27 years (23 as chairman) in Delaware's State Highway Department, is given major credit for the state's A-1 road system...
...have changed to voluntary ones-and the results are confidential between doctor and patient. Today, of the 450 companies which the American Management Association considers to have good medical programs, only a few still require a report on each man to the company president. But companies like Ford, Du Pont, General Motors and Jones & Laughlin, all of which have voluntary programs, make it abundantly clear to executives that it is a good idea to be examined...
...most cases, Greenbrier's director, Dr. James P. Baker, has found that executives take treatment for ailments detected. Nine out of ten whose examinations show organic troubles undergo surgery or change their habits. Six out of ten patients found overweight start reducing. To help them, companies like Du Pont have developed special diets; Westinghouse's executive dining room features a 350-calorie "Waistliner" lunch each day and posts a calorie count after every item on its menu...
Layered Crust. Though all Monkeys are definitely uppercrust, the crust seems to come in layers. One alumna explains of the Pont Street houses: "We used to call them by their generic names. One was the Commercial House, where all the big-business daughters went. Then there was the Sporting House, where all the girls' fathers owned race horses. Finally, there was the Indian Colonels House, full of rather pale girls who had been brought up in foreign climes...