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Sometimes it was wonderful. There was Paris after World War I, when "everyone" came to the Eisenhowers' apartment on the Rue d'Auteuil to have a drink, sing old songs, laugh, and refight the war, and when the nearby Seine bridge was known as "Pont Mamie." But there was also Panama in 1922. Mamie had just lost her three-year-old son, "Little Icky," and was expecting her second. She found herself living amid the damp, stifling tropical heat in an ancient and stilt-supported house. There were bats in the rafters, and tarantulas crept out of cracks...
...vicarious pleasures is reading other people's mail. In Chicago last week, the antitrust suit involving Du Pont and General Motors provided the Government with an opportunity to air confidential letters dating back 30 years and more. No matter what the letters proved or disproved about the Government's charge that Du Font's control of G.M. restricts competition, there was no doubt that they were fascinating footnotes to the growth of Du Pont...
Among the eight candidates for Alumni Association director are J. Brooks Atkinson '17, New York Times drama critic, and Lammot duPont Copeland '27, Director and Secretary of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...when he was sent to Pont Beudet to take charge of an insane asylum, he was already deep in voodoo lore...
Last week Du Pont reached through the loophole and pulled out a rebate of $29 million, the biggest E.P.T. repayment so far. Du Pont argued that during the base period it had poured millions into expansion for nylon and other new products which it did not start selling until 1939. Thus, a substantial part of its war profits was not "excess profits," and was "plainly not attributable to the war economy...