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...Burnham is an architect-engineer for Du Pont. He was bored stiff by the hand work of reducing 16-inch squares of gauze to four-inch sponges-at four minutes to a sponge. He went home and said so. Then in self-defense he invented a semi-automatic bandage folder that would do the job in one minute. The device was made of wallboard, hinged with cloth tape, and was worth about 30?. Later, saturated fiber sheet and waterproof adhesive tape were used. Mr. Burnham gave the Delaware Red Cross full patent rights...
There is nothing in his past to frighten the old-line G.O.P. leaders (Rule 8), with whom he has worked closely for 23 years. He is supported, but not too ostentatiously, by the wealthy Pew, Du Pont and Columbia Gas & Electric interests (Rule 9). Since the first of the year he has let the voters see him (Rule 10) in speech-making appearances in Chicago, Nashville, Manhattan, Lincoln...
...most logical threats to the fortress, therefore, lay from the directions of Med-jez-el-Bab and Pont du Fahs - and last week Field Marshal Kesselring could see that his adversaries were aware of the logic. They seemed to be clearing the way, patiently and fiercely, for drives up Tunisia's center alleys. They spent the week clearing the outer walls of the alleys. French troops took Djebel Sefsouf on the one hand. British troops took Djebel el Ang on the other-a hill from which, on clear days, Tunis is visible 35 miles away. Kesselring, seeing the danger...
...postmistresses at Granogue, Del. (pop.: 96) were Du Pont heiresses Eleanor du Pont Rust and Sophie du Pont May. They learned that the post office was about to close for lack of a mistress, took the job for a joint salary of $600 a year...
...Washington and Lee University President Dr. Francis P. Gaines; Virginia's Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America; onetime NBC President Merlin H. Aylesworth; American Legion Auxiliary national President Ruth H. Mathebat; and Mrs. Du Pont. They gave the companion $1,000 award, for the radio station best serving its community and the nation, to General Electric's short-wave station KGEI of San Francisco...