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...confident, confidential voice which seems to know all the answers last week won what may in time become the toploftiest prize in radio. The prize: a $1,000 Pulitzer-style award established last year by Mrs. Alfred I. du Pont and the Florida National Group of Banking Institutions for the year's best radio commentator. The winner: Mutual's Fulton Lewis Jr. He also got a solemn salute from the committee* which chose him: "In recognition and appreciation of his initiative in the aggressive, independent and meritorious gathering, interpretation and presentation of news through the medium of radio...
...France's capital with the most beautiful canvas in the show, Honore Daumier's golden glimpse of a washerwoman ascending the steps from the river to the Quai d'Anjou, where the painter lived. A few hundred yards farther down the river, Paris' crowded Pont Neuf, the city's oldest bridge despite its name, was painted by Girtin, Renoir, Pissarro. A farewell was paid to Paris by several artists, among them the Dutchman Johann Barthold Jongkind, with a lovely view of Notre Dame towering over the river barges...
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--American tanks, thrown into a breach in the French lines southwest of Pont du Fahs, have hurled back German armor with heavy losses in a battle which may have important bearing on the outcome of the Tunisian campaign, it was disclosed officially tonight...
...process to make new nylon out of old was announced last month by Du Pont. This challenge to the wartime nylon shortage, with drives for old nylon, should mean that many of the 200 million pairs of nylon hose made during the past three years will be converted into parachute cloth, tapes and harness, glider tow ropes, other military goods...
...Pont process old nylon is put into a hot solution. The nylon (a synthetic chemical made from adipic acid and a base related to ammonia called hexamethylene-diamine) dissolves like sugar in hot tea. On cooling, the adipic acid crystallizes out and is purified, while the diamine remains in solution and can be purified by distillation. The two white crystalline chemicals resulting from this unscrambling of nylon fiber are then recombined and polymerized to form the long, tenuous molecules that give nylon its strength and elasticity. This new liquid nylon, identical with the original substance, can be squeezed out into...