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...Washington to tell a grand jury about his campaign contributions, thin, knife-faced Tycoon Lammot du Pont backed off when cameramen began an encircling movement. Explained Photophobe Du Pont: "One time I received a letter asking for the loan of $15,000 from a fellow who said he had seen my picture in the paper and knew I would give him the money because my face was 'so kind.' He sent the clipping. It was a picture of someone else...
Word came from Bill Bingham's office yesterday afternoon that Thomas W. Stephenson '37, director of Publicity and assistant to the Director of Athletics, had resigned to become associated with the Public Relations Department of the du Pont Company in Wilmington, Delaware on February...
There Hilda Emery Davis, the band leader's wife, composes, collects books and manuscripts, notably Byroniana. An able pianist, she played with the Davis orchestra in the early Bar Harbor days, says she hated him, married him after three years of it. For the Du Pont-Roosevelt wedding, at which Mr. Davis played, Mrs. D. wrote a piece called You Are the Reason for My Love Song. A sister-in-law of Conductor Pierre Monteux, she had a serious composition, The Last Knight, performed by the NBC Symphony, with M. Monteux conducting...
Father of the plan was Charles Cotterill, a Manhattan promoter-attorney specializing in Interstate Commerce Commission cases. Cotterill plugged his idea for years, finally interested Wilmington's Du Pont family. For president. Transport chose Burge M. Seymour, head of Manhattan's big Metropolitan Truck Leasing Co., a top-flight operations man. For financing. Transport went to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., which underwrote railroad giants in an earlier...
...acting, Du Pont, G. M., Chrysler and others like them had made their peace with the Revolution. They showed the rest of Business a way both to stay in business and to keep out of trouble. In making that deal, Business might or might not believe in the emergency; it did not care to say. It was of no moment, for Business was no longer in power...