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Harvard's biggest splurge--the first Regatta Weekend in the College's history, a function comparable to Yald's Derby Day or Pennsylvania's Skimmer Day--will begin this afternoon and roll straight through till Sunday...
Heads on a Skimmer. Each year the company scours U.S. colleges for their ablest men, lures about 350, has gradually moved its requirements so high that Greenewalt quips: "If we had had the same system then, I couldn't have got in." Beginners' pay is low ($317 a month for a B.S., $375 for an M.S.), but advancement can be fast. Once a man breaks ahead of his average age & salary group, his name will pop up on a "skimmer chart" which Greenewalt constantly consults. That man is then moved around departments to broaden his experience. Greenewalt...
...door to all kinds of chemical processes, (e.g., urea, long-chain alcohols), won 18 patents, most of them used by Du Pont. It was Greenewalt's work on nylon-the biggest treasure yet turned up in Du Pont test tubes-which put him far up on the skimmer chart. Du Pont's brilliant scientist, Dr. Wallace Carothers, first materialized the nylon fiber by finding a way to simulate the long-chain molecules found naturally in silk. But it was Greenewalt's patient five-year nursing, from test tube to pilot plant, that helped bring nylon to mass...
...Skimmer. In Tacoma, Wash., Mr. & Mrs. Clark G. Seabloom returned home to find their cottage ransacked, but nothing missing except the cream from the tops of four bottles of milk...
Harvard's swimming team, as even the most indifferent skimmer of the sports pages may gather, is a pretty good one. The Crimson tankmen haven't dropped a meet in exactly 28 conteats over a period of almost three years, and on the evening in March 1937, when they started their string, they also shattered Yale's 13-year, 163-meet domination of Eastern aquatic competition...