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...white man as its managing editor. The News's new boss: New York-born Stanley Ross, 36, onetime Latin American stringer for A.P. and the New York Times, occasional platform lecturer. He also had an unsuccessful career as a "doctor" to ailing newspapers from Lake Charles, La. to Wilmington, Del. before he saw the Amsterdam News's ad in Editor & Publisher...
...review of my novel, The Barons, TIME guessed wrongly in one small, but important, particular. The city of Susquehanna is not ... in Delaware. A careful reading of several passages having to do with travel would have revealed that Susquehanna lies southwest of Wilmington, across the frontier of Delaware, in a state that at first glance would appear to be Maryland. This state (whose name escapes me) borders on Delaware for some 100 miles ... In character, speech, and appetites, its inhabitants are a shade more southern than Delaware's, which doubtless accounts for the differences your reviewer noted between...
...novel. But that will prevent few readers from noting a more than surface resemblance between the Barons and the Du Ponts, another clannish French family that fled the French Revolution, settled in Delaware, and rose to great wealth and power from a small powder mill on Brandywine Creek, near Wilmington...
...incident no less dramatic actually happened in Wilmington in 1902. In that instance it was headstrong young Alfred Iréneé du Pont who proposed to buy the company, and Cousins Thomas Coleman, the promoter, and Pierre Samuel, the financial brain-still, at 80, a member of Du Pont's finance committee-who joined him to build the business and to expand it into the fields of peace. Shortly before World War I, E. I. du Pont de Nemours, like Baron, was found in violation of the antitrust laws and split into three separate companies. The parallels...
Theresa Helburn, one of the directors of the Theatre Guild, stated earlier this week that "The Relapse" will be the third play in the Guild's current subscription season. Tentative plans call for a tryout in Wilmington, Delaware on October 5, followed by a stand in Philadelphia. Plans for the farce call for an October 23 booking at the Cort Theatre in New York...