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...Emily Perkins Bissell, 86, originator and guiding spirit of the annual U.S. Christmas Seal drive, which netted $3,000 its first year (1907), more than $18 million last year, and over the years helped drop tuberculosis from first place among fatal diseases in the U.S. to sixth place; in Wilmington...
...north, where law enforcement is stricter and the S.P.C.A. more vigilant, public pits do not advertise, but they operate at Wheeling, W.Va., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Wilmington, Del., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and Frederick, Md. (where a cockfight was hijacked and its patrons reportedly robbed of almost $500,000). Across the South, big illegal pits run wide open, from Pass Christian, Miss, to Clovis, N.Mex...
Changes in the rules for 1948 will be announced tonight by the National Football Rules Committee now meeting on Wilmington Island near Savannah under the chairmanship of William J. Bingham '16, president of the H.A.A...
Married. Margaret Osborne, 29, homespun hazel-eyed tennist (seven times national women's doubles champion, 1947 Wimbledon singles titleholder); and William du Pont, 51, banker-sportsman; she for the first time, he for the second; in Wilmington...
Solid Consolidation. In Wilmington, Del., a U.S. district court approved the purchase of Los Angeles' Consolidated Steel Corp. by Columbia Steel Co., a U.S. Steel subsidiary. The Department of Justice had argued that the $8,000,000 deal would stop healthy competition in steel fabricating in the west (TIME, March 3), but the court could...