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Under draft age in World War I, Young got a job cutting smokeless powder at the Du Pont war plant at Carneys Point, NJ. at 28? an hour, ended up in the Du Pont treasurer's office in Wilmington. In 1920, having inherited $15,000 from his maternal grandfather, he moved to New York and went broke playing the market. He went to work for General Motors and was earning $35,000 a year as assistant treasurer when he left, in 1929, to become financial adviser to the late John J. Raskob, then top financial man at Du Pont...
...school kids at Mt. Pleasant Public School near Wilmington, Del., did not realize it, but they were guinea pigs in a new program in "preventive psychiatry," sponsored by the Delaware State Society for Mental Hygiene. The society's executive director, Colonel H. Edmund Bullis, prefers to call it "human relations in the classroom." His theory: psychiatrists spend their time straightening out maladjusted grownups; it is better to catch the youngsters before they get that way. Twenty-eight Delaware public schools have set up experimental classes in human relations...
Canada Lee, Negro pugilist-turned-actor, got into a wig and grease paint in Boston and made a little modern theatrical history by playing a white man's role opposite Star Elisabeth Bergner in The Duchess of Malfi. Critics' judgment: a success. In Wilmington, Del., history repeated itself: a theater manager disavowed racial prejudice but canceled The Duchess' engagement...
...time. By now, says Ferro, "it's all done by telepathy." Freed from his daily grind, Johnson is writing a book about Barnaby for publication in the fall. Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley, a play adapted by Johnson and Jerome Chodorov from the strip, will open in Wilmington next week, may get to Broadway in the fall...
...workers, Treasury and hospital employes. Last week, the Association's National Committee decided the time had come for national expansion; requests for information were coming in from potential chapters in other U.S. cities. This summer 61-year-old Chaplain Nesbitt plans to start things moving in Washington, D.C., Wilmington and Cape Cod while on "vacation" from his trim, tree-shaded St. Luke's Church in The Bronx. Alive to the perils of bigotry, Irish-Methodist Nesbitt unfailingly invites Catholics to St. George organization meetings, works in close collaboration with the Catholic police chaplain. Nevertheless, he earnestly says...