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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...
...From Wilmington, Delaware, Stephenson was made director of Publicity and editor of the H.A.A. news on September 1, 1939 and was named assistant to the Director of Athletics last fall. He wrote anywhere from two to six articles in the average H.A.A. News, using varying by-lines--Silas French, Arthur Palmer, and even Tom Stephenson...
...Hercules Powder Co. of Wilmington was assigned Patent No. 2,228,309 for an artillery gunpowder which is smokeless, moisture-resistant and flashless. Other such powders have been developed but they are complicated, costly, hard to handle. The new powder contains only three ingredients: nitrocellulose, dinitrotoluene, diphenylamine. These are treated with an alcohol-acetone solvent, mixed, squirted out in strands like spaghetti, finally pulverized to grain size...
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...
Beacom College Wilmington...