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Familiar to most U. S. blasphemers is the ballad about the Biblical football game played on Christmas Day in St. Peter's old back yard. Last week before an eminently respectable audience-a father-&-son dinner in Brandywine Methodist Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del.- Football Coach Harvey John Harmanof the University of Pennsylvania picked a Biblical football team he would have liked to coach. The lineup...
...makes a magnesium alloy that is one-third lighter than aluminum and good for airplane and machinery parts. At Marquette, Mich., on Lake Superior, a subsidiary called Cliffs Dow Chemical Co., in which the parent company has a 60% interest, makes charcoal, combustible gases and acids from wood. Near Wilmington, N. C., on the Atlantic Ocean, a big plant extracts bromine from the sea, manufactures ethylene dibromide for use in antiknock gasolines. Partner on a 50-50 basis in this venture is Ethyl Gasoline Corp., which uses the entire output of the seaside plant. For the last fiscal year...
...Julius David Stern's rampantly pro-New Deal Philadelphia Record, spectacled Gerald Aloysius ("Jerry") Doyle flays the Big Interests daily for the edification of some 328,222 readers. Last week one Doyle drawing particularly tickled none other than Eugene (Liberty League) du Pont, millionaire munitions manufacturer of nearby Wilmington, Del., whose daughter Ethel is to marry Franklin Roosevelt Jr. in June. The cartoon that delighted Mr. du Pont showed young Roosevelt as Romeo beneath a balcony festooned with elephant-cupids on which a "Juliet du Pont" (see cut) declaimed: "Tis but thy name that is my enemy. . . . What...
Franklin Roosevelt, equally active, sped from Washington to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor (see p. 27), made a triumphal 30-mi. tour of the city, swung back through Wilkes-Barre and other Pennsylvania towns, to Camden, N. J., Wilmington and Washington, only to start again, reinvade Brooklyn, have his hour upon the platform in Madison Square Garden, and finally go home up the Hudson...
Saturday afternoon at 12:30 a transatlantic debate was held between Harvard and Cambridge on the question; "Resolved, that national economic problems can be solved without international cooperation." Jerome D. Greene '96, Director of the Tercentenary, introduced Thomas W. Stephenson '37 of Wilmington, Delaware, who spoke for the affirmative, and R. Leonard Miall a senior at St. John's College, Combridge, who spoke for the negative...