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...anxiety until, under the pressure of conflicts and suspicions that are not clearly described, he grew increasingly morbid, tormented his wife with his nervousness. Meanwhile his mother had died, his talented brother had gone through a cycle of bitter conflicts and his father, old Dr. Chastain, had prospered in Wilmington without making an adjustment with his environment. Charles returned to the U. S., recovered his sanity when he met Terry Mullikan again, fell in love with her. Back in Virginia with her, he studied medicine, prepared to take the University post his father had missed years before...
...could afford to buy in the 1,100 shares of Journal stock which Mr. Nieman left in trust. The Xieman trust represents 55% of the paper's controlling interest. Of the remaining 900 shares, Mr. Grant already owns 400, while 500 are held by Mrs. Susan Boyd of Wilmington, Del., widow of a onetime Journal business manager. The Grant plan would create a treasury stock pool of 650 shares which only employes would be eligible...
Thomas Wilson Stephenson, of Wilmington, Delaware, resident of Lewell House...
...Peck's Bad Boy or Huckleberry Finn were to cut his swath through a U. S. school today, he would probably get off with a restrained scolding. In most of the nation's schools, use of the corrective rod is prohibited by law. New York City. Chicago, Wilmington and Washington forbid all forms of corporal punishment in their educational systems. Erring moppets in Minneapolis, Omaha. El Paso and Providence may be chastised only with parental consent. Teachers in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. are not allowed to pull pupils' ears. In New Orleans they are expressly enjoined...
...Upsala, shy, black-eyed, Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Theodor Svedberg, 50, perfected two new rotors in which at normal operating speed a dime would press against the wall with a force of half a ton. One rotor he kept. The other he sent to the du Pont research laboratories at Wilmington, Del. There last week Dr. Elmer Otto Kraemer put the machine through its paces for a group of scientists and newshawks...