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...Wilmington, Del. is famed as the seat of the du Pont plants and patriarchy. New Castle, six miles south, an ancient and lovely architectural museum whose inhabitants still benefit from the 1,068 acres William Penn deeded them in 1701, occasionally makes a little news paragraph when the warden of the county jail legally uses his cat-o'-nine-tails on a darky chicken thief. Thirty-eight miles still farther south in Delaware is an important little town almost never heard of: Dover, founded in 1717 by William Penn on the St. Jones River...
...America" and "All-American"; 3) that though correct in the instance he cited (calling Bill Corbus "Stanford's All-American guard"-TIME, Nov. 20), TIME has in other instances erred in the use of "All-American"; 4) that at least one TIME-reader (C. H. McWilliams of Wilmington, Ohio) perceived Purist Hill's concealed point. For purity's sake, therefore, TIME acknowledges at least a safety scored against it, awards subscriptions to the unbeaten Princeton freshmen and their Coach Johnny Gorman at no cost to Purist Hill, whose determination to "trick" TIME (he now reveals) was formed...
...Sagaciously he has made no appearance to the public outside the administering of oath of office to President Roosevelt, which was his duty. And finally he has in my opinion cooperated with the present administration by weighing the element of time against its perpetual offspring -change. C. H. McWlLLIAMS Wilmington. Ohio Sirs...
...Presbyterian ministers belong. Unabashed by the trouncing administered them at the last Presbyterian General Assembly (TIME, June 5), the Fundamentalists proclaimed they are holding their line, unanimously nominated as their candidate for moderator at next Assembly Rev. Dr. Harold S. Laird, 42, pastor of First & Central Presbyterian Church, Wilmington...
Married. Lammot du Pont, 53, board chairman of General Motors Corp., president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; and Margaret A. Flett, Wilmington clubwoman; in Wilmington. His first three wives: Natalie D. Wilson (died); Bertha Taylor (died); Caroline Hynson Stollen-werck (divorced...