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...Frigid Fluid Co. of Chicago advertises: "NEW! NEW! NEW! Lanol-Tex Arterial Fluid . . . Nature's Own Way to Soft Skin Texture," which "restores the same condition to the skin as during life." Boasts the Gold Crest Chemical Corp. of Wilmington, Del.: "Everybody is talking about Rubin-X Jaundice Dual Injection Fluids," which give "a gentle and fast-bleaching action with no spotting." If not satisfactory, "you may return to us for full credit after embalming your first case...
Launched last fall, the 30-hour course ($1.50) is so successful that Teacher Wood plans to open branches this fall in Atlanta, Minneapolis and New York City. Last week, having already taught some 1,250 students in Washington, she had a long list of glowing testimonials. A Wilmington librarian actually hit 20,000 w.p.m. Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge calls his improvement "fantastic," says that setting up the technique in all Georgia schools "would be worth a $1,000,000-a-year appropriation." Predicts one of five fascinated General Electric engineers, who are now analyzing the method...
...serious business of integration," said Federal District Court Judge Caleb Layton III last year to school officials in Delaware. He ordered grade-a-year desegregation over the next twelve years. Some 46% of Delaware's 77,000 public-school children now attend integrated schools (mainly around Northern-oriented Wilmington). But last week Negro parents, who contend that the pace is still painfully slow in the rest of Delaware, won a significant ruling from the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. By a 2-to-1 vote, the court struck down Judge Layton's cautious plan...
Described by the authors as "a kaleidoscopic cross-section of representative forms of American life," the play focuses about the life of John Ward Moorehouse, born in Wilmington, Delaware, on the Glorious Fourth. He grows up to become J. Ward Moorehouse, public relations counsel, and U.S.A. surrounds his story with those of others who enter into his life, and with a variety of historical material: biographies of figures from the period--the Wright brothers, Eugene V. Debs, Rudolph Valentino, Henry Ford, the Unknown Soldier among others--songs, dances, newspaper headlines and stories, stream-of consciousness narrative of actual events...
...Second biggest: $100,000 each from the Walter S. Carpenter family of Wilmington and the Henry Luce Foundation...