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...year under study: 1948. Most adultery arrests: Boston, with 242. The others: Wilmington, Del. 16, Los Angeles four, Baltimore three, Duluth...
...news staff to the city room and announced the latest round. For one thing, there was a hole to fill on the staff. City Editor Fendall Yerxa, whose authority has gradually been sapped and his staff cut out from under him, had resigned to become executive editor of the Wilmington (Del.) News and Journal-Every Evening. Into his place Brownie put Luke Carroll, 39, veteran (13 years) Trib staffer and its onetime Chicago correspondent, who will also continue as news editor. Brownie had an even bigger announcement. He was pulling Trib Managing Editor Everett Walker, 48, off the daily paper...
...gifts were made public yesterday by Nicholas R. and Eugene duPont III, sons of the donor, at a luncheon meeting of the Harvard Club of Wilmington, Del. The three bequests will be distributed as follows...
Eugene duPont, a founder, the first secretary, and later president of the Harvard Club of Delaware, died last December at the age of 81. He served for many years as a director of the E. I. duPont de Nemours and Co. and of the Equitable Trust Co. of Wilmington, Del., and was active in Alumni affairs. In his lifetime, duPont helped to found a Harvard Club endowment fund to finance a freshman scholarship for a student from Delaware...
Vane Effect. In Wilmington, N.C., charged with drunkenness the day after he had been convicted of drunkenness and ordered to leave town, John Cartwright, 50, explained: "Every time I raised my good leg off the ground, the wind would come and spin me around; I had to take a drink to steady myself...