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...weather was broiling hot. It was just two years ago, in similar weather, that the first brigade of Marines arrived at Pusan to help hold the allied beachhead. Last spring the division, now commanded by Major General John T. Selden, was due to go into reserve. But Selden, a tall, sharp-eyed Virginian who enlisted as a Marine private in 1915, asked General Van Fleet to keep the division fighting. Van Fleet agreed, and assigned the Marines to the Panmunjom sector, astride the invasion route from Pyongyang to Seoul...
...antitrust and patent infringement suit against Ford Motor Co., its subsidiary, Dearborn Motors Corp., Henry Ford II and other Ford officials. Ferguson was right; his suit turned out to be the biggest legal battle in the auto industry since 1911, when old Henry Ford himself successfully broke the famed Selden patent...
...Issued in 1895 to George B. Selden, a lawyer and inventor, the patent was so broad it apparently covered every gasoline-driven car, even though Selden himself never built one. Virtually every U.S. automaker paid 1½% of his sales in royalties to the owner, until Ford, in 1908, sent word: "Selden can take his patent and go to hell." After eight years of court fights, Ford proved the patents invalid...
Perspectives' "pilot" issue is a handsome, 236-page slick-paper job with a full-color abstract design on the cover. Inside are reprints of articles by Selden Rodman, Meyer Schapiro, Thornton Wilder and others, poetry by Archibald MacLeish and Robert Lowell, and fiction by William Faulkner. The pilot issue, foundation officials explained, is not an exact standard by which to judge Perspectives; only about half the pilot articles will be in the first issue. Nevertheless, the pilot issue gave the whole project-unless substantially changed-the flavor of a "little magazine's" fragile view of American culture, blown...
Yale's annual Summer School of Alcohol Studies will be held from July 6 to 31, Selden D. Bacon, director of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies announced yesterday...