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...DU PONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A man whose son died in a German extermination camp hires an Englishman (John Mills) to hound a former Nazi (Curt Jurgens) when he leaves prison after serving 15 years for war crimes. Color...
...dimension of this accomplishment is extraordinary because the French do not generally comprehend American musicals. The last one to open in translation there was Annie Get Your Gun (Annie du Far-Ouest) in 1950, and it flopped. Paris audiences expect the pressed sugars of operetta when they go to light musical theater, and they are never quite up to story lines and sociology in song. When the movie version of The King and I arrived in Paris, the theater was all but empty until the exhibitor cut all the music out of the picture; then audiences in sizable quantity began...
Fads & Impulse. The best hope of the industry is the young man between 14 and 24. For one thing, he spends much more money on adornment than his father ever did; a recent survey by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. shows that the average college man spent $387 on clothes last year, compared with only $265 for members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, who were 15 years older on the average. For another thing, the young man is apt to be fad-prone...
Among corporations, General Electric holds the most (12,000), followed by A.T. & T., RCA, Esso, Westinghouse and Du Pont. The individuals who hold the most patents are also connected with corporations: Raytheon Scientist Percy Spencer alone holds 225, and Polaroid's chairman, Dr. Edwin Land, has well over...
...directors of small companies tend to be dominated by the president or controlling owner, who has a board because state laws require it and who packs it with his pals. A few giants, notably Standard Oil (N.J.), have completely "inside" boards consisting of only their own executives, and Du Pont has a "proprietary" board in which family members and other large stockholders predominate. But most leading companies choose a majority of outside directors and give them a large voice in policy...