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...Du Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A dark chapter in a Member of Parliament's past prevents him from receiving a Cabinet appointment. Jack Hawkins, Pamela Brown. Repeat...
...Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier...
...Rows for a Bad One. It was the first decade of the 20th century that gave birth to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1905, the brilliant but eccentric Dr. William E. B. Du Bois,* one of the founders of the American Negro Academy, set up a narrowly based protest group of Negro elite known as the Niagara Movement (its first meeting was held near Niagara Falls in 1905). Declared Du Bois: "We claim for ourselves every right that belongs to a freeborn American-political, civil and social-and until we get these rights, we will...
...Donald Stewart Leas Jr., will have a huge party in Southampton; Cynthia Phipps, daughter of horsy Investment Banker Ogden Phipps, will entertain 1,000 guests with Lester Lanin's music on Long Island Sept. 9; and two days before that, Mr. and Mrs. Irénée Du Pont Jr. will throw one of the season's biggest balls at their Wilmington, Del., estate for their debutante daughter Irene...
Some keener competition is abuilding for Merrill Lynch. Francis I. du Pont, Wall Street's fastest growing brokerage house (92 branches), last week announced plans to acquire Chicago's A. C. Allyn & Co. (24 branches). The du Pont firm was set up in 1931 by Francis du Pont, a great-grandson of Eleuthère Iréneé du Pont, founder of the Du Pont chemical empire, and grew big by catering to Wilmington's richest carriage trade. Now headed by Francis' son, Edmond du Pont, 57, the firm long ago broadened its sights beyond...