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Died. Guy Pène du Bois, 74, Brooklyn-born Greenwich Village painter, art critic, autobiographer (Artists Say the Silliest Things), father of Painter Yvonne Pène du Bois and Writer-Illustrator William Pène du Bois, uncle of Broadway set and costume Designer Raoul Pène du Bois; of cancer; in Boston. With George Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Du Bois was an honor student in Robert Henri's pre-World War I Ashcan School of American art, i.e., realists. With his richly colored, firmly fleshed figures (Bal des Quatre Arts, Carnival Interlude), Du Bois...
...work a narrow emotional range, a failing of which he was conscious. He envied Wagner his heroic themes and majestic brasses, idolized Verdi's poetic tragedies, in later life even made an effort to understand the moderns (although on first hearing he thought Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps "the creation of a madman...
...from Du Pont last week came a new liquid gas dubbed Freon C-318. While the name was just so much gobbledygook to consumers, the gas itself may play a big part in their lives. If tests prove successful, C-318 will bring a vast expansion of the aerosol industry by making possible a big new pantry of liquid-gas-dispensed foods such as frostings, sandwich spreads, sauces and syrups. Until now, aerosol foods have been slowed by the fact that the liquid gases used in nonfood products have been ruled out by the Food and Drug Administration. (Compressed gases...
...first, few companies saw a commercial market for the aerosol cans because their welded steel walls, necessary to hold their high pressure, made them too heavy (1 lb.). But as Du Pont developed lower-pressure gases, the cans became much lighter, and the aerosol industry started to boom...
Chance for Small Business. The industry is still so new-and there are so many aerosol products yet to be developed-that many small businessmen are pouring into the field. For example, an Australian shepherd wrote to Du Pont about the problem of marking sheep to determine which ones had been vaccinated. So Du Pont developed an aerosol marker. Several hundred shepherds wrote the company to praise the new product, and now one of them plans to market the sheep...