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COLOR TV will come close to meeting black-and-white price levels next year, predicts Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories. Du Mont has signed royalty contract to make Lawrence color tube developed by Chromatic Television Laboratories (50% owned by Paramount Pictures), plans to bring it out at factory price of less than $50, some 30% cheaper than current R.C.A. tube. New tube, says Du Mont, will simplify color sets, cut retail prices to around $340 for 22-in. color set v. $495 for cheapest 21-in. color set currently on market, and about $200 for comparable black-and-white model...
Wiley turned on a vigorous campaign, handing out his card to people in the streets, flattering the ladies. Once, at the Leyse Aluminum Co. plant in Kewaunee, he genially seized a labor union leader, waltzed him around the floor, singing, "Du, Du, liegst mir im herzen," as factory workers chimed in with "Ja, ja, ja, ja." Davis, meanwhile, turned on an equally dynamic but better-financed campaign, got in his share of the stop-and-shake technique...
...woman becomes a supervisor, we urge him to get into civic work. We believe it is part of good leadership to be a good citizen." Such giants as IBM, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, American Telephone & Telegraph, National Cash Register, all encourage employees to take on public tasks; at Du Pont so many executives are active that the company makes a point of cautioning them to "participate in, but not dominate" Delaware's civic projects...
...Hambletonian at Goshen's Good Time Park, and finished eleventh. But in the next two tours of the track, The Intruder waltzed home from far back to take the $100,604 stake. Next day the Hambletonian Society announced that it was moving the "Wagon Horse" classic to the Du Quoin, Ill. State Fair...
When liberty seemed mainly the preoccupation of a few French philosophers and the dissident American colonials, a millionaire nobleman called Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, gave up his title and pledged his sword to make room for it on the earth. With that pledge and sword, he won a secure place in the pantheon of American heroes. What the French think of him is a more complicated matter. As depicted by his most recent biographers, Maurice de la Fuye and Emile Babeau. the French hero of U.S. schoolboys was himself a schoolboy...