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...Returning to grass after a disappointing Derformance in the National Clay Courts championship in Chicago, New York's Althea Gibson got back in form, beat Margaret Osborne du Pont 6-1, 6-4 at the Vlerion Cricket Club to win the women's Pennsylvania and Eastern States tennis championship, most important U.S. title of her career...
...Streetcar Named Desire, the program's piece de resistance, revealed the company's great aptitude for the modern ballet-dance. Miss Kaye, who is today's formost exponent of dramatic roles, danced the part of Blanche Du Bois with all the neurotic and confused passion that the role embodies. Kriza was an excellent Stanley, primitive and animal-like in his simple world. Christine Mayer danced the faithful Stella and Scott Douglas the confused, well-intending Mitch...
With the high cost of doing business, top sales sometimes were not enough to guarantee top profits. Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. scored a sales record for its first quarter, but earnings slumped 4% to $25.5 million, partially because of higher wages and freight rates. Du Pont's net from chemicals dropped slightly as a result of the belt-tightening in textiles and autos...
Last week, it was the French Canadians' turn to take top billing. Twelve players from Montreal's Théâtre du Nouveau Monde turned in crackling, rapid-fire performances of three Molière one-act plays. Most of their audience was English-speaking, but the French actors' skilled miming as they romped through the Molière farces got the meaning across. The addition of the French plays and French style to the Stratford program was hailed not only as a theatrical coup, but also as a rare illustration of Canada's dual culture...
...Du Pont compiles its annual research budget according to the cost, duration and number of all approved projects, usually spends about 3.5% of sales (1955 research budget: $70 million). Even so, few research ventures last the course. One-third of the studies undertaken by Du Pont's chemical department are "laboratory flops"; 50% are successful in the lab but prove impractical for production; less than 10% goes to a manufacturing division for development, and only a small fraction of these ever goes into production. RCA estimates that 90% of its research ideas are useless; from the other 10% come...