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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois did more than any other Negro to challenge Washington's leadership and to give democracy a meaning in the twentieth century that conforms to that of Douglass in 1889. In The Souls of Black Folk, 1903, he gave a restrained but trenchant criticism of the Washington school of thought and advocated the right to vote, civic equality and the education of youth according to ability. "By every civilized and peaceful method," he urged, "we must strive for the rights which the world accords to men, clinging unwaveringly" to the great words of the Declaration...
...rivals, Julia started out as an actress. Born in Boston, she was encouraged by her mother, Caroline Meade-who once trouped with Walter Hampden -to go to the Yale Drama School. When she went job-hunting in Manhattan in 1948, the only work she could get was at the Du Mont TV studio in Wanamaker's department store. She moved into network TV on the giveaway show, Winner Take All ("I gave away prizes, acted in sketches and just sort of filled in"), and did her first regular commercials as emcee of NBC's Embassy Club...
...made more than $700,000 in salary and bonus last year. Best paid: General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice with $776,400. Second was Bethlehem Steel Chairman Eugene G. Grace with $705,923, and third G.M.'s Board Chairman Albert Bradley with $701,525. Right behind was Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt, whose $642,619 came from a $178,619 salary and a whopping $464,000 bonus. A few notches lower, Chrysler Corp. President L. L. Colbert picked up a $249,800 bonus for boosting car sales, thus doubling...
...when his war baby needed funds to keep going, Laurance Rockefeller and Felix du Pont Jr. quickly came forward, exchanging some $500,000 for 51% of the stock. Flatteringly, they decided to change the company's name from P-V Engineering Forum to Piasecki Helicopter, kept Piasecki on as president...
...unwrapped a bundle of startling innovations. At the American Management Association's 25th annual packaging exposition in Atlantic City, N.J., 388 manufacturers of packaging materials and equipment showed off their latest lures to catch the U.S. shopper's eye. The lures have to be strong; researchers at Du Pont calculate that a package in a supermarket has as little as 20 seconds to stop a passing customer. Among the stoppers: ¶Martinis and Manhattans sealed in packages of Du Font's transparent Mylar...