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...largest gifts received so far are $300,000 each from Lament du Point Copeland '27 and Henry. L. Shattuck '01. The contributions mark the start of the first drive to increase endowment funds in any U. S. School of education in 30 years...
...Finder. An X-ray machine that shows up tiny insects in stored grain was announced by du Pont. Using the machine, one man can inspect 80 grain samples a day, v. 25 to 50 samples with the old method of cracking open kernels and floating the particles in mineral oil or gasoline. Price: $2,300 for X-ray unit and darkroom equipment...
...might well be able to cut its prices substantially. But G.M., with 46% of the entire auto market already, might thus increase its share to 50% or 55% and drive the independents out of business. Under such circumstances, G.M., already under investigation by the trustbusters for its ties to Du Pont, might face an antitrust suit on charges that it sold too cheaply. (The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. is now on trial on charges, in effect, that it sold too cheaply, thus drove competitors out of business...
...ingredients of Almanac are the revue staples--satiric sketches, comic monologues, and production numbers. Even more stubbornly than the usual revue, however, the show makes no attempt to tie them with a cohesive thread. The only common elements of the scenes are the superb settings by Pene Du Bois and Thomas Becher, innocuous and infinitely forgettable music by a dozen composers, and a general sophistication which often seems precious. Particularly expressive of these three elements are a "Ballet Ballad" from a story by Oscar Wilde and the opening number, pretentiously invoking the Spirit of Theatre and dull musically, yet striking...
...giving advance notice of the new policy on the Du Mont network's TV panel show, The Big Issue, Hagerty found himself under fire. His attacker: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Washington Correspondent Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, who was still smarting over the Warren leak (TIME, Oct. 12). "The information order relates to the classification of documents," said Brandt, "[which] gave us very little trouble under the Truman Administration." Even if a document had been classified, he argued, newsmen had ready access to Government officials who would give the information they wanted. "The present Administration," said Brandt, "[seems...