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Delaware. Republican Senator John ("Whispering Willie") Williams, who was expected to have hard going against an opponent (Lieut. Governor Alexis I. Du Pont Bayard) with a wealthy political and financial background, surprised everyone. Williams' plurality(15,335) was more than twice the margin by which Dwight Eisenhower carried the state. Chief reason: citizens of Delaware heartily approved John Williams' successful campaign against corruption in the Bureau of Internal Revenue (TIME...
...Du Mont television network sought permission Monday to television the game in the New York area, along with this week's Yale-Princeton and Columbia-Navy games. The National Collegiate Athletic Association's TV committee, in rejecting the offer, said it was "amazed that the Du Mont network should endeavor to break down a program with which the network is thoroughly familiar...
...Delaware, Senator John ("Whispering Willie") Williams, the chicken-feed dealer who started the Internal Revenue Bureau scandal exposures, outran Lieut. Governor Alexis I. du Pont Bayard. Williams' standing as an exposer of corruption enabled him to overcome the formidable qualifications of Bayard, who comes from a direct line of five U.S. Senators (from his father to his great-great-great-grandfather), and whose mother is a du Pont...
Bounce Back. Although such bookkeeping and tax adjustments made comparison tricky, many of the gains reported last week were based on growing sales. For example, the giant Du Pont chemical empire in September had the best monthly sales in history ($146.7 million), and although its nine-months' earnings were off slightly ($3.26 v. $3.34), the third quarter showed a big rise, from 84? to $1.14. And General Motors was not only up for the quarter ($1.31 v. $1.01), but for the whole nine-month period...
This week Du Mont, Admiral Corp. and its advertising agency were struggling with the problem of how to manage the commercials on Life Is Worth Living. Present plans, according to a Du Mont spokesman: 'The bishop will open with his usual good evening. Then he will possibly say, 'And now a message from our sponsor,' and well cut away from him to do a one-minute, high-level, institutional commercial. There will be no commercial in the middle of the show and just a little direct sell at the end. When the last commercial is over...