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...COUSIN RACHEL (348 pp.)-Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday...
...coming British officer named Frederick Browning* confided to a boat builder in the late '30s that he hoped to buy a boat if his wife's next book turned out a success. No man ever had a sounder basis for hope. His wife is Novelist Daphne du Maurier, and the book she was working on was called Rebecca...
...experimental substation near Lubbock. The first sample of 2,4,5-T for tests on mesquite ("just enough to put in your hat") was delivered to him in 1945 by Dow Chemical Co. Later American Chemical Paint, which holds the original patent on 2,4,5-T, and Du Pont joined in. Today all three firms manufacture the chemical. Fisher started testing it on 80 five-acre plots, went on to larger areas which he sprayed from a plane at leafing time. In three to ten days, the leaves yellowed. The following year the mesquite failed to leaf again...
Quick-Dry. A new quick-drying wall paint for undercoating called "Sealer-Coater" was put on the market by Du Pont. It comes in white only (but may be tinted), dries in less than two hours under normal conditions so that another coat can quickly be painted over it. Price per gallon...
Down You Go (Fri. 9 p.m., Du Mont). A literate and frequently amusing quiz show...