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...King's Men. The same group of men then got up, walked across the street to the Café des Deux Magots, and awarded the Prix des Deux Magots, sponsored by the owners of the café, to Jean Masares for his Comme le pélican du-désert. Over on the Right Bank that same afternoon the editors of the newspaper Parisien Libéré were awarding its Prix de la Vérité to a book reporting bad conditions in French hospitals. The Prix Scarron for books of humor went to Ernestine Gilbreth...
...most of whose lives were deeply rooted in the region, including the entire towns of Ellenton (pop. 900), Dunbarton (pop. 250), Snelling (pop. 800), and Jackson (pop. 100) learned that they had to move from a 375-square-mile area in which the plant would be located. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. planned to have an 8,000-man construction crew in the area early next year; some families would have to move within 60 days, all had to be gone in 18 months...
...while it looked as if TV might escape the daily soap opera. Du Mont, after five sponsorless months, dropped A Woman to Remember. In a one-month sustaining run, NBC was unable to sell These Are My Children. But this week, with Procter & Gamble's The First Hundred Years (weekdays 2:30 p.m., CBS-TV), commercial daytime soap opera put a determined toe in the television door...
...du Pont de Nemours & Co., which netted $218.6 million compared to $135.9 million in the first nine months of 1949, declared a year-end dividend of $2.25, making a total of $5.35 per share in 1950, or $1.95 more than last year...
...Christiana Securities Co., the Du Fonts' family holding company, which owns more than 27% of Du Font's common stock, paid a year-end dividend of $174.25, bringing the total for the year to $407.25 v. $258.60 in 1949. Price of Christiana stock: $5,400 a share...