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...appear to be Maryland. This state (whose name escapes me) borders on Delaware for some 100 miles ... In character, speech, and appetites, its inhabitants are a shade more southern than Delaware's, which doubtless accounts for the differences your reviewer noted between my Barons and Delaware's Du Ponts...
Ellery Queen (Thurs. 9 p.m., Du Mont). A new thriller series...
Call her madam-or Madame Du Barry, or Panama Hattie, or Annie Oakley
Almost without exception, the major TV manufacturers denounced the FCC decision in favor of CBS. Board Chairman David Sarnoff of RCA labeled it "scientifically unsound and against the public interest." TV Pioneer Allen B. Du Mont snorted: "The decision just says to hell with the people who already own television sets." Pilot Radio Corp. threatened federal court action against FCC because it had "exceeded its jurisdiction." The Radio-Television Manufacturers Association called a special closed meeting on color TV, refused admittance to a CBS representative...
Died. John Jacob Raskob, 71, tycoon, onetime (1928-32) chairman of the Democratic National Committee; at his home near Centerville, Md. A cigarmaker's son who started out as a stenographer, Raskob arranged the deals that brought E. I. du Pont money into General Motors, became chairman of G.M.'s finance committee and a multimillionaire. An ardent Wet, he plunged into politics in '28 on behalf of his good friend and fellow Catholic Al Smith (until then he was a nominal Republican), wangled fat contributions to the Democratic cause, organized the National Committee publicity bureau that helped...