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...When Du Pont ran short of office space during World War II, its engineers designed a new L-shaped desk which was, in effect, a small semi-enclosed office. The desk had a 6-ft. partition attached to two sides, could be moved anywhere on an open floor. By grouping them judiciously, Du Pont found that it could save 30% of its floor space...
Last week, Du Pont, having decided that it didn't want to get into the furniture business, granted royalty-free licenses on its design to seven manufacturers. Among them: the Art Metal Construction Co. of Jamestown, N.Y. and the Globe-Wernicke Co. of Norwood, Ohio, one of the biggest U.S. makers of office furniture. But the first to market will probably be little Gunn Furniture Co. of Grand Rapids, Mich., which expects to be in production by next week, will try to sell the desks at $500 apiece...
...Korea's little flagship lay at one of Pearl Harbor's huge docks awaiting armament. All over her topsides officers and crewmen, dressed alike in greasy dungarees and broad smiles, were busy sprucing her up. "Almost one year we gave money for this ship," said the Bak Du-san's radio officer, Joung Won Sam. "We needed the money, but we needed this ship worse." His companion, the Bak Du-san's executive officer, nodded enthusiastically. "But we're going to keep up the contributions," he added. "If we get enough money...
...Daphne du Maurier's new novel (her first about contemporary life since 138's bestselling Rebecca) is so plumply padded with this sort of verbiage that it resembles a kind of composite morning & evening tummy-round, full, and yet flat as a board. Replete with bestselling ingredients. The Parasites is constructed on layer-cake lines, i.e., a chapter about the dismal present is sandwiched between two flashback chapters about the glamourous past. Three main characters, members of the Delaney family, take turns telling the story. All get their chance to report in a chapter how they were seduced...
Marguerite Steen or a Taylor Caldwell. Yet Author du Maurier, soap her bohemian loofah as she may, fails to froth up a single sud of glamour or blow one bubble of poignant sadness. Even the title she has chosen suggests that Author du Maurier may have felt like apologizing a bit for having run so much bath water to so little purpose...