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...discovering that the Ithacans aren't in the same league with such teams as DU and Brown, the Crimson players were only able to make close battles out of two of the nine matches...
Like every big business and many small ones, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. was worried about the "problem drinker." Absenteeism and inefficiency had made it the company's problem as well as the drinker's.† Five years ago, Du Pont put a man known only as "Dave" on the payroll. He was a former tennis pro who had quit drinking, thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous. In Detroit last week, Dr. G. H. Gehrmann, Du Pont medical director, told a meeting of industrial physicians how Alcoholics Anonymous-and men like Dave-could help companies cure their dipsomaniacs...
Dave started out at Du Pont's Wilmington, Del. headquarters as "special assistant to the medical department." Whenever Dr. Gehrmann encountered an alcoholic, he put Dave and A.A. to work. In 65% of the cases, they succeeded. Today a third of the members of A.A.'s Wilmington chapter are Du Pont employees...
Said Dr. Gehrmann: "There are now A.A. units-some of them, to be sure, started independently of Du Pont-in 52 places where there are Du Pont plants or offices . . . Furthermore, A.A. has rehabilitated the wives of some of our important people...
...managed to produce such unexpected specimens as Humorist Gelett Burgess and Author Stuart Chase. But M.I.T.'s alumni are more apt to be of another sort: Donald Douglas of Douglas Aircraft, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, Gerard Swope of General Electric, and at least ten Du Fonts...