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...better put Tex Thornton." Berges was not in California long before he shared that view and began to think of Thornton as an eventual TIME cover subject. His nearly three years of watching the dramatic progress of Tex Thornton and Litton Industries, plus long interviews with the industrialist on horseback trips through the mountains outside Los Angeles, provided the bulk of the material for Writer Everett Martin and Senior Editor Edward L. Jamieson in putting together this week's cover story on one of the most remarkable executives in the world...
...several hours he rode, traversing mountain and valley, following deer trails and nudging his horse skillfully along rocky paths. Occasionally, he crunched out a cigarette on a heavy leather glove worn as a horseback ashtray, or reined his mount to a halt and gazed out over the green valleys below...
This was no performer re-creating the Old West, but the boss of a huge and exciting corporation that is dedicated to a relentless pursuit of the future. He is Charles Bates Thornton, 50, the chairman of California-based Litton Industries-and he was busy on horseback at the most important facet of his job: thinking. When "Tex" (he came from a small Texas town) Thornton has a problem to mull over, he finds that he does his best thinking on a solitary 30-or 40-mile ride through the mountains, where he can "look at the world down there...
...Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, agnostics, or even Communists-make a common claim on the Catholic Pope: they feel that they have a right to an audience with him. And Popes have always responded, each in his own way. The languid Leo X of the Renaissance grandly received his subjects on horseback while at the hunt, and Pius IX had his own railway car to make whistlestop visits through the papal states. The general audiences of the ascetic Pius XII were like an encounter with a saint. John XXIII's were folksy-until sickness and duty made him give them...
...engulfed the family castle, Friedrichstein, in East Prussia, its chatelaine joined the German underground, made regular weekly clandestine trips to Berlin, and played a role in many an assassination plot against Hitler. At war's end, after the partition of Germany, the Grafin traveled to Hamburg on horseback, a 500-mile journey that took her two months...