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...self-billed "Merchant of Venus," Walter Thornton ran one of the three biggest model agencies in the U.S. He claims to be the discoverer of Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Dorothy McGuire, Lizabeth Scott and Arlene Dahl, and the first to use the phrase "pinup girl." He also has shown a talent for getting publicity for Walter Thornton. Of modeling, he once said: "This business gets 1,000% more publicity than it deserves...
...Vatican announced that Giuseppe Sarto, who as Pius X was Pope from 1903 to 1914, will be canonized next May the 78th Pope to achieve sainthood, and the first since 1712.* ¶The Rev. Hubert Thornton Trapp, vicar of London's Anglican Church of St. Mary. Magdalene, challenged the Archbishop of Canterbury to "come out into the open" about Freemasonry. Declaring in his parish magazine that "the Christians' God and the Masons' God are not one and the same . . . the two loyalties are in conflict," he announced that he would bar any clergyman...
Said Governor Thornton: "These folks are a lost battalion." Something, he promised, would be done...
...five oldsters-four men and a woman-were not the sort to badger officials, but something had made them desperate. Last week they trooped into the office of Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton to present a special petition. "Governor," said one of the men, "I'll bet you a cowboy hat and a new pipe that you can't match this story any place...
...stars this time were also more propitious. Madam is a light philosophic fantasy, about equidistant between Saroyan and Thornton Wilder, yet with a flavor and philosophy of its own. It tells how, from a sense of guilt, Mary Doyle, the heiress daughter of "a Tammany grafter who died in Sing Sing," has turned recluse. Into her parlor steps persuasive Dr. Brightlee, whom the audience has no trouble identifying as the Devil. But this devil is for the most part on the side of the angels-on the side, at any rate, of the world's artists and individualists...