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...Producer Jed Harris may put on the long-promised Thornton Wilder play, Emporium, a story of a symbolic department store; Harris will also direct Paddy Chayefsky's prize ring drama, Fifth from Garibaldi...
...Here & there around the country were others, not so well known beyond their state lines, who were heroes to the home folks, and adept at political infighting. Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, the man who nominated Eisenhower at Chicago, was a seaboard internationalist; Colorado's popular Dan Thornton was a western conservative. Together they reppresented the limits of the Eisenhower faith, but both were enthusiastic Ikemen and both could be counted on to spread the word...
...Texas,' said Thornton, a tone of contempt in his voice, 'we call that lynching, not justice...
...Tell him,' said the Tiger, pointing to Thornton, 'he must turn about...
...Lieutenant Cordus H. Thornton was on parade. His shoulders squared, head up, chin in, arms firmly at his sides, he about-faced as one does during drill. The Tiger took a handkerchief and bound Lieutenant Thornton's eyes. Then with his pistol he shot him in the back of the neck. A tall, blond sergeant jumped forward and caught his officer's body before it touched the ground. Tenderly, as if carrying a child, the sergeant took the lieutenant's body to the ditch...