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...grave," says Thornton Wilder, "they will write: 'Here lies a man who tried to be obliging.' " And he gives a nervous bark of laughter-the laugh, slightly louder than the occasion warrants, of a man accustomed to putting strangers at their ease...
...Interior, a Westerner was almost inevitable since Interior's most important sphere of action is in the West (power development, conservation, etc.). An early possibility was Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado. Eisenhower advisers remembered the feud between Colorado and Arizona and California over division of the Colorado River water, advised against a Colorado man. Ike chose Oregon's Governor Douglas McKay, whom he had met during his campaign in the Northwest and liked for his independence and common sense...
...SECRETARY OF INTERIOR: 1) Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton, a close Ike friend; 2) Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie...
Colorado: Dan Thornton...
...example, in 1949-50, Paul Hindemith taught Music 275--The History of Theory. Thornton Wilder gave the second half of Humanities 2 in 1950-51, and last year Aaron Copland taught Music 121--Music in the Twenties...