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Backstage at Denver's Coliseum one night last week, Dwight Eisenhower ran a hand over his bald head. "I want to be sure everything is on straight," he quipped. Then, as Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton boomed out an introduction, blue velvet curtains opened and the green Chevrolet convertible in which Ike sat rolled out on to the floor of the arena, made a half circle and came to a stop. Stepping briskly up the steps to the podium, Eisenhower began a speech which foreshadowed the kind of presidential campaign he hopes to make...
Amos Niven Wilder, professor of the New Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary, brother of Thornton...
Great Britain's, if not the world's, most elegant book of flower pictures is the Temple of Flora. First published in 1807, it brought fame and financial ruin to the man who conceived it. He was a well-heeled doctor named Robert Thornton, who spared no expense to make his book the most sumptuous of florilegia. He hired four obscure artists to paint the illustrations exactly as he wanted them, and then got some second-rate poets to apostrophize the plants in sticky verse. Now the London firm of William Collins has reissued the Temple...
...Thornton, whose botany was not so sharp as his sense of the picturesque, insisted that his artists give each flower a romantically appropriate setting: Dutch meadows for the tulips, mountain heights for the kalmia, a forbidding coast for the American cowslip, a gothic midnight for the night-blowing cereus. If the results have more period charm than truth-to-nature, it is partly because flowers are among the most difficult challenges a painter can pick. Flowers are delicate as eyelids, complex as blood vessels, vital as fire, and their colors make paint look muddy by comparison. Yet artists-an ambitious...
...Thornton Niven Wilder, novelist, playwright .................... Litt.D...