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...Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will discuss his play "Our Town" at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the New Lecture Hall. Ivy Films, which is sponsoring the program, will later show the movie version of the play...
WXHR, a FM "good music station" that broadcasts during the evening, has come up with the most successful solution. Manager John Thornton refuses to "box" his programs with time breaks and holds the advertising down to ninety seconds per hour of music. Public response to this mature advertising policy has been more than satisfactory; in six months of operation the station has become self-supporting...
Because WXHR limits itself to a small staff, the atmosphere at its Mt. Zion transmitter is one of informality. Manager Thornton's announcing costume consists of a red lumberjack shirt and engraved cowboy boots. In contrast with this, there is a formidable battery of technical equipment. Last Thursday night, for instance, they used a special recorder from the MIT Accoustic Laboratories to broadcast the New England Philharmonic. Because of WXHR's technical quality and sound advertising policy it has a good chance of staying in business. If listeners fail to maintain the station by supporting its advertisers, it will...
Other guest speakers at future meetings will include William Van Leunes Curator of the Theatre Collection. Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Orctory...
...Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, has been moved from Stillman Infirmary to Massachusetts General Hospital for further treatment of a three-week old injury to his sacroiliac. Wilder's new doctor, Edwin F. Cave, clinical associate in Orthopaedic Surgery, reported last night that his patient's condition is improving...