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...Thornton Wilder, Pulitzer 'prize winning playwright, will write Dunster House's Christmas play this year. Wilder wrote a series of "vaudeville blackouts" for the hundredth anniversary of the Century Club of New York, and he and other members of the House will rewrite these with a Dunster angle. He may also act in the production himself...
...Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will deliver four lectures this term. He will give the first of these one week from today, in the New Lecture Hall. The address is entitled "Adapting an Island Language to a Continental Thought...
...Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, and C> Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will head a group of six University teachers participating in an English conference today at Brandeis University in Waltham...
After hours of secret debate, they thought they had found just the man. He was Daniel I. J. Thornton, a colorful and energetic cattle raiser and state senator with some of the looks of Bing Crosby and some of his showman's flair. The choice was enough to perk up the despondent Republicans. It seemed at least to even the delicate balance between conservative Gene Millikin, the Senate's firm right bower to Ohio's Bob Taft, and Fair Dealing Congressman John Carroll, the Democrats' choice to unseat...
Adding to Thornton's statement, F.B.I. Special Agent Gordon stated that "over a period of years, there have been claims that the F.B.I. was making an investigation at Harvard. But if the matter is investigated carefully, it will be seen that these claims have been entirely unfounded...