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...Reducators' list--which names 68 faculty members as "Communists, Communist-sympathizers, or fellow-travelers"--died a quiet death yesterday in the hands of the City Solicitor. And at the same time, Joseph E. Thornton, Federal Bureau of Investigation chief in New England, announced that the "F.B.I. is not making and has not made an investigation of the subject of alleged subversive activities at Harvard...
...THORNTON N. WILDER (Yale '20) moved into his winter quarters in Dunster House last night after a drive up from New Haven. "My first interview must go to Dunster men," he said, in an early outburst of House spirit. (It looks as if the Funsters got to him early...
...Thornton N. Wilder, playwright and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, is expected in Cambridge tomorrow to help complete the casting of his Pulitzer prize-winning play, "Skin of Your Teeth," which the Dramatic Club is producing in November. Wilder will also help with the actual production work...
...highest-priced cattle breed. In the last 42 years Auctioneer Thompson has knocked down $250 million worth of cattle at more than 7,000 sales all over the U.S. His record $506,000 for a single day's selling, set at the auction of Colorado Rancher Dan Thornton's Hereford herd in 1947, still stands (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947), as does the $65,000 bid at which he sold the prize bull Baca Duke II last year. Only eight Hereford bulls have ever been sold for more than $50,000. Colonel Thompson has auctioned them...
Sleepless Nights. As an expert, Thompson convinced cattlemen that high-priced bulls were cheapest in the end, because of the vast improvement the animals made in their herds. He has collected as much as $90,000 in fees in a single year. (For the Thornton sale...