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...McLanghlin Lasell Robert L. Ware '50 Alice Warner Wellesley Bennett C. Wilson '50 Diane Grubler Wellesley James F. D'Wolf, Jr. '50 Dickie Vernon White Plains Theodore F. Wolff '50 Evelyn laSon New York John F. Wood '50 Anne Jeffrey Endicott Thomas S. Woods, 3rd '50 Laura Wilson Radcliffe Thornton W. Willett '50 Doris Chambers Bryn Mawr Hastings K. Wright '50 Heloise Pike Colby John E. Wyat '50 Winne Mann Smith Robert M. Young '49 Hannah Blanfox Hunter N. T. Zervas '50 Jacie Van Blarcom Mass. State Melvin L. Zurier '50 Charlotte Braidy Bangor Harold Zirin '50 Joanne Cohan Connecticut
...took him just one month to organize the company which had operated Lone Star for the Government. U.S. Steel made Carpenter move even faster. He promptly rounded up his old Lone Star Steel associates-ranchers, oilmen, bankers. There was Robert L. Thornton, the boisterous, robust president of Dallas' third largest (Mercantile National) bank. Once a sharecropper, Thornton describes himself as "a mule in carriage harness," has pushed through some notable projects (e.g., a 33-story skyscraper erected in Dallas during the war) with the exhortation: "Put on the collar and hamestring...
Next to modern escapist drama, voters signified a desire for modern tragedy, as Eugene O'Nell placed third in the playwright preferences of the interviewees. Behind O'Nell followed Noel C. Coward, Henrick Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Maxwell Anderson, Clifford Odets, Anton Chekov, and Thornton Wilder. stated, "There was an almost intense monotony of response, which may perhaps be indicative of the stereotyped taste pattern of American audiences in general, and more particularly a definite escapist sentiment...
...street had the last word. Unasked, one N. H. Partridge of Thornton Heath, Surrey, put three names in nomination: Henry Wallace, "the man who faced America"; Albert Einstein, "for trying"; and Anon., "a child born recently who will be the last survivor of Europe, which . . . will have become a vast, slightly radioactive wilderness, entirely devoid of human life...
...spite of his way with women, Shelley is thought of-and was considered in his own day-as a somewhat effeminate character. But of his looks just before he died, Thornton Hunt gave this testimony: "The outline of the features and face possesses firmness and hardness entirely inconsistent with a feminine character. . . ." Biographer Blunden finds it regrettable that no portrait of Shelley except the very young and rather girlish one by Amelia Curran has survived. To Blunden, Shelley exemplifies "the supreme capacity called genius...