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...character in the story is ten-year-old Emily Thornton (well played by eleven-year-old Abby Bonime), a secretive, imaginative youngster capable-with no villainous intentions-of both coldblooded treachery and hysterical murder...
Psychologist George R. Thornton of Purdue University photographed 20 men & women with glasses and without. Then he paired the pictures and tried them on 200 judges. The subjects made a better impression wearing glasses than bareface...
...Thornton Wilder at his best is always a little different, and "The Skin of Our Teeth" is Wilder at his best, both different and good. The play is sort of a madhouse, with dinosaurs and a Salvation Army band, floods and Atlantic City conventions all rolled into a strange combination of entertainment and philosophical drama...
...second of the two appointees, who also helped to fill vacancies erosted by the transfer of Major William D. Thornton, Infantry, to another War Department assignment on the Eastern Seaboard, is First Lieutenant John K. Darling, C.E. He will be the new School Supply officer...
...Garbo" was David Selznick's epithet for his new property. The hard-veined, soft-souled gentlemen of the press felt differently. There was something about Miss Bergman-they clawed the air for adequate words-which made them coo and baa like fatuous old uncles. "Lunching with her," sighed Thornton Delehanty, "is like sitting down to an hour or so of conversation with a charming and highly intelligent orchid." An A.P. feature writer uttered the glad cry, "As unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowfall." Bosley Crowther in the Times, after some startling lyricism involving a Viking's sweetheart, Ivory...