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Rationale. In Elberton, Ga., Judge C. B. Thornton asked a groom what bride's name he should write on the marriage license. Said the groom: "Leave that blank. . . . I heard that licenses were going to be rationed. . . . I'm courting two women and I don't know which...
...only one-The Eve of St. Mark-dealt seriously with the war; only three others-The Patriots, Harriet and Tomorrow the World-dealt seriously with anything. Entertainment held the field. Thornton Wilder's cockeyed The Skin of Our Teeth started ten thousand arguments, sold a quarter of a million seats and won the Pulitzer Prize. Oklahoma!, musicomedy's least orthodox offering in years, was also its most charming and successful. As Rosalinda, Johann Strauss's 6g-year-old, waltz-drenched Die Fledermaus became a surprise smash...
...Skin of Our Teeth. Thornton Wilder's cockeyed, Pulitzer Prize-winning story of mankind, in which dinosaurs collide with bingo (TIME...
Playwright Thornton Wilder, for The Skin of Our Teeth...
Upton Sinclair was singled out for his "Dragon's Teeth," a novel published by an American and dealing with American life. "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's fantasy now running on Broadway, was given an award for "the American play, performed in New York, which represents in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage." Hanson W. Baldwin of the New York Times, was designated at the year's most distinguished correspondent on the basis of his South Pacific report. Either Forbes' "Paul Revere and the World Be Lived In" earned the prize for the best...