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...Brunswick, where he was meditating while fishing, Naturalist Thornton (Old Mother West Wind stories) Burgess, 80, whose bedtime stories are in sum a 44-year chase of Peter Rabbit, who always manages to evade Reddy Fox by a hare's breadth, confided that Peter will never be caught unless it's over Burgess' dead body. "There will never be a tragedy in the Burgess bedtime stories," said he feelingly, with a deep sense of his mission. "Tragedy comes into a child's life soon enough...
Governor Dan Thornton put out a proclamation, and Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton called for "a pilgrimage in spirit to the Mount of the Holy Cross." On the City Hall carillon, Faith of Our Fathers and other suitable anthems were played. The Rocky Mountain News wrote: "The hand of the Creator wrinkled the brow of this majestic peak in a symmetrical cruciform that cradles the ice and snow of ages . . ." An apologetic mountaineer heard the bells, read the paper, and called the News to say that something had been overlooked. The left arm cross has been crumbling away from...
...farmers in the old Kansas-Nebraska-Oklahoma-Colorado dust bowl were worrying about a lack of wheat, not a surplus. In the last fortnight, storms have again covered farms in the drought-stricken bowl with blankets of dust. Colorado's Republican Governor Dan Thornton pointed out that there would be no dust bowl if good grazing lands, anchored by tough, tangled grass roots, had not been plowed up to plant wheat under the incentive of Government-supported high prices. Said he: "High prices guaranteed for wheat have ... led to plowing up . . . land which never should have been cultivated...
...Thornton Wilder, who gave the Charles Eliot Norton lectures in 1950-51, is a member of the committee that issued the statement. Peter R. Viereck '37, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was among the writers who drafted...
...support the Vietnamese and French in their conduct of that war against the encroachment of Communism. But there would be no se cret military commitment: there is no attempt to carry on the affairs of the U.S. in a darkened room. ¶ Asked Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton, as chairman of the 1954 Governors' Conference, to take a party of governors to Korea about April i, and appraise the progress of rehabilitation there. ¶Nominated Career Diplomat John Moors Cabot, 52, to be Ambassador to Sweden...