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...Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden (Wed. 9 p. m. CBS). Thornton Wilder's fantasy about a family who go for a drive in a car which never moves; produced by the Columbia Workshop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

When Actor Frank Craven took a holiday from his leading role of commentator in Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Thornton Wilder stepped into the part. Said Author-Actor Wilder of his Broadway debut: "I stuttered a little over my lines, clipped some of the words, tripped now & then." Said the critics: "He read his lines extremely well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...Albert Payson Terhune, Ernest Thompson Seton, Donald Culross Peattie and Thornton Burgess all put their heads together, they would hardly be able to devise an animal fiction as strange as the animal fact which baffled San Antonio, Texas last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Treasure Hunt | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Hyde 2G. Ozias Goodwin memorial fellowship, Harvey S. Perloff 2G. William Watson Goodwin, fellowships to: Albert H. Travis 2G, Frederic Peachy 2G. Harris fellowship, Lawrence W. Newton, University of Wichita. Priscilla Clark Hodges scholarship, Vincent G. Dethier 2G. Albert and Anna Howard fellowship, John R. Grant 2G. John Thornton Kirkland fellowship, Baranby C. Keeney 2G. Henry Lee memorial fellowship, Daniel C. Vandermeulen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 115 Men Get $63,350 Worth of '38-'39 Graduate Scholarships | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Many a U. S. businessman, dreaming in his swivel chair, has gone a-voyaging to the South Seas. But few are the voyages that have not been abruptly terminated by the jangle of a telephone. Alfred Thornton Baker of Princeton, N. J. is one businessman who not only dreamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Businessman's Dream | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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