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After a 30-yard broken-field run by Brooks Wilder in the final quarter, Bob Woodruff passed to Mike Post for Lowcll's clinching counter...
...Eliot-Dunster game, the Elephants, operating out of their powerful T, scored once in each of the first three periods. The Funsters' spirit was broken early when Eliot tallied on a pass from Rick Hudner to Thelp Wilder. Hudner scored again in the second quarter on a wide sweep around end. The Pachyderms' final counter came early in the second half on a pass from Charlie Cabot to Rowland...
Playwright Thornton Wilder (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth) revealed some facts about that new play, still unnamed and still in the works: it will need no scenery, no curtain, no stage lights, no music. The house lights will not be dimmed at any time, and the action will unroll without a break. The subject: the life of a man. The casting: different actors to play the hero at different ages; one actress to play all the major female parts...
...only hope for American literature, Lewisohn concluded, is to be found in the work of such prose writers as Thornton Wilder, and such modern poets as Frederic Prokosch, Karl Shapiro, and Peter Viereck. He especially commended Vierock, who, he said, has been alone in his attempt to "convey with lucidity and power certain fundamental realities. of the spirit of man-which is the true purpose of all literature...
...committee of U.S. citizens (honorary chairman: Herbert Hoover) arranged to take over the mountain resort of Aspen, Colo, for a three-week bicentennial festival. They hired the Minneapolis Symphony to play, and assembled a distinguished roster of speakers, including Poet Stephen Spender, Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn, Playwright Thornton Wilder, Alsatian Philosopher-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, and Spain's Philosopher-Teacher-Statesman José Ortega y Gasset...