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Structurally it resembles Thornton Wilder's Bridge of San Luis Rey, opening with a scene at the border of Egypt and Palestine. At dawn British guards see a grey bus racing wildly over the desert...
...Town is also a poem in play form. Thornton Wilder wrote it in the only poetic idiom which Americans always understand-simple U. S. speech in which emotion supercharges the common forms. He wrote it out of the poetic materials to which Americans always respond-the casual routine of their lives amid the sights, sounds, smells of the American earth. Because Sam Wood, who directed Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and a splendid cast have transferred Our Town, the play, to film without disturbing this basic poetry, Our Town, the picture, is a cinema event...
...banks of the deep. sheltered Delaware River ("America's Clyde"), on tidewater 90 miles from the sea. Mellon sold it in 1916 for $11,500,000 to American International Corp., and its troubles began. From 1925 on it was bought & sold first by brilliant, eccentric Laurence Russell Wilder, a promoter, who dropped its name and combined it with his electric equipment manufacturing firm of American Brown Boveri Electric Corp.; then by Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, a promoter too. Present owner (since 1938): canny, balding Victor Emanuel's Aviation & Transportation Corp., which controls...
...Wilder headed the Big Green scorers by netting five goals with Melanson adding the sixth. Making a point each period the Crimson stickmen were unable to catch up to the four point margin set by Dartmouth in the first quarter. Jess Willard was high scorer of the Witherspoonmen with two tallies to his credit. Pete Zouck and Doug Anderson followed by batting in one apiece...
...Elizabeth Wilder prize of $100, for high rating in the mid-year examination in elementary German, was divided equally between Robert G. Axtell '43, of Evanston, Illinois, and Milton W. Hamolsky '43 of Lynn...