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...Baldish, bespectacled, 45-year-old Thornton Niven Wilder made news many times before last week. In 1927 he bounced to fame with his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which sold over 250,000 copies and won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1935 his novel Heaven's My Destination, which he described as "diluted Dante," was a Book-of-the-Month choice and a subject for heated discussion. Then & there forswearing fiction for the theater, he emerged in 1938 with Our Town, whose sceneryless stage flabbergasted Broadway, fetched another Pulitzer Prize...
...this was an evil omen for his reign. But last week in London the exiled King, on his 70th birthday, knew that in his people's travail Norway's crown fitted him more snugly than ever. Standing with Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, the shy, baldish King, uniformed as an admiral, reviewed an expatriate kingdom: hundreds of civilians-men, women & children who had fled from Norway; Norwegian soldiers and sailors; women in Auxiliary Service khaki. Said the King: "Today the home front in Norway is united like a strong wall. . . . All Norwegians are thankful...
Melancthon Fowinkle returned from the Civil War wishing it had never ended. It had cost him his right arm. But it had given him, a baldish intellectual, years of equality with his dumb, knightly brother Fairfax, who had died in the Southern apogee of courage, under Pickett at Gettysburg. Dealing death, and living with it constantly, was the most heartening experience Melancthon had ever known...
...four pieces exist because of an idea of rotund-faced, baldish Conductor Andre Kostelanetz. As he explains it, "I want people to get the message of what democracy is, what we are fighting for." So first he telephoned Jerome Kern in Beverly Hills. Kern, who has been a Mark Twain enthusiast since boyhood (the first book he ever owned was Huckleberry Finn), jumped at the idea of a Mark Twain portrait. Copland wanted to do Walt Whitman in music, but was persuaded to tackle Lincoln. Virgil Thomson was best suited to his particular assignments. Since 1928 he has been composing...
...baldish Attorney Gregory Brunk, after profiting mightily in North Dakota county bonds, paid Langer $56,800 for dust-bowl lands he had never seen...