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When TIME'S Education Editor Bruce Barton Jr. was writing a cover story on Robert M. Hutchins (TIME, Nov. 21, 1949), then chancellor of the University of Chicago, one of the many men he interviewed was Playwright Thornton Wilder. Barton found Wilder to be one of the best authorities...
For last week's cover story on Wilder, the tables were turned. Interviewed in Pasadena, Hutchins announced to a TIME correspondent: "I am the greatest living authority on Thornton Wilder. I think it is true that he is my best living friend; all the others have drunk themselves to...
"Wilder talked a lot in those four days, to his own amusement. Says he: 'Usually, when somebody asks me to talk about myself, I go all shy and change the subject.' But once, in a moment of exuberance, he cried : 'I have no secrets from you, Massa...
"Oh, Tut-Tut-Tut . . ." After two years of Oberlin, World War I took Thornton into a coast-defense unit ("I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal"). But by that time he was a Yaleman after all. Thornton wrote for the Lit, joined the Elizabethan Club, quoted...
¶ At the College of the University of Chicago, Dean F. Champion Ward trotted out statistics to prove that Robert Maynard Hutchins' ten-year-old "Great Books" curriculum is a success. Students who have set their own pace through a Hutchins-type education, said Dean Ward, excel in almost...