Word: thornburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Betty Hutton (real name: Betty June Thornburg), 34, brash, bouncy Hollywood dancer-songstress (The Greatest Show on Earth); and Alan Livingston, 38, Capitol Records vice president; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...
...Cincinnati Post (circ. 167,260) and 34 years as a columnist. Read the special citation: "[Segal's] writings and his personal life . . . have been the ideals and aims of the National Conference of Christians and Jews." Back in the Post's city room. Editor Dick Thornburg and his staffers had another way of saying it. At a surprise party, the Post gave Al Segal a gold wristwatch with the inscription: "To Al, the Conscience of Cincinnati...
...uranium-rich West another major strike was confirmed last week. Its name: Blue Rock Mine, in Arizona's Rincon Mountains, some 40 miles east of Tucson. The finders: Dentist Garth Thornburg, 35, and his brother Vance, 33, onetime farmer. Pioneers of the Grand Junction uranium rush, the Thornburg brothers collected promising claims on the Colorado plateau in 1950, built them into their Uranium Enterprises. Inc. On their 116 claims in the Blue Rock area, they believe they have at least 25,000 tons of commercial ore, hope to prove out 150,000 tons...
...they prepared to cover the Republican Convention next week, newsmen all agreed on one point. Their big competitor in Chicago will not be the other newsmen; it will be television and its gavel-to-gavel coverage. In a memo to his staff, Scripps-Howard's news executive Dick Thornburg sketched the plan of battle against TV: "Our job more than at any time in the past will be to provide interpretive material. Why did Joe Blow make that kind of a speech? What influence did it have? What votes did it change? Also, forward-looking stories telling the readers...
...Oilman Max Thornburg, onetime administrator of Iran's defunct Seven-Year Plan, who lives part of each year like an air-conditioned Robinson Crusoe on one of the Bahrein Islands, says: "If the Point Four people really want to know how to handle this sort of thing, they should come out here and study Bahrein...