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...Epps] dislikes [the Church] very much,"Robert W. Thornburg, Dean of March Chapel atBoston University says. "He has the feeling thatHarvard students have a lot more important thingsto do than fussing with the Boston Church ofChrist...
...Thornburg says he fears that the Boston Churchof Christ may file a first amendment lawsuitagainst Boston University or Harvard. "My sense isthat they're setting up several of us, and Harvardwould be the best one [for a lawsuit]," Thornburgsays. "Harvard is our premier institution, that'sthe place you target first," he says...
Robert W. Thornburg, Boston University Chaplainand Dean of Marsh Chapel, recently wrote an18-page report warning students of theorganization's persistence...
...papers is a pack of smaller dailies and even a few weeklies that compete editorially. Probably the most respected is the Fort Myers News-Press (circ. 61,000). "We don't have the resources of the Herald or the Times," says News-Press Executive Editor Ron Thornburg, "but we can make little guerrilla raids." The News-Press and the slightly larger but less ambitious Cocoa Today are owned by the giant Gannett chain. The Lakeland Ledger (circ. 50,000) has probably surpassed the Gainesville Sun (circ. 42,000) as editorial leader of the six dailies owned...
Keep an eye on Newton Thornburg. He has followed his first, rather clumsy effort, To Die in California (1972), with a fine second novel that is tense, funny and despairing. Its literary persuasiveness is generated by an extraordinary pair of characters who sound derivative and unprepossessing but run away with the book. Alex Cutter is a disfigured cripple; in Viet Nam he lost an arm, a leg and an eye. As if to make up for these missing parts, he is a full-time resister and iconoclast who loudly lacerates the world with mockery. His friend and foil is Rich...