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...NEWTON THORNBURG...
...working with the community, both in Cambridge and in Roxbury; we are preparing to go out into the world and try to put some ideals into business. We are concerned, and we are in support of the student strike at Harvard. Laurence O. McKinney '66, HBS '69 H. Garrett Thornburg, jr. HBS '70 Members, The Business School Minority
When the Post & Times-Star ran that story last September, Editor Dick Thornburg had a hunch there might be more to tell. He instructed Reporter Jim Horner, 32, to case the probate court to see if it was involved in any other high-fee hanky-panky. Horner has been on the story ever since, and his byline has been on the front page almost daily for over two months...
...practice of appointing relatives and close friends as appraisers. Out of a $37,575,282 estate left by a Procter & Gamble heiress, two of Judge Davies' friends had each received a $37,575 fee. Upset by the publicity, the probate judge paid two frantic calls on Editor Thornburg to try to persuade him that he was a man of probity. Said Thornburg in an editorial: "The best you can say is that the judge runs a slovenly court." Davies responded by announcing that he was cutting appraisal fees and not appointing any more friends-"not with all the noise...
Complaints about sluggishness come mostly from younger pastors and laymen, reflecting dissatisfaction with veteran leadership. Pastor Robert Thornburg of Peoria fears that the result of this break with the old guard is not creative tension between two views of the church but mutual incomprehension. "We just choose up sides and hate each other," he says. Bishop Richard Raines of Indianapolis, who at a youthful-spirited 67 is the new president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, believes that the age of 50 is the usual dividing line. Many older members "want the church to be what...