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Word: thorntons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweep and elegance of residential show places are breathtaking-and so are the prices. In Bel Air and Holmby Hills, homes worth upwards of half a million dollars are commonplace, and so are residents of the likes of Walt Disney, Red Skelton, Burt Lancaster, Industrialist Tex Thornton and Department Store Magnate Edward Carter. Other enclaves of the very rich are Beverly Hills' Trousdale Estates, where homes cost from $100,000 to $300,000, and Hancock Park, an old area of the central city that has been restored to extraordinary elegance. In Hancock Park, in stately mansions set on handsomely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Magnet in the West | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

MINNEAPOLIS. Minnesota Theater Company. At the Tyrone Guthrie Theater: August Strindberg's The Dance of Death; Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth; William Shakespeare's As You Like It; alternating through Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 12, 1966 | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...everyone in sight. Ranging around the tower's walk at will, he sent his bullets burning and rasping through the flesh and bone of those on the campus below, then of those who walked or stood or rode as far as three blocks away. Somewhat like the travelers in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, who were drawn by an inexorable fate to their crucial place in time and space, his victims fell as they went about their various tasks and pleasures. By lingering perhaps a moment too long in a classroom or leaving a moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Madman in the Tower | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

Oddly enough, Stewart's earliest predecessor, Dr. William Thornton, was also a purely amateur architect. When he designed the original Capitol in 1792, he begged President Washington to use marble. Washington vetoed his request as too expensive and supplied sandstone from his own quarry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monuments: Growth on the Hill | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...ninth, the Lions scored a run off Thornton, Harvard's third pitcher, and had the tying run on third with two out. But Coach Norm Shepard called on sophomore Tom Munzel, who blazed three fastballs past pinch hitter John Burns to end the game...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Nine Nips Lions, 10-9; Bows to Army | 5/9/1966 | See Source »

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