Word: thorntons
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Died. Robert Lee Thornton, 83, mayor of Dallas from 1953 to 1961 and the city's No. 1 booster for four decades; after a long illness; in Dallas. The son of a tenant cotton farmer who built a tiny mortgage business into the $450 million Mercantile National Bank (one of Dallas' Big Three), Thornton was head of a host of civic organizations that helped bring in the Dallas Symphony, the 1935 Texas Centennial, and an annual state fair the likes of which even Texans had never seen...
...radio grew, it was CBS's energetic young president who fed it more new ideas than anyone else. Paley introduced the Columbia Workshop, which broadcast the early works of Thornton Wilder and W. H. Auden. And as World War II began, he initiated the practice of fracturing news programs into brief reports from scattered capitals. After the war-in which he served as colonel in charge of psychological warfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower-he made one of the strongest moves in broadcasting history when he took control of programming away from advertising agencies and outside packagers. From then...
...Theater Company has clearly expended a great deal of energy on this production. Dustin Hoffman as Clov, Frank Cassidy as Hamm, and Jerry Gershman and Naomi Thornton as Nagg and Nell all act with discipline and tact in a play that tempts them to noise and ranting. The set, by Alexander Pertzoff, is properly absurd. And David Wheeler's direction perfectly exploits the strength of this kind of theater. Experiencing Endgame is in a way like walking into the monastery chapel a few blocks down from Eliot House: we are thrown into another world and made to forget...
Hello, Dolly!, a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, has eye appeal, ear appeal, love appeal and laugh appeal, but its most insinuative charm is its nostalgic appeal. When Dolly Levi (Carol Channing), widow and matchmaker, fondles a cash register after announcing that she plans to marry its owner, she carries the mind back to a time when women needed and cherished men for their money, and in a day when wives sometimes earn as much or more than their husbands, that image is strangely endearing. The curmudgeonly businessman who loathed culture, spurned pleasure and lived...
...economically speaking, that he would make a better President than Johnson, who is making the first decisive moves toward economy that I have seen in 30 years. Other Presidents have talked about economy, but Johnson has the leadership qualities that can make it fact." And Republican Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton, chairman of California's Litton Industries, adds: "I talk with lots of Republican businessmen every day, and I am deeply impressed by two things: a feeling of confidence in Lyndon Johnson, and a general acceptance of the probability that he will be re-elected this year...