Word: thorntons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dallas Citizens Council (DCC). San Antonio, with the Alamo, and Houston, with nearby San Jacinto Battlefield offered more historic settings for the Centennial, but unhistoric Dallas promised $3,500,000 and well laid-out fair grounds, and won the contract. Through his experience in the venture, banker Robert Lee Thornton felt a need for a permanent group of Dallas businessmen dedicated to the progress of Dallas--"a yes and no committee," he called...
...Cellist Pablo Casals, Educator James B. Conant, Virologist John F. Enders, Justice (retired) Felix Frankfurter, Inventor (Polaroid camera) Edwin H. Land, Bankers Robert A. Lovett and John J. McCloy, Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Steelman Clarence B. Randall, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Photographer Edward Steichen, Authors E. B. White, Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson, and Painter Andrew Wyeth...
...Thornton "packed an automatic pistol to deal with any rattlesnakes, bobcats or mountain lions he might encounter...
...think more mention should have been made of his lovely and talented wife, Flora Laney Thornton. She is a talented singer and has a degree in music from our Texas Technological College here in Lubbock. While here in college, Flora was most generous with her singing talent and was the star of many of Lubbock's musical programs. Lubbock people still remember with pleasure the contribution she made to our community with her lovely singing voice...
...World War II, came to TIME out of the Navy. He wrote a distinguished Education section for nine years, then moved to Foreign News, and some three years ago took over the Art section. Among his 14 cover stories were two perceptive pieces on the intellectual in America (Thornton Wilder, Jan. 12, 1953; Jacques Barzun, June 11, 1956), a fascinating report on his alma mater (Nathan Pusey, March 1, 1954), and a sensitive essay on a brilliant architect (Le Corbusier...