Word: thorntons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Painting." Lorimer could be petty, as when he bought a story by a staffer but withheld the news from him for a few days because "he suffers so good." But he also commanded the grand manner. Recalls former Post Editor and Writer W. Thornton ("Pete") Martin: "He used to have a tailor come in and take his measurements right in the office. And he used to take a trip to Europe every year and come back loaded down with Oriental rugs, Chippendale furniture and tapestries. He'd have them all uncrated in the Post hallways for all the editors...
Whitman Hall and Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Paula Hajar of Jordon W and West Roxbury; North House, Marjie Piret of Wolbach Hall and Paris, France; South House, Anne Righter Thornton of 11 Peabody Terrace, Cambridge...
...calls "the stewardess philosophy." Each day his 570 female tellers swish behind their counters in one of their bank-provided "career coordinated ensembles"-a couple of dresses (navy-blue and light-blue), a sheath with a Chanel-type jacket and several ascots. Says NBNA's blonde Judy Thornton, who goes by the title of director of personnel development: "A girl can change her look as often as she pleases and still remain part of the overall unified look within the bank." Modish but by no means mod-no miniskirts allowed-the new clothes are only the latest feature...
...American Rockwell's commercial-products division last February. He calls his move "more a question of opportunity than of money." Opportunity, of course, usually beckons most strongly to those who consider themselves stymied in No. 2 jobs. A notable example is Litton Industries. With Chairman Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton, 55, and President Roy Ash, 49, showing no signs of yielding control, Litton has spawned a host of chief executives for other companies, including such "Lidos" (for Litton Industries dropouts) as Western Union's Russell McFall and City Investing Co.'s George Scharffenberger...
Encouraged by this (and more State Department money), Kumo this year invited Clurman to direct it in another O'Neill play. Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder and Arthur Miller have been successfully performed in Japan. But O'Neill especially, says Translator Koji Numazawa, "is haunting to us Japanese, with his tortuous groping for an answer to the overwhelming question of God's existence." Wiggy Look. Clurman expected formidable difficulties: his Japanese vocabulary consists of only ten words. But communication was a comparative cinch. First, he had to pry his cast loose from the stylized posturing of the kabuki...