Word: thorntons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both teams collected unearned runs in the second inning. Tom Thornton, the football quarterback and leftfielder who contributed a clutch error to the Harvard seventh-frame uprising, started things off by beating out a grounder on a close play at first. He stole second, moved to third on a passed ball by Crimson catcher Jeff Hall, and scored on a squeeze bunt...
...board rejected Litton's first offer last year-it seems sure that when the Cleveland company's shareholders meet within 90 days, they will agree to the proposal. Certainly Vernon Stouffer, after 43 years in the business, will not be dismayed when Litton Chairman Tex Thornton and his West Coasters take over. He will stay on as chairman, but only last year his family bought the Cleveland Indians, and, he says, "I'm looking forward to spending more time at the ballpark...
...EIGHTH DAY by Thornton Wilder. 435 pages. Harper...
...Thornton Wilder's total literary output is small-six novels, four full-length plays. But if it is not a three-foot shelf, it bears witness to an original mind and a remarkable skill-The Skin of Our Teeth, Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey are genuine American classics...
...with characters who are merely symbols and a story that is an abstraction. After visiting Coaltown, readers may want to hop a fast freight to Grover's Corners, the setting of Our Town, whose scale was smaller but whose philosophy seemed almost as tangible as its strawberry sodas. Thornton Wilder remains engaging, thoughtful, a man to meet. Yet in this book, one longs for more substance, more authentic heart, more