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Awards and prizes take up ten lines of his 32-line listing in Who's Who, and now Poet, Playwright, Professor, Author, Classicist and Critic Thornton Wilder, 68, had another line to add: the first $5,000 National Book Committee prize for literature. No less a fan than Lady Bird Johnson made the presentation at the White House. And she, after refreshing her memory by rereading some of his works, declared him just to her taste. He avoids "a dreary reliance on four-letter words," said the First Lady, and his marching, singing prose makes "the commonplaces of living...
Southpaw starter Larry Melfa and reliefer Paul Thornton combined to give the Crimson its first shutout of the 1965 season. Melfa, who has taken his lumps in prior appearances on the mound, was razor-sharp yesterday. In seven innings he yielded seven hits, struck out eight batters, and walked none. Thornton entered the game in the eighth inning and put on the finishing touches...
...employee, Emmett Steele, 45, former director of military relations of California's widespread Litton Industries, charged in a civil suit that he had helped to found Litton in 1953. He had, he said, persuaded Charles Litton to sell his electronics company to present Litton Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton and his associates, had later used his connections to help Litton Industries procure important contracts-in return for which he had been promised a fifth of the founders' stock. Thornton and other Litton executives adamantly denied making any promise to give Steele the stock, belittled his executive contributions during...
...mock-minatory farewell address to London's Pilgrims Society, Britain's new Ambassador to the U.S., jolly, Cambridge-educated Sir Patrick Dean, 56, noted that the only other Cantabrigian to have represented the Crown in Washington was Sir Edward Thornton, who clung to the post for 14 years (1867-81), longer than any other British diplomat. Said Sir Patrick: "You have been warned...
Three sophomores--Larry Melfa, Paul Thornton, and Jim McCandlish--are also prime candidates for the pitching staff. But at present, the whole pitching situation is in a state of flux, and will not become and less confused until the team takes its six-game Southern tour over . "I've been worrying for four weeks." Shepard said, "about whom to start the first game with...