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Northeastern's goalle Thornton also played a brilliant game, kicking away 47 shots to prolong the game to three over-time sessions...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: B.C. Fells Harvard 5-4 in Beanpot On Goal in Sudden-Death Overtime | 2/9/1965 | See Source »

...opening game had been tied for 40 minutes, when B.U.'s Bassi took Tom Ross' pass in midair at the blue-line, stickhandled the puck through the North, eastern defense, and sild it under goalle Gary Thornton. The score came at 0:52 of the third ten-minute, sudden-death over-time sesion...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: B.C. Fells Harvard 5-4 in Beanpot On Goal in Sudden-Death Overtime | 2/9/1965 | See Source »

...claims to be an unrecognized founder is Emmett T. Steele, who is suing Thornton, Ash and Jamieson for about $20 million in a Los Angeles court on charges that he was defrauded of his rightful share of Litton stock. Steele, 45, left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: The Lost Founder | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...time the others did in 1953, joined Litton as director of military relations. He charges that he helped the group buy the firm's small predecessor company from Charles Litton, and that an agreement was made to split the founders' stock into five parts-two for Thornton and one each for Jamieson, Ash and Steele. As it turned out, Thornton got at least 144,000 shares, Steele only 10,000. According to Litton's lawyers, Steele was fired in 1959 after telling Tex Thornton that he planned to sue for a bigger share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: The Lost Founder | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...produce a lot of heat, and has already confirmed one standard of modern corporate life. In seeking to prove that Steele was really not an important executive, Litton's attorneys pointed out what they obviously thought was a clincher: Steele did not have a company car, while Thornton did, and Thornton's office was "much larger, better equipped, had private convenience facilities." Translation: Tex Thornton had an executive washroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: The Lost Founder | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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