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California's Litton Industries has grown into an $860 million electronics-based business since it was started in 1953 by three refugees from the Howard Hughes empire. Its stock has zoomed from 10? a share to $75 (value after splits: $300), making millions for its founders: Charles ("Tex") Thornton, board chairman; Roy Ash, president; and Hugh W. Jamieson, who left in 1958 to found his own company. This year Litton has enjoyed its most substantial growth to date, ceaselessly acquiring new companies to add to its list. One thing Litton does not want to acquire is a fourth founder...
Standish Meacham, Jr., an English historian and author of "Henry Thornton of Clapham, 1760-1815." He has been an instructor since 1961 and Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Winthrop House since 1962. He holds the A.B. (1954) from Yale and the Ph.D. (1961) from Harvard...
...makes me optimistic." The development: a surprising number of aerospace, electronic and other technically oriented companies are branching into shipbuilding, figuring that their scientific talent and sharp cost accounting can bail out the industry. Ingalls Shipbuilding got a technological fillip when it was acquired three years ago by Tex Thornton's Litton Industries. Aerojet-General recently bought Jacksonville's Gibbs Shipyards, and General Dynamics last January picked up Bethlehem Steel's huge yard at Quincy, Mass. Lockheed's highly efficient subsidiary in Seattle, Puget Sound Bridge & Dry Dock, has raised its payroll from...
...support of the fight to free Italy from Fascism; Paul Hoffman, 73, managing director of the U.N. Special Fund, presented with the American Freedom Association's 1964 World Peace Award; Film Cowboy and Multi-millionaire Investor Gene Autry, 56, Novelist Pearl Buck, 71, Litton Industries Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 50, and Architect Minoru Yamasaki, 41, each given a Horatio Alger Award for a noteworthy rise from "humble beginnings"; Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 55, who successfully argued against segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated...
...being a philosophical absolute, existentialism is itself a product of history and thus subject to the limitations of language. Theologians therefore must remember that their own expression of the existential questions may be quite as limited as was St. Paul's. Wilder, who is a brother of Playwright Thornton, criticizes Fuchs's emphasis on faith as obedience, ignoring the New Testament concern for the content of faith. In a chatty postscript, Fuchs answers that his colleagues are aware of the cultural limitations of existentialism; but they still believe it is the most useful starting point for their Biblical...