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...Supper, a musical version of Terence Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince, starring José Ferrer (Nov. 28). N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker will reseed the money cloud as 110 in the Shade, with Inga Swenson, Robert Horton and Stephen Douglass (Oct. 24). A musical version of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker is called Dolly: A Damned Exasperating Woman, starring Carol Channing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The New Season | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...List, the White House announced the names of 31 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest peacetime U.S. civilian honor, awarded to only 24 persons since 1945. Hidden away among such names as Ralph Bunche, Pablo Casals, Felix Frankfurter, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, George Meany and Thornton Wilder were a few less well-known, though no less deserving. Among them: Genevieve Caulfield, 73, "a one-woman Peace Corps," blind since birth, who has founded and tirelessly run a much-needed school for the blind, first in Thailand and now in Viet Nam; Robert J. Kiphuth, 72, Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 12, 1963 | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...Charles Thornton, chairman, Litton Industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 31, 1963 | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

Most businessmen consider the last 10% or so of capacity in most industries almost inevitably inefficient, agree that producing at full capacity leaves no room for flexibility and frequently leads to costly breakdowns and power failures, crash expansion programs and industrial slovenliness. Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 49, of Litton Industries, which has done so well in keeping ahead of the competition with new electronics products and processes that its sales have increased an awesome 13,000% in the ten years of its history, believes that "to properly modernize U.S. industry, there should be expenditures of $100 billion to $300 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: New & Exuberant | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...former Ford President McNamara. A top student at U.C.L.A. in banking and finance, he at first wanted to become a teacher, changed his mind during the war after teaming up with nine other brilliant young men at the Air Force's statistical school at Harvard. Led by Tex Thornton, now chairman of Litton Industries, and including McNamara, they offered themselves in a package deal to Henry Ford II in 1946, went on to become the famous "Whiz Kids" who revivified ailing Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: A Friden with Style | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

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