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Died. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, 86, Yale's great teacher of English literature (among his students: Stephen Vincent Benet, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish. Thornton Wilder) and the university's keeper of rare books, world-renowned for his 1925 discovery of a supposedly destroyed collection of Boswell papers; of a stroke; in Hartford, Conn. Tink's literary sleuthing uncovered the papers in Ireland's Malahide Castle, but he was unable to persuade Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson, to part with the vast trove. It remained for Lieut...
...allow workers to have their salaries credited directly to bank accounts. But they feared the prospect of everybody in Britain stampeding to the banks on Friday afternoon to cash their checks. "The banks would be overwhelmed if there were such a mad rush," says Barclays Bank Vice Chairman Ronald Thornton. Small trades men also disliked the idea of having to cash a flurry of checks, fear that they will become stickup targets if forced to keep larger sums of cash on hand. Employers, too, were lukewarm to the whole idea, since writing out checks means more work making up payrolls...
...seemed to have trouble deciding in what direction his basic current flowed. It seemed to dazzle the audience, however, since the Repertoire Workshop's ballet scored higher ratings than its competition. NBC's The Virginian and ABC's Wagon Train. Philadelphia showed young actors in Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about how difficult it was to kill the monk Rasputin. Actor Val Bettin was a triumph of holy lechery with a soft ten-inch beard around...
...favorite Midcult writers include Pearl Buck, John Steinbeck, JP. Marquand, Archibald MacLeish, and even Ernest Hemingway, or at least much of his writing. His prize examples of Midcult are James Gould Cozzens' novel By Love Possessed, with its convoluted prose and jawbreaking Latinisms like "solemnization" and "presbyopic," and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with its fuzzy philosophizing: "There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being." Writes Macdonald: "This is an eleven-word summary, in form and content, of Midcult. I agree with everything Mr. Wilder says, but I will fight...
...Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, 40, rolled to a second term with lots of votes to spare. More impressive, he was one of the few incumbent Governors in the U.S. whose plurality did not shrink from the previous election. Hatfield was just too much for Democratic State Attorney General Robert Thornton, who never had a chance. But Hatfield missed another sort of chance: he gave only the most tepid support to a weak G.O.P. ticket mate, Senate Candidate Sig Unander, who did well in losing to Democrat Wayne Morse. If popular Mark Hatfield had gone all-out for Unander, he might...