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Republican Mark Hatfield was re-elected to the governorship over Robert Thornton, and Democrat Wayne Morse was re-elected as Senator over Sig Unander...
Magical Power. At first glance, the six objects of Wescott's literary affection-Katherine Anne Porter, Somerset Maugham, Colette. Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and Thornton Wilder-seem to have little in common. But all illustrate Wescott's passionate belief in the magical power of a story to hold those brooding truths about human behavior that cannot be abstracted as philosophy or illuminated in the swift lightning of poetic metaphor...
Prospect for No. 2. Opposing him this fall is Democratic Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton, 52, an energetic campaigner who has taunted Hatfield with trying to please everybody. The charge is accurate enough; Thornton's problem is that Hatfield has to a remarkable extent succeeded. Two years ago, before New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller's presidential candidacy became a dead letter, there was talk of a Rockefeller-Hatfield national ticket. If Hatfield is solidly re-elected this year, and if Rockefeller or another Eastern Republican heads the G.O.P. ticket in 1964 Hatfield might well...
Dumb Waiter, Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha and Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words...
...Wonderful Climax." The White House-sponsored acknowledgment of culture was spreading all over Washington. Last week Novelist Thornton Wilder came to town to read from his works at a "Cabinet Evening" in the State Department Auditorium; he stayed over for a White House dinner this week honoring French Minister for Culture André Malraux for which the guest list was heavily studded with actors and writers. "Washington," said Wilder grandiloquently, "is becoming like a lighthouse on the hill for those things for which we spend our lives...