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According to Auden's Law, most of the plays of Thornton Wilder are a poor source for operatic material: deliberately unsensational, they often deal with lives that are determinedly sensible. But last week audiences in Mannheim, Germany, saw Wilder's one-act play, The Long Christmas Dinner, successfully transformed into opera by that master craftsman of contemporary music-Composer Paul Hindemith...
Very French. Big names still show up, too: Thornton Wilder, Gene Kelly, William Shirer, James Jones. Playwright Brendan Behan even turns up sober. But, a good part of the present clientele is French. Jean-Paul Sartre and his constant companion, Simone de Beauvoir, make Harry's their regular hangout. Françoise Sagan uses Harry's for her tristes, and so do a growing number of young French playwrights, film directors and actors...
After three years devoted to his avowed magnum opus-a double cycle of 14 one-act plays-Author Thornton (Our Town) Wilder, 64, delivered a progress report. The new plays, he said, dealt only in universals-"I am not interested in such ephemeral subjects as the adulteries of dentists"-and three of them, entitled Infancy, Childhood and Someone from Assisi, would open off Broadway next month. As for the remaining eleven, said Wilder, "some are on the stove, some are in the oven, and some are in the wastebasket." When all 14 were finally fully baked, then what? "After...
Vertical Take-Off. With the Lehman-raised cash, Thornton and Ash bought Litton, then a small microwave tube manufacturer, and began broadening its spectrum by picking up a handful of other small electronics firms. As its stock soared. Litton found it easy to swap shares for control of larger companies. By acquiring Digital Controls Systems Inc., it got a foothold in the manufacture of compact computers that make as many as 15,000 calculations per second for aircraft in flight. A merger with Monroe Calculating Machine Co. gave Litton a chance to apply its electronic talents to the burgeoning business...
...laboratories in nine countries, it still has no table of organization-except, says Roy Ash, "in our heads." And there are no corporate standing committees, since "committees lead to agendas and agendas lead to more committees." Roy Ash's promotion will not essentially alter his relationship to Chairman Thornton, who remains Litton's chief executive officer. But as president. Ash will be able to relieve Thornton of many of the chores of top-level negotiations. Ash need not feel embarrassed, as Thornton might, in negotiating defense deals going through Thornton's old friend. Defense Secretary McNamara. Between...