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...Institute of Arts and Letters proclaimed Novelist John (U.S.A.) Dos Passes, 61, the winner of its gold medal for fiction, handed out once every ten years. Presented for the "lasting contribution" of an author's entire works, the gold medal has previously gone to such literary lights as Thornton Wilder, Booth Tarkington, Willa Cather, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton...
Biographies in Sound (Tues. 9:05 p.m., NBC). Thornton Wilder...
...Broadway has presented some 40 shows this season, seems certain to crack last year's record of 68. Still to come: George Bernard Shaw's Good King Charles's Golden Days, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, and a musical version of Tom Sawyer...
...just ten years ago. His first was about President Truman as Man of the Year (TIME, Jan. 3, 1949). In the next two years he wrote eleven more before he went off to London as a correspondent. While abroad, he did much of the reporting for cover stories on Thornton Wilder, Joyce Gary, Claire Bloom and Audrey Hepburn. Since his return in January 1954, Baker has not only written twelve other cover stories but also edited those on King Hussein of Jordan, Actor Rex Harrison, Michigan State's Coach Duffy Daugherty and Singer Maria Callas...
Biographies in Sound (Tues. 9 :os p.m., NBC). Thornton Wilder...