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Under President John Thornton Kirkland, the College further solidified its claim to university status with the establishment of the Law School in 1817 and the Divinity School...
...Langlie and Oregon's Doug McKay, both hand-picked to run for the Senate, both lagging before Ike appeared on the horizon. In California the Eisenhower grin gleamed on Senator Tom Kuchel, and in Denver, during a 55-minute layover, the President stumped for Senate Candidate Dan Thornton...
...original "Our Town"--from Thornton Wilder's famous play--was painted as the ideal site for a relocated university by Paul Cummings, Jr., editor of the weekly Peterborough Transcript, Mrs. Florence Connell, the town bookkeeper, and selectman Forrest Mercer...
...wheat growers and other farmers was not enough to offset ex-Representative John A. Carroll's edge in Carroll's home city of Denver, lost the Democratic senatorial nomination to Carroll 60,494 to 62,391. Carroll, defeated in the 1954 Senate race, faces ex-Governor Dan Thornton, 45, ardent Ikeman, in November...
...pianist), speeches and friends' donations; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Stephen Vincent Benet...