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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...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: The Growth and Development of a University | 10/31/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Happy Traveler | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: Peterborough Favors Move by University | 10/4/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How They Run | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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