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...three past Norton lecturers have been Thornton Wilder, Aaron Copeland, and E. E. Cummings...
...strange modernistic tower into the sky. His legs, bulging with orange-colored, cubist muscles, are firmly earthbound; but his upper half reaches into the stars. Explained Artist Tamayo: "I wanted to show man as a rational being going to higher places." Dallas, by & large, was delighted. Mayor Bob Thornton grunted appreciatively: "Looks like he's got his feet in the mud . . . Been that way myself...
Sell That City. After a shaky career as farm hand, clerk, traveling salesman and partner in a bookstore, Thornton settled down in a mortgage business in an office over a Dallas cigar store. The business grew into the present Mercantile National Bank, one of Dallas' Big Three. Although Bob became a bank president and a local big shot, he made his reputation as a supersalesman. "Everybody's got to sell," he says. "Preacher's got to sell his sermon, butcher's got to sell his beefsteak." And Thornton had to sell Dallas...
...years, Banker Thornton has boosted Dallas with the fervor of a man in love. In 1935, as president of the Chamber of Commerce, he persuaded the legislature that Dallas, by virtue of its progressive spirit and convenient location, was the right site for the Texas Centennial-although both San Antonio and Houston had better historical claims. The Centennial-in Dallas-was a stampeding eyecatcher, and it was only natural, afterwards, that Thornton should turn his attention to the creaking old State Fair...
...expects his associates to be always on the ready line ("If it's gonna be a do meeting, O.K. If you're gonna run around like rats in a tub, I don't want any part of it"). No one goes to a meeting with Thornton without being well-prepared...