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Your Jan. 12 article about Thornton Wilder gives an impression of one whose life and writings are without aim or pattern; and that impression, I believe, is correct. Wilder is the best representative of the American he describes-lonely, nomadic and insubmissive...
Your treatment of Thornton Wilder . . . will bring to the attention of thousands the talents of this man-certainly one of the truly great intellectual-literary men of our day. His is indeed the catholic mind...
Your fine story on Thornton Wilder reminded me of the time two years ago when he was the Charles Eliot Norton professor here at Harvard. WHRB, the Harvard radio station, has a tradition of staying on the air 24 hours a day with classical music for about two or three weeks previous to exams. Mr. Wilder heard about this and was disturbed that he had no radio ... He came down to the station one day and asked if he might just sit in the studio. We assured him that this would be possible . . . Thereafter, for the next couple of weeks...
Unlike Harry Truman, Ike likes business lunches. For his first in the White House he invited his campaign friends, Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton and Wisconsin's Governor Walter J. Kohler, in for fried chicken. They talked, among other things, about federal encroachment on state tax sources. Ike took them on a 45-minute tour of the White House, and was back at his desk by 2 o'clock. At 3:30 he watched benignly as seven members of his personal staff were sworn in. Two hours later, Ike walked over to a more elaborate ceremony...
...days later, a postcard came from Zurich. A short time later, another card came from Munich, which read: "I feel like a man on parole reporting to my sponsor, Mr. Klein . . . Punctually yours, Thornton Wilder." Wilder moved on to Baden-Baden, then back to Munich, then to Innsbruck. London Correspondent A. T. Baker caught up with him there and spent four days with...