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...plays that tower over American drama -- Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night -- Our Town is at once the most universally familiar and the most widely misunderstood. Audiences tend to recall Wilder's glimpse of small-town, turn-of-the-century New Hampshire as sweet, sentimental, nostalgic and funny. It was all those things. But it was also -- and remains, 50 years after its first public performances in January 1938 -- groundbreakingly unconventional in form and chafingly unsettling...
During the 35 years that he ran the firm, Ford gathered around him men who became important leaders in their own right. Among them: Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and later head of the World Bank; Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca; and Charles ("Tex") Thornton, who co-founded Litton Industries. Yet none of them ever claimed to understand the man they always addressed as Mr. Ford. When he died last week of complications from pneumonia in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he was still unfathomable...
...actress of stage and screen who won quick fame in 1966 with an Academy Award nomination for her role in the film A Patch of Blue and subsequently co-starred in The Group (1966), The Fixer (1968) and Walking Tall (1973), as well as a 1969 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town; in an apparent suicide leap from her fifth-floor apartment; in Pittsburgh. Hartman was an outpatient of a Pittsburgh psychiatric hospital, where she was being treated for depression that reportedly stemmed from the decline of her acting career...
...diplomats negotiate, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas executives are peddling their planes more aggressively than in the past. Says Dean Thornton, president of Boeing's commercial-plane division: "We used to sell 727s like you sell Mercedes. This one's nice and there's the price on the window, take it or leave it. But times have changed." Now both American aircraftmakers offer better service, supply spare parts in advance and guarantee maintenance costs...
Brown's run came in the third inning when Susan Tounge hit a sacrifice fly to leftfielder Nancy Prior. The throw to home barely missed nailing Caroline Thronton. Thornton led off the inning with a walk, was sacrificed to second and advanced to third on Teresa Hirshauer's single...