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...When Thornton Bradshaw was chosen last January as the fourth chairman of RCA in six years, the electronics and communications conglomerate (1980 sales: $8 billion) was already heading into trouble. Earnings were slipping, morale had been devastated by a decade-long succession of management fiascos, and Wall Street analysts were beginning to wonder whether the once high-flying firm would ever regain its former luster...
...late 18th century. In that formal, opulent era, imperial collectors sent a steady stream of exotic flora from the newly acquired lands of Africa and America, and the first plantings were made in what was to become the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In those heady years, Robert Thornton, a physician and amateur botanist, spent his passion and his fortune commissioning paintings and engravings that he hoped would become a national treasure. The Temple of Flora (New York Graphic Society; Ill pages; $35) is an exquisite review of his labor. Bankrupted by printing costs and later ridiculed for the romantic style...
DIED. Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 68, founder and board chairman of Litton Industries, who was architect of the modern management concept of conglomerates; of cancer; in Los Angeles. In 1953 he bought Litton, a tiny electronics company, and made it a huge conglomerate, acquiring some 40 firms that produced 200 products. As an Army Air Forces colonel in World War II, he won fame as the inventor of a "statistical control" system to keep track of the military's global resources. In 1946, he and nine Army colleagues moved to the financially ailing Ford Motor Co., where they were nicknamed...
...TOWN by Thornton Wilder...
Finally, it was the eleventh-hour intercession of Thornton Bradshaw, the new head of NBC's parent company RCA, that seems to have convinced Brokaw. After a sleepless weekend at a retreat on Long Island-and a sharp reminder from his 13-year-old daughter at summer camp to "let me know what you decide; I don't want to have to read it in the newspapers"-Brokaw made his choice. Said he: "I have been here for 15 years. I just couldn't find enough reasons to walk out the door...