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...THORNTON WILDER...
Playwright Thornton Wilder is the good old white magician who once had us all handing chairs down theater aisles to feed a stage fire and save the suburb of Excelsior, N.J., from the ice age. He successfully launched Noah's ark from the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City-despite the fact that Mrs. Noah wouldn't let it shove off without Cain as well as Abel. Novelist Thornton Wilder has re-created 18th century Peru (The Bridge of San Luis Rey), and ancient Rome (The Cabala). In Our Town, he made Grover's Corners, N.H., into...
...operating retail outlets, they guarantee that the refineries will turn out products that are in demand. They also argue that their industry is intensely competitive. Says a Texaco spokesman: "No single company has as much as 12% of the crude production, refining capacity or product sales." Atlantic Richfield President Thornton Bradshaw sums up industry feeling about the charges: "Baloney...
...Gray has not slackened his pace a bit since he left Litton in 1971, when it appeared that he would have to wait too long for Chairman Tex Thornton and then President Roy Ash to step down. Gray moved to the presidency of Connecticut's United Aircraft Corp., world's largest maker of jet engines (Pratt & Whitney). Today he is launching a major diversification for the $2 billion-a-year company. Last week United made a deal to swap $750 million of its stock for the Signal Companies, headquartered in Beverly Hills. Signal had $1.5 billion in sales...
Number one man and captain John Thornton couldn't get untracked at all against Tiger star Jeff Oakes, and lost, 7-5, 6-3. Tim Black lost to Weller Evans, 3-6, 7-5, 1-6, at number three, while five man Jeff Weigand dropped straight sets to Mike Crost...