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...John Thornton and Jim Levy led the team to the home-court win with decisive 6-1, 6-0 and 6-2, 6-0 victories. Thornton is the number one man and Levy the number two man on the freshman tennis team...
...Thornton and Bob Stockman, who form the squad's top doubles team, won their match 2-6, 7-5, 6-3. Coach Corey Wynn '40, said Thornton and Stockman have been playing together for a couple of years already, and look like they will be a strong duo all season long...
...then Farmer Brown will frown on the old briar patch and call it wasteland and threaten to clear away all the bushes and trees," wrote Author Thornton Burgess in 1947, in "The Old Briar Patch." But in the end Farmer Brown always decided to save the patch - and so last week did the town of Sandwich, Mass. (pop. 5,000). By unanimous vote, the 800 citizens decided to spend $200,000 to buy up 57 acres of meadows, ponds and forest, including the five acres of bull and cat briars that har bored such Burgess creatures as Reddy Fox, Bobby...
...energy and inventiveness helped make Litton the pioneer in the conglomerate field. Thornton and Ash founded the company in 1953 with a $1.5 million loan. Today, though shaky, Litton is the 35th largest industrial company in the U.S. and the nation's eleventh largest defense contractor. But since the stock had dropped to 13¾ (it once was 120⅜), Ash's holdings in Litton are worth only $3,000,000; his total personal assets come to about $9,000,000. He announced last week that his Litton stock would be sold and the proceeds placed...
...years, no one built a new legitimate theater on Broadway. Now there is one: the Uris Theatre, with 1,896 seats, at the base of a new 50-story office building. To celebrate its opening, a crowd of Broadway luminaries-including Ethel Merman, Thornton Wilder, Fred and Adele Astaire and a five-year-old girl named Tallulah Bankhead 2nd (the star's great-niece)-showed up to watch a new musical, Via Galactica. They also searched a gold-lettered list to see who was among the 123 names on Broadway's first hall of fame. First...