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...Litton Industries conglomerate; of heart disease; in Carson City, Nev. After his original company grew to annual sales of $3,000,000 and became a rival to established electronic firms in the East, Litton sold his interests for $1,000,000 in 1953 to Entrepreneur Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton. While keeping the Litton name, Thornton transformed the company into a versatile giant which in 1971 had sales of over $2 billion...
Last year, Penn romped in the Heps, winning 19-40 over second place Cornel. That's not going to happen today. Penn's lost some of its big boys: Julio Plazza and Tom Thornton, among others. That they're not the team they were last year was made perfectly clear by Harvard. The Crimson downed the Quakers 27-28 on the same Van Cortland Park course on October...
This year may be a different story, although Penn still must be rated the favorite. Missing from last year's squad are stars Karl Thornton and Julio Piazza--both graduated--and Dave Merrick, who transfered to Michigan State...
Looking toward the future, Harvard's chances for overall success--which in recent years has meant defeating Penn--look fairly bright if the squad can coalesce. Penn's top runners, Julio Piazza and Karl Thornton, graduated last year, and Tom Merrick has left school, thus weakening the Philadelphia squad. The team remains strong, however, and will still be hard to best...
...questionable virtue. What the play point-blank suggests to the audience, in the moral pronounced before the final curtain, is that we should all free ourselves for some adventure in life. And with the small-town good sense that is so embarassing but so affecting in Our Town. Thornton Wilder recommends just enough excitement to keep us from longing unhappily when we are sitting quietly at home...