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Thornton Niven Wilder, novelist, playwright .................... Litt.D...
Cornell--Bow, John Ash; 2, Michael Bryson; 3, Donald Irving; 4, David Cox; 5, Peter Raymond; 6, Clinton Ayres; 7, Walter Herman; Stroke, Peter Sparhawk; Cox, Arthur Wilder...
Shambles at the Farm. Two days later the revolt spread 37 miles north to Rahway State Prison Farm, a converted reformatory holding an overflow of lesser toughs from the Trenton prison. At Rahway the riot was bigger, and wilder. Eighteen guards were on duty in the wing of one dormitory where the trouble started. As the convicts began rioting, tearing bedding and overturning steel bunks, guards on the first floor got out, herding 75 prisoners ahead of them. Nine other guards were grabbed as hostages by 231 convicts, who barricaded themselves on the second floor...
Perspectives' "pilot" issue is a handsome, 236-page slick-paper job with a full-color abstract design on the cover. Inside are reprints of articles by Selden Rodman, Meyer Schapiro, Thornton Wilder and others, poetry by Archibald MacLeish and Robert Lowell, and fiction by William Faulkner. The pilot issue, foundation officials explained, is not an exact standard by which to judge Perspectives; only about half the pilot articles will be in the first issue. Nevertheless, the pilot issue gave the whole project-unless substantially changed-the flavor of a "little magazine's" fragile view of American culture, blown...
...Wilder spoke during last year's spring term in Humanities 2 on the epic and the novel, and also gave a series of talks in Sanders Theatre...