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Ferber was telling the truth, it was certainly not the whole truth about Texas. And in the film, though Director George Stevens has pulled some of Author Ferber's wilder punches. Texans will probably still find plenty to holler about. But moviegoers in other parts of the world will surely find even more to cheer at. In the hand of a master moviemaker. Giant has been transformed from a flashy bestseller into a monumental piece of social realism...
...Amos N. Wilder, who delivered the funeral oration, said that "his worth as an individual was shown by the cordial appreciation of him by leading figures in the Yard." Brown was a personal friend of the last four University presidents...
...original "Our Town"--from Thornton Wilder's famous play--was painted as the ideal site for a relocated university by Paul Cummings, Jr., editor of the weekly Peterborough Transcript, Mrs. Florence Connell, the town bookkeeper, and selectman Forrest Mercer...
Also participating in the service will be Dean Douglas Horton, Amos N. Wilder, Hollis Professor of Divinity, and a recent addition to the school's faculty, Richard R. Niebuhr, assistant professor of Theology...
...speeches and friends' donations; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Stephen Vincent Benet...