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When TIME'S Education Editor Bruce Barton Jr. was writing a cover story on Robert M. Hutchins (TIME, Nov. 21, 1949), then chancellor of the University of Chicago, one of the many men he interviewed was Playwright Thornton Wilder. Barton found Wilder to be one of the best authorities on Hutchins. Wilder and Hutchins first met at college (Oberlin and Yale), and Hutchins later invited Wilder to serve on his faculty at Chicago...
...last week's cover story on Wilder, the tables were turned. Interviewed in Pasadena, Hutchins announced to a TIME correspondent: "I am the greatest living authority on Thornton Wilder. I think it is true that he is my best living friend; all the others have drunk themselves to death...
...even "the greatest living authority" wasn't enough to produce the rounded picture of Wilder that Barton needed to write his cover story. In addition to interviews with a number of the writer's other friends and early associates, Barton and Researcher Marjorie Burns spent a day with Wilder's sister Isabel at her home in New Haven...
...written comparatively little. And he has enough to write about to fill those 150 years he would perhaps like to live. Even if he never writes another book or another play, however, the world in general and the U.S. in particular will certainly consider itself much obliged to Thornton Wilder...
...With half a tongue in cheek, Wilder likes to say that the first paragraph of The Woman of Andros is "one of the most beautiful in the English language." The paragraph begins: "The earth sighed as it turned in its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan...