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Barbados PM honors nationals, Diaspora
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TORONTO:
ON HIS first official visit to Canada, Barbados prime minister David Thompson, has commended the Barbadian Diaspora for its contribution to the health and education sectors in Barbados. The prime minister was the featured speaker at the Barbados Charity Ball 2008 held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto last Saturday night.
"Many of you have sacrificed so that I the path of others will be less hard to travel," he told the sprawling audience inside the convention centre. Prime Minister Thompson told Barbadian Canadians that there is still much work to be done. He is ...
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Amos Niven Wilder, 97; author, poet, Harvard Divinity professor
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Amos Niven Wilder, poet, author, professor of divinity...Divinty School, and brother of the late Thornton Wilder, died Saturday of cancer. He was 97...and the works of his younger brother, Thornton, merged with his biblical studies in...
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Lifting Every Roof : A profile of Thornton Wilder.(Review)
Magazine article from: World and I
; ...College. She is the author of Thornton Wilder: His World (19??) and, most...local repertory groups, has given Thornton Wilder a reputation not unlike...find seven puzzled hearts." Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin...
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The enthusiast: a life of Thornton Wilder.
Magazine article from: National Review
; The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder IT IS AN odd experience to learn...Michael Gold took exception to Thornton Wilder's novel The Woman of...of civic pieties gave birth to Thornton Niven Wilder on April 17, 1897. He...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Dame Margaret Teyte (Maggie Tate), soprano, 1888; Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Russian leader, 1894; Thornton Niven Wilder, novelist and playwright, 1897; Lindsay Gordon Anderson, film, television and theatre director, 1923. Deaths...
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Gazette: Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Sir (Charles) Leonard Woolley, archaeologist, 1880; Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Russian leader, 1894; Thornton Niven Wilder, novelist and playwright, 1897; Lindsay Gordon Anderson, film, television and theatre director, 1923. Deaths...
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DEATHS
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...The Lady Gambles" and "The Web." AMOS N. WILDER Divinity Professor Amos Niven Wilder, 97, a literary critic, poet and former...the life and times of his younger brother, Thornton Wilder. DONALD A. BERRETH CDC Spokesman Donald A...
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Too Many Productions To Count.
Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
; ...Aug. 26--A. Tappan Wilder, nephew of the playwright...reviews so mixed that Wilder decided to take the bus...However, a musical of Wilder's "The Matchmaker...founding president of the Thornton Wilder Society) had...Wilder says Penelope Niven is writing a major biography...
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Actress Teresa Wright, 86; Won Oscar in 'Mrs. Miniver'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Provincetown, Mass., to understudy in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" on Broadway to ingenue...Westerns written by her first husband, Niven Busch: "Pursued" (1947) with...Kelly Busch of Clinton, Conn., and Niven Terence Busch of Indianapolis; and...
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The discoverer of death
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...J.K. Galbraith, Joe Meehan, Thornton Wilder, Bill and Babe Paley, and so on. Truman...success. At 42 he had surpassed even his wildest ambitions. He had escaped his troubled...at the corner of the ballroom as David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida and William F. Buckley...
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DIRECTOR JOHN HUSTON: THE GENUINE ARTICLE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Rhode Island to star in his son Danny's adaptation of Thornton Wilder's "Theophilus North." However, early in the shooting...and "Casino Royale," the strange film with David Niven, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen all playing James Bond...
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