Word: thomason
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Died. Colonel John W. (William) Thomason Jr., 51, dashing Leatherneck litterateur; after a brief illness; in San Diego, Calif. A drawling, deadpan Texan, onetime reporter, as a 2nd Lieut. he snatched from Soissons, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne and Belleau Wood three decorations-as well as the hard-boiled anecdotes and swirling, on-the-spot sketches which first appeared as a book in his best-selling Fix Bayonets (1926). A decade ago he summed up his attitude toward Japan's early conquest in China with the prediction that he would die as a Marine Corps Brigadier General-leading...
...Corporal George Cafego (tailback on Tennessee's recent wonder team). The Western Lineup boasts Lieut. John Kimbrough (Texas Aggies' 220-lb. fullback who got $9,000 for six pro games last year) and three others of the high-scoring 1940 Aggies: Quarterback Marion Pugh, Halfbacks Jimmy Thomason and Bill Conatser...
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...most remarkable friendships in the newspaper business last week went on the rocks. Rare anywhere, let alone among publishers, has been the 35-year friendship of Tory Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick and Liberal Samuel Emory Thomason. Pals at Northwestern University law school, they founded the big law firm now known as Kirkland Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis. McCormick took over management of the Chicago Tribune in 1913; Thomason followed him five years later as business manager, rose to vice president and general manager. Thomason left him in 1927, started the tabloid Chicago Times in 1929. Chicago's only New Deal...
...Thomason, hopping mad, construed this as a direct slap at him. Waving aside his editorial writer, Warren H. Pearce, he took a day off to write a return blast, titled "The Integrity of Words." Excerpts: ". . . We proved that Hitler who stands for everything Americans don't stand for, likes the things the Tribune said it stood for. ... The ownership of rich properties does things to some people-to some newspapers. . . . Sometimes such owners mistake wealth and its power for greatness...