Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only three years ago, substantially the same Giant team as today's started the season like bushers. A converted outfielder named Whitey Lockman was learning to play first base. On third, another converted outfielder, Henry Thompson, was booting oftener than a cavalryman's cobbler. Such seasoned pitchers as Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen were giving away runs as if they were CARE packages...
...Former Acting Governor Melvin E. Thompson of Valdosta: amend the U.S. Constitution to give the states exclusive rights over the schools...
...endless charity appearances, and the amiable little extraversions (she once gratified an impulse "to feel a lion," reported that "he was very handsome"). In the end the audience sees her in the yellow leaf of her eighth decade, as she lives and works now with her second companion, Polly Thompson, in their Connecticut home-drying dishes, following her guide rail for a walk in the fields, choring through the morning mail, touching music in a radio, caught reading a volume in Braille beneath the bedclothes late at night...
...than a small company. When a big corporation makes a mistake on a new product, it can afford to drop it quickly and write off the investment. A small business, facing a loss it can ill afford, cannot. One of the costliest mistakes of diversification, says Thompson Products President John David Wright, is for a manufacturer to "stick with his product long after it should be dropped, to prove he was right." Another great problem is to find the new executives needed to make and sell a new product. Many a company falls into the trap of spreading its talent...
Readers of Lyons' Broadway gossip presumably shuddered momentarily before leaping to the next item, wondering whether the missing U.S. diplomat had disappeared behind the Iron Curtain. The fact, which was no secret to conscientious readers of the New York Times last week, was that Ambassador Thompson was hard at work in London conducting a behind-the-scenes effort with British experts to defuse a diplomatic time bomb-the problem of Trieste...