Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plot. The story began last spring, when two undergraduates, A. R. ("Tony") Thompson and David R. Jones, decided that Oxford needed a bang-up spoof. It had not really had one since after World War I, when an undergraduate posed as "the eminent Dr. Emil Busch" of Frankfurt and lectured on psychoanalysis. Thompson and Jones started their 1952 campaign by capturing the Heretics Club. They first joined as members, then worked their way up to positions as chairman and organizing secretary. Without telling their 120 fellow Heretics what they were up to, they made up a list of guest speakers...
...play Dr. Helai, Thompson and Jones recruited Undergraduate Patrick Dromgoole of the University Dramatic Society. They prepared an elaborate set of notes for him, hired a professional from a London film studio to make him up. They browned his hands & face, pasted his sideburns on, tried in vain to mold him an appropriate putty nose. The whole process took so long that Dromgoole did not even have time to rehearse. With his unfamiliar notes clutched in his hand-but without his thick-lensed glasses-Dromgoole went forth to face his audience...
...Toulouse Lantrectable." Nash's lyrics are set to pleasant music, though none of the tunes is likely to stick with you as far as the subway station. One which might is Roll Along Sadie, a lively number which suggests that Anita Loss might have been kinder to Sadie Thompson than Somerset Maugham...
Viscount Gage, who claims descent from a supporter of King John's in his war with the barons, had his pedigree lopped by 200 years. The best proved ancestor Pine could give Lady (Harriet Kathleen Grace) Thompson, whose family had for generations enjoyed descent from Odo, brother-in-law of William the Conqueror, was one Oliver Grace, a 16th century M.P. from Tipperary. "I'm challenging Burke's to show by what authority they make our family suffer this indignity," said the outraged Lady...
...Freshman Debate Council last night elected officers for the 1952-53 season. Those chosen were: Cliff F. Thompson, president; Robert M. O'Neil vice-president; George M. Fredrickson, treasurer; Elliott D. Wilder, home secretary; Norman D. Connon, corresponding secretary; and Ruben Gittes, public relations...