Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wade C. Thompson, instructor in English, stood before movie cameramen, national pressmen, and a crowd of 700 rambunctious students to support his thesis that "the anti-intellectual game is choked with cliches, sentimental mush, and too much sanctity...
...When Thompson and his opponent, Paul F. Mackesey, athletic director, were ushered to the platform amid booing, hissing, cheering undergraduates, the instructor appeared to be outnumbered by the athletic faction of the campus. But he appealed to the crowd to join "the dialogue," and proceeded in Socratic tones...
Mackesey used a serious, simple approach, citing the advantages of football and accusing Thompson of "seeking headlines and looking at education with one eye." The intelligentsia in the audience waited its turn, then took over the question period with sedate challenges to the director of athletics. Mackesey handled several of them with terse quips, like "I don't see any football players wearing halos," in answer to a question about the alleged sanctity of Brown football...
...Walter, her multimillionaire second husband, met sudden death when he was run down by a passing Citroên after alighting from a car in which sat his wife and Dr. Lacour. Inevitably this curiosity turned to the puzzling business of a famous American in Paris, U.S. Millionairess Margaret Thompson Biddle, who spent a night at the opera with Jean and Domenica-and died that night...
Plates of Gold. The daughter of Colonel William Boyce Thompson, who had built his fortune in South African diamonds and Montana copper, Montana-born Maggie Biddle had shared an estate estimated at $85 million on his death in 1930. She divorced a New York banker the following year and married Philadelphia Socialite Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the dashing soldier who subsequently became U.S. envoy to Norway and Poland (and is now adjutant general of the state of Pennsylvania). They, too, were divorced after the war, but still fond of the diplomatic high life, Maggie Biddle set up a Paris...