Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...introduction, provides a convenient Who's Who. Grant Richards, publisher of such authors as Shaw and Housman, appears in the novel as Doron Oldcastle, "an ostentatious tyrannical turpilucricupidous half-licked pragmatic provincial bumpkin." Publisher John Lane, who published works by Anatole France, Ernest Dowson and Francis Thompson, is seen as Slim Schelm, "a tubby little pot-bellied bantam, looking as though he had been suckled on bad beer." Oldcastle commissions Crabbe to write a history of the Medici family for ?1 a week and ?10 on publication. Young writers today, who may count on being filled with...
...infiltrated with subversives and, wittingly or unwittingly, is now a captive of the Communist apparatus." ¶In Charlotte, N.C., Superior Court Judge Walter Johnston Jr. denied an N.A.A.C.P. request for the release of two Monroe Negro boys from the state reform school. The boys, David Simpson, 8, and James Thompson, 10, were locked up on Oct. 29 after a white mother complained that the older boy had forced her seven-year-old daughter to kiss him. The boys' version of the story: they were playing down in a culvert with several other white boys and girls; there...
Abbott finished second in the shot to Stew Thompson of the New York Athletic Club, topping B.U.'s Eino Keerd and Larry Cafarella, who defeated him earlier in the season. Despite his fine effort, Bailey went unplaced in the weight event...
...Moscow last week came one request that the U.S. promptly granted. Through U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson, the Russians asked for a diplomatic visa permitting Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan to visit the U.S. for a fortnight or so early next month. One of three members of the old Stalin gang (the others: Premier Khrushchev, President Voroshilov) still surviving in the top ranks of the Soviet hierarchy, wily Armenian Mikoyan, 63, will officially be visiting the U.S. as the guest of Ambassador Mikhail A. ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, but Mikoyan's obvious purpose in making the trip is to talk...
...expansion costs have cut profits. Last week Sheraton announced that earnings for the six months ended Oct. 31 dipped to $1,810,881 from $2,481,549 in the same period last year. Another reason for the drop was that a subsidiary, Thompson Industries, Inc., which Sheraton bought in a burst of diversification in 1946 and which has grown into a $23 million-a-year auto-parts maker, suffered from the auto recession. Also, Sheraton has been building and buying so much that it plans soon to float a $25 million nonconvertible debenture issue carrying a fat 7½% interest...