Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Push-Pull Power. Even in such company, a 29-year-old pressman for the Los Angeles Times stood out from the start. Calm, calculating Marion ("Mickey") Thompson had put together an $8,000 streamliner that seemed to howl with speed just standing still. For push-pull power, Thompson remade two 1957 Chrysler engines and geared the first to the front wheels and the second to the back. To soup up the engines to a total of 850 h.p., Thompson and his buddy, Fred Voigt, added a magneto to each for hot-spark firing (standard ignition gradually weakens as engine speed...
...Driving his aluminum-clad streamliner powered by two souped-up Chrysler engines with a total of 850 h.p., Marion ("Mickey") Thompson, 29, a pressman for the Los Angeles Times, whistled at 272.3 m.p.h. over Utah's Bonneville salt flats in the 10th national speed trials, the fastest speed ever recorded by an American driver or an American-built...
...whose speeches in one year would "constitute a bridge of platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon." But to approving readers of her three-a-week column of political analysis, "On the Record" (147 papers), durable Dorothy Thompson was a snappish combination of Cassandra and Joan of Arc, the first and finest of political newshens...
Last week Dorothy Thompson went off the record. The time had come, she wrote in a farewell column, for her to "relive my life" in preparation for her ninth and most ambitious book: an autobiography that would also be a personal history of her war-torn times...
Solemn Suffragette. The daughter of a Methodist minister, Dorothy Thompson grew up in upstate New York. Solemn, pudgy and 20, she flounced into Buffalo in 1914 after graduating from Syracuse University, toured the state as a low-paid, high-pressure suffragette for three years, then drifted in and out of a job as an advertising copywriter in Manhattan...