Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noticed that tenseness was hurting Bertoia's swing at the plate. Tiger Trainer Jack Homel took the message to Reno, and the young man (22) promptly tried Equanil, later switched to Sedamyl. Reno, it turned out, was not the first Detroit athlete to try tranquilizers. Says Osteopath Richard Thompson, team physician for the Detroit Lions football team: "We used them on at least five Lions last year, and we intend to continue to use them." The Tigers' Dr. Luther Leader thinks that Bertoia can soon dispense with the pills. Says Reno: "I wouldn't give them...
Nick Lamont led the Crimson scoring, picking up four goals and one assist. Captain Phil Hunder followed, with three goals and six assists. Bob Dakin and John Righter got one tally and one assist each and Dave Sweet, John Gould, Dave Thompson, and Tom Plaut each scored once...
...first day Brownell arrived in Washington he saw a Negro family being thrown out of a restaurant. The Brownell Justice Department took the Thompson restaurant case out of the hands of an uncooperative local prosecutor, soon won a court victory abolishing segregation in Washington restaurants. Brownell followed un with unpublicized conferences with businessmen and city officials, helped bring about integration in the parks, playgrounds, theaters and other public places of the nation's capital. A Justice Department brief helped persuade the Interstate Commerce Commission to outlaw segregation on interstate trains and buses. Brownell invited Southern transportation-company heads...
Pete Reider led the lone Crimson sweep as he, Phil Williams, and Bill Thompson finished one-two-three in the mile. Reider outsprinted Williams to the tape in 4:15.6, a meet record. Later, he nosed out Dyke Benjamin in the two mile, setting another meet record...
...last week, while he was up North foraging for more industry, reaction finally went into action. Nineteen old-guard legislators caucused in Jackson, formed an anti-constitution committee. Named to head it were two longtime Coleman adversaries: Senate President Pro Tern Earl Evans Jr. as chairman and Representative Thompson McClellan as vice chairman. Behind their move was the fact that oxcart legislators from the Delta and Coleman's own hill counties are afraid that a new constitution will apportion them out of jobs and funnel more revenue to the fast-growing cities...