Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matinee Theater (Wed. 3 p.m., NBC). House of the Seven Gables, with John Carradine, Marshall Thompson...
Budapest. Replacing Christian Ravndal in Hungary: Edward Thompson Wailes, 53, Foreign Service officer since 1929 and the department's Assistant Secretary for Personnel and Administration before going to troubled, racist South Africa. Tall, balding Tom Wailes, a specialist on Europe, will report on a Communist satellite that appears to be in considerable ideological ferment...
...American works that have reached Europe through other groups have for the most part been of inferior quality. Woodworth wants to show Europe that this country is producing fine choral music of real substance and value. So he is scheduling works by such well-known names as Randall Thompson '20, Virgil Thompson '22 and Irving Fine '37, along with pieces by little known but talented men like Henry Leland Clarke '28, Karl Kohn '48 and Russell Woollen...
...This blowy motif runs throughout the film: death's advent is always heralded by wind-driven snow, rain or autumn leaves. A stately newcomer, Australia's Victoria Shaw, is introduced as Duchin's second wife, and a pair of clipped-accented moppets (Mickey Maga and Rex Thompson) perform as the Duchin child at different ages. Moviegoers may enjoy the rippling piano notes (actually played by Carmen Cavallaro) that made Duchin a society favorite during the '30s, and there is one pleasant scene in which Power plays a duet with a small Chinese boy during his wartime...
...Reckoning. In Minneapolis, Kans., Ross Thompson, 76, smashed into a parked car and knocked it into another car, drove 130 feet farther down the street and crashed into a third car, stopped, walked back to survey the first scene of contact, returned and backed out into a fourth car, shifted into forward gear, struck his wife and bounced her off the hood, inflicting three fractures, careened into a brick building, was hospitalized with his wife for multiple bruises...