Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Days at the Races. In Los Angeles, granted a divorce after she testified that her estranged husband neglected his family by spending so much time and money on his five cars (a 1924 Maxwell, a custom-built Pinard, a 1952 Willys, a 1953 Morgan, a 1954 Packard), Mrs. Edith Thompson moaned in court: "Your Honor, I'm a sports-car widow...
Count Rumford, a title that Benjamin Thompson acquired through his service to the Elector of Bavaria, studied everything from biology to how to build a better fireplace. By careful study of air currents and the flow of warm and cold air in fireplaces he developed the throat, smoke shelf, and damper, which constitute the present non-smoking hearth...
...THOMPSON Arlington...
Victory in the foils competition was totally unexpected, for the varsity had previously lost this division to Trinity 5-4. Fencing foil for the Crimson against the Light Blue, Cliff Thompson and Hubert Hocutt both contributed two wins. In the sabre and epee competition, Columbia, last year's champions, rolled up 7 to 2 and 8 to 1 victories respectively...
Fencing at foil for the Crimson against the light Blue will be Hubert Hocutt, Captain Pete Boyee, Steve Schneider, and Cliff Thompson. At sabre will be Doug Runnels, Dave Silbert, and Mitchell Thomas. Bob Adair, Bill Chapple, and Bill Pierskalla will fence epee...