Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia University's Alice M. Ditson Fund has commissioned and premiered Menotti's The Medium, Virgil Thomson's Mother of Us All, symphonies by Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Randall Thompson...
...Beachcomber (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists). Asked who discovered the South Sea Islands, a schoolboy once replied: "Somerset Maugham." He was right, of course. Captain Cook found some geographical points, but he missed the emotional one that Sadie Thompson and Ginger Ted, the supreme remittance man in all literature, have supplied to millions. Ted is back again in this second screen version of The Beachcomber. This time Actor Robert Newton sees, as Charles Laughton in the 1939 version failed to, the low, colonial swank of the fellow, and plays it for the snickers it deserves...
Sound Money. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. was one of the city's biggest when Chase was founded in a one-room Broadway office in 1877 by John Thompson, a Wall Streeter with such an abiding admiration for Sound-Moneyman Salmon P. Chase. Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, that he named the bank for him. While the Manhattan Co.'s bank grew slowly, Chase grew rapidly. It took over so many other banks that it once had 84 directors...
Lesser Evil. In Portsmouth, Ohio, Judge Lowell Thompson dismissed a drunken-driving charge against Robert Fortenberry, 32, after hearing Fortenberry's explanation: in his home state of Georgia, police confiscate an auto if liquor is found in it, so rather than lose his new car after a traffic mishap, he drank the half-pint of whisky he had under the seat...
...Twice as many new novels are published today as in the early 1900s, but of the 1,300 published through November of this year, fewer than half will make a profit, i.e., sell 5,000 copies or more in bookstores. This year's fiction bestseller, Morton Thompson's Not As a Stranger, has sold slightly more than 175,000 copies (in comparison, Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit sold 450,000 copies in 1944; Harold Bell Wright's The Eyes of the World sold an advertised 750,000 copies in two months in 1914). This year, probably...