Word: thompson
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Leading the JV squad is scoring with two goals each were Ronnie Thompson and Dick Blakey. Mike Tyler, Bill Golden, and Bob McCoy contributed the other three goals...
...forger of Stone Age implements, came to be admired among archaeologists as the fabulous "Flint Jack." Two illiterate London mudrakers named Billy and Charley produced and buried thousands of "ancient" metal objects, and such objects are known as "Billys and Charleys" to this day. An ingenious forger named Peter Thompson, actually a carpenter and builder living near Regent's Park in the 1840s, not only forged 17th century "master drawings," but also invented the master. He named the man Captain John Eyre, and after picking a onetime lord mayor of London, Simon Eyre, as a likely ancestor, wrote...
Though Eyre's "drawings" deceived London for quite a spell, the museum itself was in this case above reproach. Twice it turned down the opportunity to buy Eyre's Southwark Fair. But in the end Forger Thompson won out anyway. The museum became so intrigued by his work that it bought up the whole Eyre collection as an admirable example of an artful forger...
Died. Archibald Thompson ("Doc") Davison, 77, small, spry conductor of the famed Harvard Glee Club from 1912 to 1933, who sounded a serious note throughout the collegiate musical world by substituting Mendelssohn for Mrs. Casey's Boarding House in the club's repertory, led the troupe on a European tour in 1921 and in 35 concerts with the Boston Symphony; of uremia; in Brant Rock, Mass...