Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also began to work off the frustrations of his job in bars at night. Last week he stopped a convoy of trucks near his home with a carbine, rerouting it because, he said, it was making too much noise. The very next night the clatter of a Thompson submachine gun sounded near the Saigon River. Two American MPs headed toward the spot, found Cua in the middle of the street tipsily waving the Thompson...
Noon Wine is close in feeling to Peckinpah's prizewinning movie, Ride the High Country. A strange, withdrawn, harmonica-playing Swede (Per Oscarsson) arrives at the small Texas spread owned by an ignorant farmer named Thompson (Jason Robards Jr.). The Swede signs on as a handyman, and in the course of three years not only tunes up the farm operations to perfect pitch but slides, in his remote way, into the heart of the family...
Then, what seemed to be a quiet genre painting is suddenly ripped by violence. A stranger appears, announcing with grinning malevolence that the handyman has escaped from an insane asylum and must return. When the stranger pulls a knife, Thompson kills him. The rest of the play shows Thompson, acquitted by a jury, bleakly, desperately dragging his sickly wife (Olivia de Havilland) from one neighbor's house to another to defend himself and his deed. Then he blows his brains...
Yale's champions fumbled the opening kick-off on their own 40. Leverett's All-House halfback Ron Kram carried to the 5, where Jim Thompson crashed over to score. Thompson picked up two more points on a pitchout around right end, making it 8-0 with only minutes gone...
...Buddy is the Maury Wills of the drums") to such new guardists as Elvin Jones ("His artistry is almost beyond belief"). But perhaps his most avid fans are symphony percussionists. "He's the world's greatest living natural jazz drummer," says the Boston Symphony's Howard Thompson. "He plays faster with one hand than most of us do with two. He is rhythmically original. He has no cliches...