Word: thompson
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Young Wall Street Broker W. Lockwood Thompson, expectably enough, is an Episcopalian; but all he really believes in is old money and old family (twelve generations), and he observes that faith by celebrating 365 Condescension Days a year. This condescension drips like ungentle rain on anyone beneath-club stewards, upstairs maids, college deans, headwaiters, and Mike Connor, an upstart Irish colleague in his uncle's brokerage house. Then, at age 30, "Lock" suddenly suffers a rupture in his social conscience, a vestigial organ that probably never bothered a Thompson before...
...Providence Friars had won 197 games and lost only 56 in ten years. They have won two National Invitation Tournament championships (1961 and 1963), supplied the pros with such players as New York's Johnny Egan, St. Louis' Len Wilkens and Boston's John Thompson. But as they moved into this season, the odds were that their record would dwindle. Only one starter was still around from last year's squad that won 20 games and went to the N.C.A.A. playoffs. None of the preseason polls picked Providence to finish among the nation...
...most bewildered player on the course was Rocky Thompson, 25, who found himself leading the field by two strokes with 18 holes to play. "I didn't even make the golf team at the University of Houston," said Thompson-and faded back into obscurity by bogey-ing three straight holes on the last round. That gave the lead to an even less likely prospect: Bruce Crampton, 29, a stocky, stoical Aussie who has played in practically every tournament since he joined the U.S. pro circuit in 1957, and whose 1965 winnings, going into last week's Crosby, totaled...
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. The nation's late "poet laureate" was too complicated a man to take full shape through this correspondence alone, but it is a thorough and delightful selection and promises much for Editor Thompson's forthcoming official biography...
...special citation of unquestionable merit was given to the 18-minute experimental masterpiece called To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid, which so far has only been shown at the Johnson's Wax Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. The picture will not be shown anywhere else until after the fair closes next autumn...