Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alcoholic author, a chronicler of middle-class American life in books like Main Street and Babbitt. She was a foreign correspondent. They married in 1928, Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson, and soon found that their temperaments didn't mix. Now the story of their stormy relationship will be told in Strangers, opening March 4 on Broadway. "Thompson was a great, great force in American life and, along with Eleanor Roosevelt, the most successful woman in the U.S.," says Lois Nettleton, who will play the challenging role...
Several members of the Harvard faculty expressed approval of Lamar's appointment. "Wow! That is one of the nicest pieces of news that I've ever heard," James C. Thompson Jr., Curator of the Nieman Fellowships said yesterday...
...Joel (H) 2:03.92; 3. Adams (H) 2:11.08. 50-yd. butterfly--1. Droppo (C) 29.45; 2. Fortin (C) 29.51; 3. McAree (H) 31.29. Three-meter diving--1. Stone (H); 2. Gustafson (C). 100-yd. breaststroke--1. Joel (H) no times; 2. Poirier (C); 3. Thompson (C). 200-yd. freestyle relay--1. UConn (Toblason, Dropo, Sochanchak, Langenahn) 1:45.97; 2. Harvard 1:48.60; 3. Harvard (no time). Ivy League Basketball Ivy All Penn 3-0 11-3 Brown 3-0 5-8 Yale 2-1 7-7 Columbia 2-2 9-6 Dartmouth 1-2 9-5 Princeton...
...Curtis Barren, a Chicago AMC dealer, sold 37 four-wheel-drive Jeeps in five days (vs. a typical three or four). And with so many offices and factories idle, tens of thousands of housebound workers found themselves with a few days of holiday they had not expected. Governor James Thompson, after appealing to President Carter to declare 22 northern Illinois counties a disaster area, took a vacation - to Florida. After two days of being roasted by the local press, he flew back into Chicago to suffer along with his constituents as they received a familiar forecast: more snow...
...Elaine's had motives to blue-pencil Foster: unforgotten literary feuds, unhealed editorial schisms, unfavorable reviews, stolen story ideas, purloined wives. It also turns out that Foster's murder-as puzzled out by a hero who blends the best characteristics of hard-drugging Rolling Stone Writer Hunter Thompson and a freelancer named Rosenbaum-has much to do with Watergate. Many journalists consider that scandal their calling's finest hour. Foster, writes Rosenbaum, "caught the crest of the wave of media fever that engulfed mid-Seventies America. Woodward and Bernstein brought down a President; Redford and Hoffman enshrined...