Word: thompson
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Architect Benjamin Thompson has, to his credit, taken considerable pains to make Soldiers Field Park into the theoretically good building that it is. Here are some of the things about it that sound great: It is built of red brick, so as to blend harmoniously into the neighboring Business School. Its four buildings are of various heights, rising backward from the river to provide everyone with a view, and various shapes, so as not to seem too monotonous and regimented. There are a series of interior pedestrian plazas, studded with trees and benches, for people to walk it. There...
...Bobby Thompson, who joined the team just last week, demonstrated that his game is in fine shape, carving out a 74 over the tricky Concord layout to capture medalist honors by four strokes. Thompson was fortunate to start his round on the backside, which is far less demanding than the treacherously tight front nine...
...sides are completely different." Thompson--who used his driver with abandon in his first nine to tally a 37--said yesterday. "I put the driver in my bag for a lot of the second nine and counted on hitting the low irons in," the new team member said. Thompson's strategy paid off as he produced a 37 matching on the backside...
Using yesterday's scores, coach Tim Taylor and Captain McNealy have tentatively decided the line-up for tomorrow's showdown in New Haven. Thompson, Ball, Paxton and Purdy will join Vik, Fitzgibbons and McNealy for the trip...
...this new climate, the largest agencies generally have managed to maintain their relative shares of client dollars; J. Walter Thompson, the doyen of the agency business, clung to its No. 1 position last year with $900 million in worldwide billings, followed by aggressive Young & Rubicam with $800 million and McCann-Erickson with $775 million. But in an era of uncertainty, even Thompson's primacy is no longer as secure as it once was. The agency now ranks second behind Y & R in U.S. billings and second to McCann-Erickson in foreign volume, though ahead of both in combined...