Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quiet One" is the story of a ten-year old boy, Donald Peters (Donald Thompson), who has grown up in an atmosphere of hate and poverty in the slums of Harlem. After several petty felonies, Donald is taken to the Wiltwyck School, where counsellors and psychiatrists try to help him by erasing the scars on his mind caused by his unhappy home life. The scenes of Donald's rejection by his mother, his unhappy life with his grandmother, and his exclusion from the society of other boys, are told in a long flashback of the boy's thoughts...
...showed affection for Cook's offerings as soon as it saw them. Wilde led off the top of the first inning with a long home run over Bob Thompson's head in right field. Agganis' single, Cook's error on Hurley's bounder, a line triple by Gayzagian, and Lyons' single produced three more runs before the Crimson could get the third...
...edited Glamour for almost two years, then did a stint on Liberty and Look before she joined Seventeen, which her old friend Helen Valentine was running. Since then Mrs. Thompson has commuted to Manhattan every day with her adman husband, John Beaton (twice-married Alice Thompson uses her first husband's name in business) from their ten-room farmhouse in Fairfield, Conn. At home, Mrs. Thompson does much of her work and at home she often finds out exactly what her readers want to hear about. Her daughter, Judy, is just...
...played until 6 to two customers, a janitor and some sleepy waiters. Recently, when Gypsy Rose Lee walked out on a club date at the last minute, Berle stepped in and put on a two-hour show. Last year, when a mishap forced Kay Thompson out of her act at Le Directoire, a frantic owner was assured: "Don't worry. Berle's in the house." Milton put on the show...
...Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Premieres of Paul Hindemith's Concerto for Flute and Randall Thompson's Third Symphony...