Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elected to the executive committee were: Rufus Mathewson '41, Leo Marx '41, Robert Seidman '41, Robert Stange '41, Charles Bridge '42, Frank Funser '42, Gabriel Jackson '42, Dana Reed '43, Harold Solomon '43, and William Thompson...
...Bell Syndicate reported Thompson columns already sold to 200 papers, with a total circulation...
Week before the Thompson shift General Hugh S(amuel) Johnson walked out on Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate (which discovered his unsuspected literary talents six years ago), signed up (at a reputed $50,000 a year) with Hearst's King Features. Explained the General, whose string has fallen more than 10% since election and his strong isolationist stand: "Some Scripps-Howard papers didn't seem to be very-sympathetic and I didn't want them to have to carry the column when they didn't want to." One such paper was the Tyler...
...Major Thompson switches outside Manhattan were: in Washington, from the Post to the Star; in Philadelphia, from the Inquirer to the Bulletin; a reappearance in Chicago in Frank Knox's News...
Kane's last word was "rosebud." Thompson (William Alland), the newsreel reporter, spends two feverish weeks in interviewing five people. Thompson talks to Kane's trollopish second wife (Dorothy Comingore), whom he tried to make a singer, finally established in the castle. There she passed the years assembling jigsaw puzzles until she walked out in boredom. Then there is Kane's rich guardian (George Coulouris) whom Kane hated; Kane's general manager (Everett Sloan), the sad, loyal, philosophical Jew who stuck by to the end; his former drama editor and best friend (Joseph Gotten) with whom...