Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jews and Negroes were "systematically excluded." Jurymen had to have $250 in real property. The Reds' lawyers argued that their clients all fell "within the classes discriminated against": Henry Winston and City Councilman Benjamin Davis were Negroes. The others had been "workers": Irving Potash was a furrier; Robert Thompson, a machinist; Gus Hall, a lumberjack; John Williamson, a patternmaker; Gilbert Green, a metalworker; Carl Winter, a draftsman; Jack Stachel, a capmaker; John Gates, now an editor of the Daily Worker (see PRESS), was a former construction laborer...
...Quiet One pictures the disappointments and fierce resentments of a young Negro boy (played by nonprofessional Donald Thompson) who has been abandoned by his parents and left to shift for himself with an unsympathetic grandmother. When his fears and confusion have made him into a sullen "incorrigible," he is sent to a school for boys and given psychiatric treatment...
...Critic Ralph Thompson pointed out in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, there was nothing really so surprising about Douglas' victory. "Those who hope to qualify as No. 1 popular novelist," wrote Thompson, "had better follow the formula . . .1) operate within a historical, costumed setting, or 2) develop a devotional theme. The Big Fisherman does both. The Naked and the Dead does neither...
...group from which the two posts will be filed includes Stan Thompson, Ray Rogers, Andre Sigourney, sandy Jones, Tom Conners, and Kevin Reilly. Jones former Oklahoma scholastic champion, seems the most likely candidate for the 155-pound chores with either Thompson or Connors stepping...
Jones saw some action last season before he brake his arm, and won by decision in the Wesleyan meet this year. Conners wrestled as a freshman last winter; Thompson, who decisioned his opponent in the MI'T match when he filled in at 175, would have to lose ten pounds to take the 165-pound assignment...