Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unheeded Plea. Mrs. Ayrton Gould, a Labor M.P., had her own objections to the death sentence. She said it demoralized prison personnel and made prison jobs repulsive to able people. She recalled the case of Edith Thompson, hanged 25 years ago for helping her lover dispose of her husband. Mrs. Thompson had fainted before her execution. Her limp body was dragged to the gallows. Said Mrs. Gould: "That execution was so horrible that after it, the hangman committed suicide,* one of the wardresses who was present went mad, and the chaplain had a very bad nervous breakdown; and every single...
...Television," said J. Walter Thompson's Kennett W. Hinks, "provides advertising with a new tool." How is the tool to be used? Neither he, nor anyone else, seemed to know...
Born. To Captain John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, A.U.S., 25, son of the president-elect of Columbia University, and Barbara Jean Thompson Eisenhower, 21: their first child (and Ike's first grandchild -see PEOPLE), a son; at West Point, N.Y. Name: Dwight David II. Weight...
...able Journalist Kenneth Stewart agrees that there have been "many stupid, many dull, many reactionary and many ridiculously belated awards." Among the newsmen who get prizes from Stewart and Binder (but never got Pulitzers): Heywood Broun, Raymond Clapper, Webb Miller, H. L. Mencken, A. T. Steele, Dorothy Thompson...
Tenth Commandment. In Little Rock, Ark., Collector of Internal Revenue Horace E. Thompson straightened out the case of a bachelor who had been claiming his neighbor's wife & children as tax exemptions...