Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson had done his part in the club's pennant drive, hitting .300 or a few points over or under and leading the league in stolen bases (25). Of the other four Negroes in the majors, the St. Louis Browns' Henry Thompson and Willard Brown had been released after a month's trial; Cleveland's Larry Doby was still hanging on, as a pretty impotent pinch hitter...
Last week the hapless St. Louis Browns, deep in the American League cellar, signed up Negroes 3 & 4. Ex-G.I.s Willard Brown and Henry Thompson were leading hitters on the Negro Kansas City Monarchs. In the first five games with the Browns, they got an unspectacular four hits between them. The crowd-pulling novelty was about over; Negroes would stand or fall as ballplayers, which was the way they wanted...
...Freshmen in Group 1 standing are Robert Ashenhurst, Jero W. Bruner, Geoffrey D. Bush, Thompson M. Clarke, Francis F. Chen, Hampton Davis, Oscar DePriest, Samuel I. Epstein, P. W. Gifford, Jr., S. William Green, Ulrich E. Kruse, Vaslilos G. Letson, Gavin Miller, James Schlesinger, V. E. Starzinger, and M. B. Yarmolinsky...
...problem of getting the news of Russia-and getting it out of Russia-is, as you know, a major concern of the U.S. and the world press. A corollary of this problem, the Soviet press itself, is the subject of a recent report by Craig Thompson, now home from a two-year tour of duty for TIME & LIFE in Moscow. The following excerpt from it may interest...
Married. Captain John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, 24, only son of the U.S. Army's chief of staff; and Barbara Jean Thompson, 20, a colonel's daughter; both for the first time; at Fort Monroe, near Norfolk...