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Word: thompsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Noel. In Buenos Aires, Christmas was certain to be one of the hottest days of summer, and most of the TIME staff would undoubtedly top off the day by going swimming. It was just as certain to be a white Christmas in Moscow, where Bureau Chief Craig Thompson and his wife were pointing for a Christmas Eve party at Spasso House, home of U.S. Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Bedell Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Perhaps the most startled author of the week was brooding Eugene O'Neill. He has "Seraphic Sex Appeal," an artists' agent named Leora Thompson told the press. She put him in a special beauty class with Symphony Maestro Dimitri Mitropoulos, Tyrone Power, General Omar Bradley, and Irving Berlin. "It seems like a light from the cosmos shines in their eyes," said she. "Sanctified sex is what it really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Movers & Shakers | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Holiday Business. In Detroit, 225-pound union President Herbert Thompson, with an eye to rising food costs, set forth the new wage demands of the Santa Claus Union (C.I.O.), explained: "They like us chubby, and we have to eat to stay this way." In Richmond, Ind., Santa Claus Clifford Oldham, after listening to two-year-old Patty Pike's Christmas wishes, handed her an apple, got it right back. Said Patty: "Peel it." In Newark, Santa Claus Herman Quaas was haled into court. The charge: refusal to take the city's health test for all Santa Clauses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...James's wife Romelle had babies a day apart (see MILESTONES). Then the Advertising Research Foundation reported that she is the columnist with most reader appeal to U.S. women. My Day, according to the survey, is read by 37% of women newspaper readers. (Then come George Sokolsky, Dorothy Thompson and Westbrook Pegler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Her Week | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...Boston University Jan. Thurs. 30 *Boston College Feb. Mon. 3 *Holy Cross Wed. 5 +Junior Olympics Sat. 8 *Army Mon. 10 *B.A.A. Sat. 15 *Dartmouth Wed. 19 *Princeton Sat. 22 *Army Wed. 26 *Dartmouth Mar. Sat. 1 *Yale Mon. 3 *Cornell Wed. 5 *Williams Sat. 8 *Yale Fri. 14 *Thompson Trophy at Toronto or Montreal (tentative)--two days. Varsity Swimming Dec. Sat. 14 Alumni Wed. 18 M.I.T. Jan. Sat. 11 Brown Feb. Sat. 8 Army Sat. 15 *Columbia Sat. 22 Navy Wed. 26 Dartmouth Mar. Sat. 1 Princeton Sat. 8 Yale Fri. 14 *Rutgers Sat. 15 *Pennsylvania Fri. 21 *Eastern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Sports Schedules | 12/13/1946 | See Source »

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