Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their "Gaelic and Spanish . . . capacity for swift, passionate love" came the daughter whom they christened Santa Fe. Sante Fe Cameron is the slice of pineapple in this fruity, old-fashioned cocktail mixed by Anya Seton (daughter of Wild-Life Popularizer Ernest Thompson Seton), whose last novel, Dragonwyck, was one of 1944's bestsellers...
Repeat Performance. In Covington, Ky., police charged that Robert Thompson 1) parked a stolen car, 2) watched them find it and put it in a garage, 3) stole it again...
...Conducer Thompson Stone added force and precision to a fervent chorus that was obviously enjoying itself immensely. Its exuberance brought out the utmost from Handel's skillful use of such words as "Surely," "Wonderful," or "Hallelujah." The orchestral accompaniment, revised first by Mozart and later by Robert Franz, was capably played by 55 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Attitude? These critical straws from outside were not the only indications of how the wind was blowing. Onetime N.A.M. president Frederick Coolidge Crawford, bitterly hated by organized labor, but proud of his personal labor relations in his own open shop plants of Thompson Products, suggested that 1) it was management's job to increase productivity; 2) management was often at fault for labor troubles. Said he: "You sit in your office wondering what your workers are thinking. Do you know that the answer to your human-relations problem lies within the four walls of your plant? Go into your...
Elliott Roosevelt's famed Apriority bull mastiff, Blaze, 125 lbs., won a bloody encounter with 20-lb. Fala on the lawn at) Hyde Park. He lost to Malvina Thompson, Eleanor Roosevelt's companion-secretary. When Blaze charged in a surprise attack, plucky Miss Thompson snatched the Scottie into her, arms. Blaze leaped. He got 1) Fala, 2) Miss Thompson (on the left index finger). Blaze tried to finish Fala. Miss Thompson conked Blaze with a rock. Fala went to the vet for a patching-up, Blaze (by Elliott's order) went to the vet to be destroyed...