Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, longtime mayor and boss of Chicago, who died last March leaving some $2,000,000 in safe deposit boxes but no will (TIME, April 10), made news again when $250,000 of the money changed hands in an out-of-court settlement. The quarter-million went to his former secretary-nurse, Ethabelle Green, who had sued for half the estate, claiming that Big Bill promised it to her in return for the "care and affection" she bestowed upon him "as a daughter" for twelve years before his death...
Frederick Coolidge Crawford, loquacious, sparkish president of Cleveland's potent Thompson Products, Inc. (aircraft and automotive valves, pistons and bearings) and board chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, was the witness whose evidence turned out unexpectedly. On the basis of some ten days spent in touring France, Belgium and Luxembourg, Crawford reported thus...
Almost everyone who has read The Chambered Nautilus knows that the elder Oliver Wendell Holmes was a doctor. But not many know or remember that John Keats, Oliver Goldsmith, Friedrich Schiller, Tobias Smollett, George Crabbe, Robert Bridges, Francis Thompson, and Lieut. Colonel John McCrae (In Flanders Fields) were also medical men. So was Thomas Dunn English, the man who wrote Ben Bolt. Most of these writers were doctors only incidentally, and almost none of their poems in the anthology refer to medicine (exception: Holmes's The Morning Visit...
...Awful Condition. Thereafter, until his death in 1907, Wilfred Meynell and his poetess-wife Alice took care of Francis Thompson. They sent him to a hospital, then to the monastery at Storrington in Sussex-a country of Roman roads, rolling fields, abandoned chalk mines, rooks and sheep. Later, at the Franciscan monastery at Pantasaph in Wales, where he spent three years Thompson was forbidden money, even for postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious...
This book by Father Terence Connolly, chairman of the Department of English at Boston College, is not a conventional biography of Thompson. It is a simple, straightforward record of Father Connolly's pilgrimage to the places in England where Thompson lived and suffered. Its chief merit is its warm picture of English Catholic life, beginning with a superb portrait of Wilfred Meynell (now 92) at home among his Thompson mementos...