Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Colonel Edward K. Thompson, head of our Picture Bureau before the war, holds the Legion of Merit... Writer Hugh Fosburgh (now 2nd Lieut. Fosburgh) has the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf clusters...and Captain David Walter Allard of our Cleveland staff has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart and the Croix de guerre with palm for "extraordinary heroism in action." (Allard volunteered to swim the Seine under heavy fire to scout out German positions - was wounded getting back - "despite great pain gave detailed accounts of the enemy disposition that contributed greatly to the success...
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According to Professor Allport, the opponents of the bill, such as the author columnist Dorothy Thompson, fear that such a government poll would do away with representative government, and put "too much pressure" on the elected representatives. In answer, Allport points to the powerful lobbies in Congress, and counters, "if pressure is going to be applied, it is better for the people to apply it not special interest groups...
...Sadie Thompson (adapted from John Colton's and Clemence Randolph's Rain by Howard Dietz and Rouben Mamoulian; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke and Mr. Dietz; produced by A. P. Waxman) is more frost than Rain. Behind the famous play of the missionary who brought a scarlet woman to God only to be himself ensnared by the Devil there was a steady theatrical drive. In Sadie Thompson that drive is halted by every song, every dance, every stage procession...
...Sadie Thompson might have recouped many of its dramatic losses with a winning run of songs & dances. But Composer Duke's tunes are undistinguished and the dancing, although better, is uneven: a montage of scenes from Sadie's life has real choreographic color, and last season's Merry Widow team of Milada Mladova and Chris Volkoff have style and skill; but there is too much regulation South Seas wriggling and a generally poor ballet...