Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Staff Sergeant Bill Thompson, whose home address is Friendship Avenue, Pittsburgh, was the friendliest Yank in all the crowded British Isles. He bounced down the street of his West Country station, shook hands with anyone & everyone, boasted: "I'm the father of the Heanor quads. I want, the whole world to know...
...Wife. Trim, sensitive Mrs. Eleanor Thompson answered the long-distance phone in Pittsburgh. A New York Daily Newsman told her about her husband's progeny. She exclaimed: "Can you imagine! Quadruplets! That never happened in his family. Not even twins." No, she would not give Bill a divorce. Said her priest: "There is no way the marriage can be broken under the laws of the Church." Said her father: "Let him sweat...
McKinnon felt confident of at least 30,000 circulation. His news and features lineup: United Press, Dorothy Thompson, Drew Pearson, Samuel Grafton, Walter Lippmann, Superman, Dick Tracy, Joe Palooka, others...
...professional heavyweight finalists were also two Americans − Claude ("Kill er") Brown of Louisville, Ky., a dead-ringer for Tony Galento, outpointed Sailor Harry Thompson of Many, La. Both were carried piggyback to the ring to keep their feet dry. The American who worked the hardest was former world heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, who refereed most of the bouts...
...Will It Work?" Author Heiden, son of a German trade-union official, has studied this face for 23 years - following Hitler, says Dorothy Thompson, "like a Javert tracking down...