Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the field is no longer oriented to the professional musician and specialist. Under department head Randall Thompson, a concerted effort is being made to attract students who are still unsure of their field of concentration. Much of the technical barbed-wire once felt to surround the field has been removed...
...department boasts men like Walter H. Piston and Thompson, two of the top four or five composers in the country, and Otto J. Gombosi and Stephen D. Tuttle, two of the nation's top musicologists...
...Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford by the grace of Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, was an arrogant, auburn-haired New England dandy with a taste for rich widows and a talent for cultivating royalty. Egotistical and a thoroughgoing snob, he deserted the colonies during the American Revolution and went into the pay of the British. But for all his faults, he was a remarkable scientist. In a bright, admiring new book, An American in Europe (Rider & Co., London), British Journalist Egon Larsen celebrates the 200th birthday of "the insufferable genius...
Fireworks & Philosophy. A merchant's apprentice in Salem, Mass., young Ben Thompson had managed to become something of an astronomer by the time he reached his teens. He was only 13 when the Stamp Act was repealed, but he volunteered to produce a fireworks exhibition for the Salem townsfolk. The display was one of his few failures: Ben was literally hoist with one of his own petards. After a long and painful recuperation, he attended classes in "experimental philosophy" at Harvard, studied a little medicine, and at 20 was teaching school in Concord. N. H. (formerly Rumford, Mass.). There...
Died. Malvina ("Tommy") Thompson, 61, longtime (since 1928) personal secretary to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who once described her as "the person who makes life possible for me"; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...