Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agricultural missionary; Joseph Obi, 26, a onetime math teacher in a mission high school (who soon topped McPherson's honor roll); Isaac Grille, 21, a surveyor aiming for a degree in civil engineering; Daniel Onyema, 28, an accountant who wanted to be an electrical engineer; Emanuel Thompson, 24, a pharmacist studying' to be an orthopedic surgeon; Elijah Odo-kara, 21, a railway telegrapher who was taking a premedical course...
...stage a lot: she is Sadie Thompson, she is Tallulah cavorting at Bette Davis show, she is a hillbilly singer on TV, a straight singer of musicomedy songs, the slavey wife of a jealous, roughneck husband. She is not at all a dead weight: she knows how to command attention. But it's all a little like watching someone stay on a horse rather than perform as a rider; also a little as if two famous actresses were exchanging roles, and that, to complete the joke, Ethel Merman should turn up as Hedda Gabler. With Bette Davis not pacing...
...ready to close down. In time's nick, Huie found an angel: J. (for John) Russell Maguire, of Greenwich, Conn., who was operating principally as a Wall Street broker until the SEC forced him out for "flagrant violations" of the law. Later he made millions in manufacturing (Thompson submachine guns, electrical equipment, etc.) and oil. Last week Maguire's backing cost Huie the top section of his staff...
...FULTON THOMPSON Jackson, Miss...
...started to speak, Thompson and Jones waited anxiously, for sometimes the nearsighted Dromgoole seemed to be straying wildly from his notes. For long stretches at a time, he would blurt out fanciful ad libs ("I thought he would never stop," says Thompson). And then there was that terrible moment when he was asked about hashish ("He had obviously never heard of it!"). At another time, after reading, "Some medical people will tell you that opium makes your pupils small," Dromgoole apparently could find only a blank in his notes. But even in this crisis, the Heretics sat transfixed. "So what...