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Word: thompsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under the direction of Harry 'Black Jack' Smith then. He taught football like it was war. Jeff Cravath was varsity coach. Between the two of them, I about lost interest in the game." Another man who helped ease Parry out of his football pads was Wilbur ("Moose") Thompson, U.S.C.'s 1948 Olympic shotput winner, who had watched the blond, well-larded freshman working out with the track team, and as soon as he got a chance, talked O'Brien into dropping all else for the shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great White Whale | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Mike Williams-Thompson, a longtime government information officer, argued in a recent book that royal public relations should be taken away from courtiers ("men with built-in sneers"), entrusted to expert publicists. If press-palace relations continue to deteriorate, he warned, the crown cannot long "survive as a symbol of permanence in an all too swiftly changing world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Cobweb Curtain | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Eloise, with Kay Thompson, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, Monty Woolley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...think about that? Did you? To get you out of that damned Proust style.' " Lowney, who only got past high school, takes a dim view of Proust, whom she calls "Frowst." Nor does she think much of "Kafkia" (Kafka), "Walter Stevens" (Wallace Stevens) or "Die-lane Thompson" (Dylan Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Housemother Knows Best | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

Although the team will miss the services of Ralph Perry, senior John Read could fill in the gap, as the rugged five-mile course is made for him. Either Dyke Benjamin or Bill Thompson will be the seventh starter for the varsity...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Eli Team Rated Over Crimson In Cross Country Championship | 11/9/1956 | See Source »

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