Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adams House will again compete with the Lowell Opera next spring. After a year's lapse Adams House will return to opera with a performance of "The Mother of Us All," by Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein. The tentative date is for March...
Musically, the opera is a pioneer work since it covers a neglected field--the midwestern musical tradition. The simple, strongly harmonic folk songs in Thompson's score are traceable to English folk music in Anglo-Saxon times...
Coach Bill McCurdy has seven top runners who start in every race, assuming they are free from sickness. Captain Dyke Benjamin, Bill Gillen, Jim Schlaeppi, and Bill Thompson are regular scorers. The fifth scoring post is generally alternated between Mack Brown, Al Gordon, and Larry Jaquith...
Schlaeppi has been the most consistently high scorer this season, with two first places and two seconds. Thompson has followed him closely, and now ranks second on the team in scoring. Although Gillen is a strong runner and should be at the top, he has not been at his best throughout the season, because of a cold which has been persisting...
...Star Farmer, Hunter Roy Greenlaw, found himself at 16, when his father died, running his family farm near Fredericksburg, Va.; he has built up his property from 385 acres and a few dairy cattle to nearly 800 acres and a herd of 200 Herefords. James Henry Thompson of Salem, Ore., Star Farmer in 1942, originally paid $15,000 for the property he now values at $55,000, lives in a modern ranch-style house. Ray Gene Cinnamon, of Garber, Okla., Star Farmer in 1947, began as a sheepherder, now operates an 800-acre farm and owns a producing oil well...