Word: thomsen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moment. In Omaha, Judge Arthur C. Thomsen, pondering a traffic damage suit, told the jury, "A careful driver ought reasonably to anticipate some vehicles making viatic use of the road," then added, "I have been waiting two years to get a case where I could use the word 'viatic...
...Tell. Despite the new glitter of big names, one of the most popular narrators of "kidisks" is Los Angeles' Mrs. Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen, 74, a bright-eyed grandmother who records the folk tales of her native Norway. (In 1911, while teaching school, she wrote them down in a book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon.) She had been telling the tales to her students and grandchildren for years but did not record them until 1944, and then for the Library of Congress. When RCA Victor heard the records, it hired...
...Thorne-Thomsen, whose royalty checks amounted to $10,000 last year, scorns sound effects ("I leave off that nonsense") and trick settings ("The simple phrase, 'Once upon a time,' has more magic than all the theatrical stunts in the world"). Said she: "I know how the old folks who made the stories in the beginning told them. I try to tell them the same...
...winning victory in 1943, he did not detail them. But the day after he spoke, vague outlines of his first steps could be seen. He reshuffled Germany's diplomatic representation in three important countries. To neutral Stockholm, whence Germany in the past sent out peace feelers, went Hans Thomsen, the steady, approachable, onetime Charge d'Affaires in Washington. To Spain, whose Mediterranean coastline confronts the Allies in North Africa, went Hans Adolf von Moltke, German Ambassador to Poland when that country was invaded. To Japan, replacing the tried & trusted militarist General Eugen Ott, went an economist, young Heinrich...
Then, as the Post-Dispatch's Marquis W. Childs reported last week, the State Department restrained the FBI from moving in. The gumshoes, it was thought, might upset negotiations with Germany for safe exchange of diplomatic personnel. But when Germany's Hans Thomsen and friends departed to take a little rest in West Virginia, the transmitter stopped. To the Post-Dispatch story, FCC last week added two definitive points: 1) every message sent had been decoded; 2) the Embassy sender had been neatly jammed the moment it started sending messages...