Word: thomson
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Former HYRC president John R. Thomson '57 is representing National Youth for Eisenhower-Nixon this week as a Special Task Force to Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, and Pennsylvania...
Mozart: Requiem (the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Westminster Choir, conducted by Bruno Walter on a Columbia LP; Vienna Symphony and State Opera Chorus conducted by Eugen Jochum on Decca; Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Academy Chamber Choir conducted by Hermann Scherchen on London Ducretet-Thomson). The limpid choruses of Mozart's last work have always resisted the efforts of record makers, and are still a bit troublesome on these three latest versions. Conductor Walter's has a certain dramatic excitement but also a rather thick tone; Scherchen's (in the same performance recorded two years...
...Dodgers would have none of it; as soon as the Braves gave them some runs, they gave them right back. Pitchers came and went. Even Brooklyn's big Don Newcombe beat a disorderly retreat. Almost reluctantly, the Braves went out in front in the eighth inning. Leftfielder Bobby Thomson promptly put an end to that rally by thoughtlessly trying to steal home. Apoplectic over this final foolishness, Manager Fred Haney fined Bobby $100. Apparently he did not think it worth while to beef that Bobby was probably safe in spite of himself. Dodger Catcher Campanella had jumped a good...
...third straight year, Melbourne Professional Peter Thomson proved that he practically owns the British Open Golf championship. On the long and tricky links at Hoylake, England, Thomson stacked up four spectacular rounds to breeze home in 286, three strokes in front of Belgium's Flory Van Donck...
...assured his 16th defeat in 16 tries at the Open. Jack Fleck, last year's winner, did not even qualify for the final two rounds. When the 51 finalists lined up for the last 36 holes on the lush green course, an affable, free-swinging Australian named Peter Thomson, 26, held the lead by a single stroke over Old Pro Ben Hogan, out for his fifth Open title. Rangy Gary Middlecoff, 35, the Memphis dentist, was only two strokes back, even though he had taken horrendous sevens to fill two of the cavities in the first two rounds...