Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hodel and John R. Thomson fade slowly, but not quietly, into the sunset of graduation, the observer of the Harvard political scene notes the possibility that the Harvard Young Republican Club may undergo a serious metamorphosis. The traditional role of the HYRC ex-President, a role which both these gentlemen have played up to the hilt, has involved the former chief's taking a prominent part in the annual pre-election squabble the club puts...
Assuming that Hodel and Thomson are succeeded by meeker men, the present entertaining balance of power might be thrown completely off. Think what it will be like next February with no ex-president to beat the drum to scare up new members who will vote for his side. With no one to take former president Thomson's place, the yearly race between the two great factions in the club, Old Guard and Older Guard, might not occur...
Although the epee squad has not been decided, Dick Thomson, Jim Roberts, Bruce Brown and Philippe Sharat will be on hand...
...against Discounter Gattegno's "American plague" were just as vehement as those hurled at his American counterparts. Sternly calling on manufacturers to boycott his booming business, French retail-trade papers scornfully labeled him "Monsieur 20%." Virtually the entire Paris press, fearful of losing regular accounts, refused his advertising. Thomson-Houston, the big French equivalent of General Electric, refused to sell him its appliances...
...blot was removed from the 1956 Salk vaccine record. The death of James Thomson, 15, of Mount Vernon, Wash., had officially been reported as resulting from polio, although he had three shots of Salk vaccine (TIME, Dec. 24). More detailed studies of the boy's tissues now show that he died of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare disease of the brain and spinal cord, easily confused with polio. There remains only one 1956 case of a child's death attributed to polio despite triple vaccination, and this is no longer provable...