Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turning 83, famed American Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson proved to be as vivace as the music he has written for every mode from concert hall to films over half a century. Tendered a birthday party at Brentano's bookstore in Manhattan, Thomson ignored the limousine that had been sent to fetch him from his apartment in the fin de siècle Chelsea Hotel and marched to the festivities on his own. He also chose stairs instead of an elevator and a hard chair rather than a soft one, but he did consent to pose at the piano with...
Pianist Bobby Short. That did not mean that the feisty composer had been defused. When one admirer became too mushy, the balding Thomson protested: "Get this man out of my hair...
...intention is to devise an economic development program to encourage existing businesses to remain and to induce new business to relocate in Cambridge," Thomson says, adding that he supports "short term economic incentives to new businesses...
...internationally respected newspapers came within a hairbreadth of dying themselves. Exasperated by chronic featherbedding and wildcat disruptions, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization, owner of the newspapers, suspended publication last Nov. 30. Thomson executives felt they could force the anarchic print unions into line within several months, at the outside, but they underestimated the complexity of the task and the resiliency of their adversaries. A final agreement was not reached until last week, just hours before the deadline Times Newspapers Ltd. Managing Director Marmaduke Hussey had implicitly set for closing the papers for good...
...Times newspapers put their pretax losses at better than $60 million but insisted that the lockout was the only way to ensure the future of the two publications. If the papers do survive, said Lord Thomson of Fleet, chairman of the parent company, "the cost staff-wise, money-wise and frustration-wise will have been worth it." As for Fleet Street's reaction, Times executives dismissed it as sniping by envious competitors. Said one Timesman: "They're in a position of being overmanned and using 19th century technology, and they see a slimmed-down Times striding into...