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Died. Lord Thomson of Fleet, 82, international press czar; a month after suffering a stroke; in London. A debt-plagued salesman in rural Ontario during the Depression, Roy Herbert Thomson floated a loan to set up a small radio station, then acquired a struggling newspaper, the Timmins (Ont.) Press. From this slender base he built one of the world's largest press and broadcasting empires: more than 140 newspapers and dozens of magazines, TV and radio stations, mostly in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. In London, which became his base of operations in the 1950s, he picked...
Reagan any more. New Hampshire's ultra-conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. insisted that "this type of deal exemplifies why politics and politicians are held in such low esteem by all Americans. I will not assist in selling this opportunistic team to the Republicans." Then he cashed in his ticket for Kansas City...
...history, the 1961 event at Birkdale reaffirmed the early goal of deciding the most formidale player in the world. The prestige of the tournament had been gradually eroded in the post-war years since American pros were lured away by the more lucrative home circuit. This decline allowed Peter Thomson and Bobby Locke to dominate the tournament with eight victories between them in the space of ten years...
...colony, too, would vote for independence. New York's men still awaited instructions from home, but they would not dissent. That left only Delaware stalemated?one delegate in favor, one opposed, and one back home on business. Bostonian John Hancock, President of the Congress, rapped his gavel. Secretary Charles Thomson began rereading the resolution aloud prior to a vote...
Finally, on July 4, the Congress adopted the Declaration and ordered it "authenticated" and printed. As President of the Congress, John Hancock signed the Declaration, and the congressional secretary, Charles Thomson, attested to his signature. Oddly, no member of the drafting committee seems to have gone along to John Dunlap's shop to supervise the printing?which accounts, perhaps, for the caprices of punctuation, capitalization and spelling that occur in the printed document. On July 5 and 6, the Declaration was sent out to all the colonies, and one copy was inserted into the Congress's "rough" (secret) journal...