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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Modest Proposal | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Although the epee squad has not been decided, Dick Thomson, Jim Roberts, Bruce Brown and Philippe Sharat will be on hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Fencers Will Face Trinity | 2/9/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: French Revolution | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...already knew about one such death in July. A five-year-old boy who had been given his three shots died in Indiana ten minutes after admission to a hospital with a diagnosis of bulbar polio. Last week a second (and fully confirmed) case turned up: James Thomson, 15, of Mount Vernon, Wash, died of bulbar polio three months after getting his third Salk shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not Perfect | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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