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...anybody can find sensible answers for these puzzles, Sir John seems to be the man. Born in Greenock, on Scotland's Firth of Clyde, he "drifted into accountancy," probably because his father was in it. Sir William McLintock, head of Britain's famous Thomson, McLintock firm, soon drafted the "drifter" as his protégé, moved him rapidly up to a partner. During World War II, Morison ran the Ministry of Supply's financial affairs and served on the vital War Damage Commission, which decided how much should be paid to thousands of blitzed British property...
...their columns with Rachmaninoff. Except for spells of teaching (at Mills and Brooklyn Colleges) and study (with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger), he has been at it ever since, is now the Herald Trib's most influential critic next to Critic-Composer (Four Saints in Three Acts) Virgil Thomson. On his days off, he has found time to compose a score of scores...
Pfeiffer, Harry A. Wolfson, Littaner Professor of Semitic Languages, and Professor William Thomson, Jewett Professor of Arabic teach Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Assyrian, and Syriac...
...National League: Brooklyn 8, Pittsburgh 5, with homers for Brooklyn by Campanella and Snider; Chicago 3, Cincinnati 2, homers for Cincinnati by Marshall and Kluszewski; Milwaukee 3, St. Louis 2, a homer for Milwaukee by Bruton; New York 4, Philadelphia 1, a New York homer by Thomson...
They were very bitter, up there in Thomson's Falls-and at Naro Moru, and Ol Kalou, and at Nyeri, and on the Kinangop, and in all that Mau Mau-infested country -about the politicians in Nairobi. "They sit," said a farmer vehemently, "on their fat behinds, in their nice offices, and make up soothing speeches. What we need is more men-far more men-and more action...