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...Best Friend. In London, Solicitor George W. R. Thomson paid the magistrate's court ?461, a pound a day for each day he had spared his chow's life after the court ordered the dog killed, complained that the next ?343 might bankrupt...
...last week's meeting, one of the top-ranking U.S. classicists, Princeton University's young Choirmaster Carl Weinrich, who at Princeton University's Chapel plays an $18,000 modern organ as if it were Bach-type, offered modern organ compositions by Virgil Thomson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston...
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, as interpreted by Artur Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic, gladdened Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson, who observed: "I suspect there may be some protests from adolescents about the removal of all traces of imminent sexuality from the work of a man who has been for so long their especial comfort. But I am sure that many musicians of my age will be glad to welcome [the composer] back to the adult fold...
...Idea. A top-notch Minnesota banker, greying, heavy-set John Cameron Thomson, had the idea. "Tom" Thomson, 53, heads the Northwest Bancorporation (consolidated assets: $800 million), an 82-bank Midwestern outfit that ranks second to the Giannini Transamerica Corp. among U.S. bank holding companies. Thomson is also vice chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Economic Policy Committee, and one of their powwows last spring set him to thinking...
...Thomson got some business and University of Minnesota friends to help him form the Northwest Research Committee. They picked Albert Lea as their guinea pig: it represented a neatly balanced war-busy industry and farming. Last June, under the spur of N.R.C., 46 Albert Lea citizens began to examine their city and county. The U.S. Chamber's pamphlet tells what the Albert Leamen and N.R.C. found...