Word: thurstone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some weeks now, R. Thurston Lowndes described by friends as sometime professor of English and equally sometime professor of Mandarin, has advised freshmen, accepted their themes, issued them "personal permits" to the library, and tried to pour orange juice into their gaping mouths...
...multiplier," that once put 64 identical shots of pert Singer Bette Chapel on the TV screen at one time. Most of the stunts owe their success to a pair of studio carpenters named Weeland Risser and Ralph Doremus,who,in their pre-TV days, happened to work for Magicians Thurston and Blackstone...
...honor of South Carolina's Governor-elect Jimmy Byrnes, were canceled. New Yorkers began the wildest scramble for new automobiles which car dealers had ever seen-one Nash dealer with a normal Saturday sale of five cars got rid of 26 in a few wild hours. Chester Thurston, a citizen of Albuquerque, proudly announced that he had just finished construction of a combination fruit cellar and atomic refuge with a roof of 24-in. reinforced concrete. But, in general, the noisy placidity of U.S. life was undisturbed...
...light grey suit he fished a diplomatic little speech of his own. Said O'Dwyer, in Spanish that had gone a bit rusty since his student days in Salamanca: "I feel deeply honored that I have been chosen to succeed the distinguished and able former ambassador, Mr. Walter Thurston, and I am gratified that he is remaining in Mexico* where I hope I may call upon him from time to time for advice and counsel...
...Gentle, capable Careerman Thurston, not pleased at having been shuffled out of the Mexican post to make room for O'Dwyer, has retired, at 54, to Cuernavaca, there to live with his ailing mother...