Word: thurston
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...survive, they must all deal with Mr. Rich (Ted Thurston). Old Rich has the classic ailments of age and wealth: he is impotent and bored. On New Year's Eve, Potemkin arranges for a love scene to be played between the Orphan and the Angel with the hope of restoring Rich to youthful virility, after which the old man is supposed to get the girl. Naturally, it does not turn out that...
...games, fewest in the league. The offense is the rub. In five games the Packers scored only 87 points to rank a lamentable twelfth out of 16 teams; 22 times they lost the ball on fumbles and interceptions v. 24 times for the entire 1966 season. Injury-benched Fuzzy Thurston is no longer opening up truck-size holes at guard; age appears to be robbing Forrest Gregg, Jerry Kramer and Bob Skoronski of their speed and timing. In the backfield, the Packers sorely miss the devastating running and blocking of Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor. Replacements Donny Anderson...
...Thurston Harris (Do What...
...kind of crusader who considered it his duty to campaign against the hula as an economic evil which distracted men from their work. Toward the turn of the century, when Hawaii's famous Castle family held a controlling stock interest, the present publisher's grandfather, Lorrin A. Thurston, was put in charge. He, too, was a campaigner, known for his fiery editorials in favor of U.S. annexation. His son, Lorrin P., who took over the paper in 1931, took up the cause of Hawaiian statehood as his crusade, but as a publisher he seemed to lack his predecessor...
True to his reputation for intransigence, the younger Thurston refused to relinquish the reins of his faltering newspaper. He scorned the man who seemed destined to succeed him, his Yale-trained nephew, Thurston Twigg-Smith. "He's never been any damn good at anything," he sneered. Twigg-Smith, however, had a different view of his own abilities. In 1961, he engineered a "palace revolution." Though he controlled only 42% of the paper's stock, he quietly signed up other rebels, including the paper's ambitious editor George Chaplin, who had been hired from the New Orleans Item...