Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another potential refugee from pro football is Alexis Thompson, 34, who last week hung a For Sale sign on his Philadelphia Eagles. Only last month Thompson's Eagles won the National Football League championship from the Conzelman-coached Cardinals in a blinding snowstorm. But because of the war with the rival All-America Football Conference (which has boosted halfbacks' salaries to as high as $20,000 a season), he finished $29,000 in the red with his championship team. Says Thompson, who in 1930 inherited $5,000,000 from his steel-baron father: "I no longer think football...
From that year until 1942, when the war caused abandonment of the Society, the organization produced "Acts and Galatea," Purcell's "Dido and Aneas" and "King Arthur," Dr. John Blow's "Venus and Adonis," and in 1942, the world premier of "Solomon and Balkis" by Randall Thompson '20, professor of Music...
...Charles Thompson 2L and Richard W. Lyman 2G were elected yesterday to spring terms as chairman and vice-chairman of the University chapter of the American Veterans Committee...
...Thompson and Lyman step into vacancies created by the graduation of Eastman Birkett 3L and Leon Waks 3L. Lyman's present post of recording secretary will go to David W. MacEachron...
...Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins) and one All-America club (the San Francisco 49ers) seemed likely to show a profit. The Chicago Rockets of the All-America Conference would lose more than $300,000, the Los Angeles Rams of the National League about $200,000. Complained Owner Alexis Thompson of the Philadelphia Eagles: "[It's a] fantastic situation that finds me with a championship team that will lose close to $32,000 this year...