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...team's defensive play, which frequently included snappy saves by Wood, was admirable. Defensemen Howell, Patterson, Johnston and Thomson have definitely improved their technique of clearing the puck from the corners and behind the cage--probably as a result of the attack a fast Minnesota team put on them out West (two forwards charged the puck while the third trailed just behind...
...scorebook shows, these skaters still had enough hustle to contribute to the offense. In the second period, after Taylor had scored the varsity's second goal at 7:19, Ron Thomson let fly a shot just inside the blue line which rebounded for a shot and goal by Tom Heintzman at 10:24. The defense also gave an assist to the fifth goal scored by Taylor at 6:32 of the third period when Dave Johnson started the action with his blue line slap...
...Wisconsin's Republican Representative Vernon Thomson expresses the feelings of many Congressmen of both parties when he says: "Kennedy has a good personal image. In that sense he has overwhelming appeal. But he is more popular than any of the causes he espouses...
Cream in Stone. Throughout his 14-year (1940-54) "professional honeymoon" as New York Herald Tribune music critic, Thomson campaigned for the performance of modern works and unfamiliar ancient ones, carped at the heavy concert ration of German, Italian and Slavic music, and set about with gusto to deflate what he thought were undeserved reputations. Toscanini he criticized as a practitioner of the "Wow Technique," by which he meant "the theatrical technique of whipping up something in a way to provoke applause automatically." Strauss's Salome, he wrote, was "like modernistic sculpture made of cheap wood, glass, rocks, cinders...
Starve in Paris. Missouri-born and Harvard-educated, Thomson lived in Paris until World War II ("I preferred to starve where the food was good"), now divides his time between his Paris and New York bachelor apartments. He gave up reviewing, he says, because "after 14 years, I had reviewed all the artists there were and all the kinds of music there are; you go on repeating yourself after that." Nowadays he never listens to records, composes as regularly, he says, "as a hen lays eggs." Contemporary music, he thinks, is in pretty sad shape: "Practically none of the music...