Senator from Tennessee who was the Democratic candidate for vice president in the 1956 presidential election.
[1] Thomas attended Yale University but dropped out and joined the Times as a copyboy in 1959.
[4] The author of a starred Kirkus Review of 52 McGs wrote, "For the last half of the 1990s, readers of the New York Times could be excused if they searched out Thomas's work before they bothered with the front-page lead.
'—after the veteran reporter's middle name—these little beauties celebrated the unsung, the queer, the unpretentious, the low-rent.
They lived between Manhattan and a vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he died from abdominal cancer on January 6, 2000, aged 60.