In Thomas W. Lawson’s sensational 1907 novel, “Friday, the 13th,” the fear of the date is amplified when a broker takes advantage of the superstition to create Wall Street panic.

Both Luft and Baldauff pointed to a 1907 novel called “Friday, the Thirteenth” by Thomas W. Lawson. In the book, Lawson wrote about a New York City stockbroker who creates chaos in the stock ...

Lawson also began publishing essays and reviews in magazines like Flash Art and Art in America. Lawson wrote an influential polemic in the pages of Artforum in 1981, Last Exit: Painting.

-- Harry Hamlin, owner of Lord Derby, wired Secretary Horace Wilson of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' Association that he positively would not accept Thomas W. Lawson's amended offer of ...

ANNA - Mr. Thomas W. Lawson, 92, died at 12:50 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, in Illinois Veterans Home in Anna. He was born April 29, 1917, in Anna, the son of Ernest and Julia Treece Lawson.

ANNA, Ill. -- Thomas W. Lawson, 92, of Anna died Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, at Illinois Veterans Home in Anna. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to ...