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...best-known American in the picturesque kingdom of Thailand is a greying, well-tanned onetime architect named James H. W. Thompson, 52, who has almost singlehanded saved Thailand's vital silk industry from extinction. When Jim Thompson arrived in Thailand in 1945 as an OSS officer (and stayed on as political adviser to the American minister), silk weaving as a local industry had almost died under the onslaught of cheaper and more durable machine-made silk. Today, almost every ship or plane that leaves Thailand carries Thai silk to some 17 countries, and Thompson's Thai Silk...
...home state of Connecticut, John Alsop carries some impressive credentials. He belongs to an old Avon (Conn.) family, went to exclusive Groton and Yale ('37), served overseas in the cloak-and-dagger OSS in World War II, steadily climbed the promotion ladder in Hartford's Mutual Insurance Co. from field inspector ('46) to president ('53), twice won election to the Connecticut General Assembly (1947 and 1949), and won friends among Eisenhower Republicans as a Connecticut Yankee for Ike in both...
...Chief J. Edgar Hoover included Halperin's name with that of Harry Dexter White in a list of suspected Communist agents sent to President Truman in 1945; according to ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley, Halperin gave her secret documents and party dues when he was employed by the OSS...
...reels for a new "adult" horse opera called Sugar-foot to alternate with Cheyenne, and another called Maverick (with new Cowboy James Garner) to oppose the Allen-Sullivan powerhouse Sunday nights. Reliable old Character Actor Walter Brennan stars in a folksy situation comedy called The Real McCoys, and OSS will chronicle the World War II cloak-and-dagger exploits of General "Wild Bill" Donovan's men. ABC will offer top pro golfers-Gary Middlecoff, Sam Snead, et al.-up to $52,000 to tee off on its new All-Star Golf series, TV's first stroke-by-stroke...
...counterspy. Jane and George Zlatovski were helpful spies for the Soble-Morros combine. In Hitchcock-trimmed meetings both in the U.S. and a dozen European cities-including Moscow-the Zlatovskis turned over a file-load of valuable information that eventually dropped into Russian hands, said the indictment. Using OSS information, Jane (code name: "Slang") wrote an incisive report on Indonesia as well as dossiers on U.S. intelligence agents...