Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whatever happened to little knobby-kneed Princess Anne? Well, she's a big girl now-and a pretty one, too. Arriving at a London theater to see a couple of saucy French plays, dressed in a blue silk gown, bejeweled and wrapped in a fur stole, the 16-year-old princess-on holiday from school-looked for all the world like a femme du monde, pouting at photographers from under loose-flowing hair...
...plantations. There last week on vacation went one of Southeast Asia's best-known businessmen, American James Thompson, 61. Tired from a round of business, which included the opening in Bangkok three weeks ago of a new, two-story headquarters for his $1.5 million-a-year silk business, Thompson came to the Highlands as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. T. G. Ling of Singapore...
...resident of Thailand since 1946, Thompson had almost singlehanded made Thai silk and its shimmering colors world-renowned, and thus created a major export asset for the grateful Thais. But Thompson was more than a businessman; he was also a collector of Oriental objets d'art who filled his opulent Bangkok home with priceless porcelains and religious figures. He loved to roam through the jungle, searching for old ruins and occasionally kicking up a Buddha's head. One afternoon last week, when his hosts had retired to rest, he left their house without a word and went...
...Southeast Asia felt for Jim Thompson. A Princetonian from Greenville, Del., Thompson was an architect when World War II began. He went to Asia as an agent of the Office of Strategic Services, liked the area so well that he stayed on when the war ended. Fascinated by the silk spinners he saw when traveling in rural Thailand, he collected samples of their work in a suitcase, brought them to New York and persuaded fashion designers to use them. He went back to Thailand, started his business with $700 and contracted with the dying silk industry, whose 200 scattered weavers...
Yeah, it's one ofthose plays. Producer-director Joel DeMott said it was about the failure of Christianity, but that she had deliberately played that down in her production because her actors didn't want to do a play about Christianity. Apparently the skinny guy in the blue silk shirt who blows trumpet is an okay guy, and everyone else represents the selfish elements of civilization. But I'm probably misquoting her, so I'll stop the plot analysis here...