Word: thion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today le Crocodile is 63, white-haired, bespectacled - and rich. He and Wife Simone Thion de la Chaume La coste, herself a onetime amateur golf champion, have three houses and move with the season. As he has grown older, Lacoste has turned more and more of a broad business empire over to his sons. Bernard Lacoste, 36, a Princeton graduate, bosses the sporting goods com pany, oversees a line that includes sweat ers, socks and tennis-racket covers. Son Francois, 34, a Stanford University-trained physicist, is a research and development director at Lacoste's other major company...
...player. Which may be a source of some disappointment to her father René, who as France's famed "Crocodile" of the 1920s, twice won the U.S. and Wimbledon championships. But girls are supposed to take after their mothers anyway, and Catherine's mother, the former Simone Thion de la Chaume, is a golfer-the winner of six French amateur titles. Last week, at the Cascades Golf Club in Hot Springs, Va., chunky Catherine Lacoste proved that she is a pretty fair chip off the old niblick. Firing rounds of 71, 70, 74 and 79, she whipped...