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...annually, as well as a long list of volunteers for the Government posts. The desert force is headed by Nicholas G.W. (for Gracian Ward) Thorne, 55, a retired Marine officer with sandy regimental mustache who for 14 years has been a globe-trekking State Department troubleshooter. One of Thome's primary concerns is to maintain a painstaking neutrality. Mission members will be required to split their leaves between Cairo and Tel Aviv, each about five hours away by car. Of nine wives who will accompany the party, the five with no children will be sent to Cairo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Sinai's Willing Hostages | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...faulty logic and incredible naiveté of Letter Writer Thome [July 22] is shocking, but illuminates the reasoning of the nonthinking, highly vocal minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 5, 1966 | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Died. Narcissa Thome, 84, widow of Montgomery Ward Heir James Thorne, who spent her life creating a world-famed collection of miniature rooms precise in every detail, from the Lilliputian Toby jugs in a colonial kitchen to the diminutive replica of a Fragonard painting in a Louis XVI salon, sometimes spending thousands on a single setting; of a heart attack; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 8, 1966 | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...promoters of nude parties contend that their motivation is intellectual and philosophical, not merely sensual. Nonstudent Richard Thome, 29, a Negro who heads an off-campus East Bay Sexual Freedom League, argues that "man will only become free when he can overcome his own guilt and when society stops trying to manage his sex life for him." His idea of freedom is parties in which individuals can engage in any sexual act "that doesn't impose on the desire of other people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Free-Sex Movement | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

Time was, of course, when summer fare was strictly "hammock reading": Agatha Christie, Erie Stanley Gardner, Ellery Queen, Thurber, Smith (H. Allen, Logan Pearsall or Thome), Bob Benchley, Eric Ambler, Erskine Caldwell -authors who could be read by firefly or by fishing stream, and required no expenditure of thought. Few weighty books were published in summer, and few were bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: SUMMER READING: Risks, Rules & Rewards | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

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