Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reider will have little competition in the distances now that Princeton's Rod Zwirner is no longer in school. Although Dyke Benjamin and Eddie Martin are still out, the Crimson's Bill Thompson and Jim Schlaeppi will pick up place points in these events...
...relays, Al Gordon, French Anerson, Al Percy, and Lee Barnes will enter what is billed as the Heptagonal Mile Relay Championship, while one of this quartet plus Dave Brahms, Art Cahn, and Bill Thompson will run a medley relay. Brahms will run the 880 leg, while Cahn, who last week against Army ran a sterling 1:56.1 half-mile, will run the three-quarters. Thompson will run the mile...
...rounded up some 200 silk weavers, most of whom had taken up other trades, supplied them with the raw silk and dyes to turn out finished products on their crude home looms. The silks became so popular with the diplomatic colony and tourists (many of whom ask for "Jim Thompson's place" as soon as they arrive in Bangkok) that Thompson quickly expanded, in 1950 formed his own company with $12,000 capital. Though he is its biggest stockholder, he took pains to make the company a Thai enterprise, accepted only four Americans among his 36 stockholders. His company...
...good a job has Jim Thompson done for the Thailand silk industry that he has lured in many Thais. More silk shops have been opened in Bangkok recently than any other business, including one reported to be backed by the wife of Thailand's strongman, Marshal Sarit Thanarat...
...told, the varsity won nine events, placed second in six, and third in only four. Captain Pete Reider, surprise starter in the mile, beat Jerry Lewis of Army in 4:19.1, while Bill Thompson took third with a stunning 4:22 plus, by far his best...