Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WARREN C. THOMPSON...
...fight them. West Pointer Tachito has a 4,000-man army, with Garands. Thompson submachine guns, .30-cal. machine guns, a few mortars. For Central America his air force is impressive: 20-odd P-51s. Tracking his troops on an Esso map last week, Tachito disdainfully dismissed the revolt as a "flop.'' For his part, Luis put Nicaragua under a state of siege and pressured the Organization of American States into a reluctant, long-distance study of the uprising...
...BETTY THOMPSON...
...recalls June Havoc, successful cineminx, Broadwayward girl (Sadie Thompson, Pal Joey), Shakespearean (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and grown-up (41) kid sister of Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. June, who was worked so hard as a child star that she never learned how to write properly in longhand, took two years to type out the saga of her youth, called it Early Havoc (Simon & Schuster; $3.95). Though some of it covers the same ground Sister traveled in her own autobiographical story, Gypsy,* which appeared in a musical version on Broadway last week (see THEATER), the book is a remarkable...
Once the trustees have taken a vote, the job of buying or selling stock is turned over to longtime Market Trader Almore Thompson, who works through more than 200 brokerage houses. In order not to upset the market in a stock that has captured M.I.T.'s interest, Thompson often executes orders over a period of several weeks or disperses them widely. M.I.T. never puts more than 5% of its assets into one company, or more than 25% into one industry. Since it buys for the long pull, it is not bothered by short-term fluctuations. "When the market turns...