Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Vincent Sheean, his wife (Diana Forbes-Robertson) and their two small children escaped being burned to death by leaping from windows. Author Sheean sprained an ankle, singed his hair; his wife suffered severe burns. The eleven-room house, which they leased from Sinclair Lewis and his wife, Dorothy Thompson, burned to a crisp...
Sirs: Do TIME'S photographers have on a secret wager to find the most unattractive possible pose of Dorothy Thompson [see cut, centre -TIME, Jan. 6] for their admirable journal? So it appears; and it seems too bad to the number of TIME devotees who find in Miss Thompson . . . one of the steadily increasing lights now shining in a dark place. MRS. CURTIS CRUMP Asheville...
...Reprinted (left and right of the cut to which Reader Crump objects) are two other Thompson photographs. Let Reader Crump take her pick. To picture editors able Miss Thompson presents a problem. She usually looks best with her mouth closed, but in most newspictures of her it is open...
...example upon suffering humanity everywhere will be more power ful than the combined armies of the Axis." The familiar cries of defeatist, appeaser, isolationist, rose shrilly, just as the cries of warmonger had risen after the testimony of the Cabinet officers the week before. Defenders of the bill-Dorothy Thompson. William Bullitt, Major Gen eral John F. O'Ryan-came in with more arguments, all familiar. Ex-Ambassador Bullitt pointed to one difficulty: "The state of mind here today is about what it was in France a year before they en gaged in war with Germany...
Waiting to marry Miss Bishop in the beginning is fond, soft-spoken Sam Peters (William Gargan). He is still waiting at the end. Meanwhile, Miss Bishop almost forgets her academic career when she falls in love with a dashing young lawyer, Delbert Thompson (Donald Douglas). When he gets her man-mad cousin in trouble she gives him up, goes back into her shell. Next time she thinks of marrying it is a soulful professor at Midwestern John Stevens (Sidney Blackmer), but he turns out to have a wife in Virginia. Miss Bishop will not be unfaithful to her mission...