Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casting a musical, producers usually have a trouble, of either getting an actor who can't sing, or a singer who can't act. The singing seems to have won out, for both Irene Manning and Bill Thompson are ill at ease when not singing and find their outlet in excessive histrionics...
Divorced. Colonel Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., 48, wealthy, dapper, ex-playboy, wartime U.S. envoy to eight exiled governments in London, now on General Eisenhower's staff; by his second wife, Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, 48, mining heiress (his first wife was Mary Duke, tobacco heiress); after 14 years of marriage, no surviving children; in Paris...
...steamship company couldn't take Mrs. Thompson unless her visa said "To Constanta." And the Russian Consulate couldn't change the visa because Moscow had specifically named Odessa as her port of entry. Finally, after much bilingual ping-pong, the steamship company accepted a note from the Russian Consulate recommending that Mrs. Thompson travel to Odessa "via Constanta...
...need today is more than ever for reporters-in-residence-for journalists with an intimate, personal understanding of places and peoples and changes working under the surface. To help the editors write into TIME not just diplomatic facts, but the feel of a whole new civilization. Craig Thompson, his family with him, hopes to live among the Russians for years...
...month after he got his divorce, Lewis married Foreign Correspondent Dorothy Thompson. He had wooed her all over Europe, at parties, in railway coaches, on airplanes. He had even followed her to the Soviet Union. When the eager Russians asked Lewis what he had come to see in the land of Socialism, he replied: "Dorothy." They were divorced in 1942. They have...