Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant William Thompson Jr., 27-year-old G.I. father of quadruplets born to Norah Carpenter a year and a half ago in Heanor, England, arrived home from the wars, changed into a neat blue suit with a discharge button, said to Pittsburgh reporters: "Nothing is important. . . . Let's drop the whole matter." Wife Eleanor, still refusing him a divorce, said, "I won't see him. . . . We have nothing in common to discuss. ... He made his bed; let him lie in it." Back in England, 24-year-old Norah, confident that the Sergeant would send...
East & West. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, visiting Prague with her Czech husband, Painter Maxim Kopf, found Czechoslovakia facing "eastward [toward Russia] in economic ideas and westward [toward the democracies] in politics." She wrote...
TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson, looking and listening throughout the trial, wrote this account: The prisoners' dock was a picket-fence pen knocked together out of boards salvaged from packing cases. It contained four rows of seats, four to a row. Around the dock there was a plethora of blue-and-red-capped, uniformed guards of the NKVD. Between the dock and the audience stood two guards, immobile with rifles grounded, leather cartridge cases on their belts, unbuttoned bayonets glinting like polished silver under the batteries of Klieg lights...
Last week, while Correspondent Thompson bounded about Prague, President Eduard Benes sent his Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, War Minister Ludvik Svoboda...
...Francisco conference prepared to adjourn, United Nations scientists were staging their own show of international unity, in Moscow last week. Cabled TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson...