Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's widow, at the opening of the onetime Chicago mayor's safe-deposit boxes, fainted as highly compressed wads of $20, $50, $100 and $1,000 bills sprang out. His closer chums guessed that Thompson, a son-of-wealth, had accumulated some $3-to-4,000,000 before he became mayor. But his estate was preliminarily evaluated at only $150,000. His safe-deposit box hoard to date...
...with it? To minds troubled by worldwide death recurred an old wives' saying: nature tries to make up for man's mass killings by multiple births. How else explain the widespread news of quintuplets, quadruplets, triplets and twins? Last month had seen U.S. Army Sergeant Bill Thompson's British-born quadruplets (TIME, March 13), the Argentine Diligenti quintuplets (TIME, March 27), the Argentine quadruplets born (they soon died) the same week the Diligentis were discovered, the sextuplets Nicaragua claimed one day, denied the next. Last week Manhattan's Sloane Hospital for Women had two unforgettable days...
According to the figures, triplets are due about once in 7,869 births, quadruplets once in 700,000. All that Sloane Hospital, the Diligentis and Sergeant Thompson had was a mild coincidence...
Suddenly the State Department was reminded that no woman delegate had been included. Hurriedly the Department considered the possibilities, then picked Vassar's witty, international-minded, Atlanta-born Dean C. Mildred Thompson. The gentlemen flew off. Dean Thompson prepared to follow them...
...Edward R. Hostetter, Gerald M. Johnson, Robert B. Lloyd, Jr., John P.McMorrow, Frederick P. Murphy, Jr., William E. Murphy, Donal E. O'Callaghan, Roswell B. Perkins, John T. D. Rich, Clinton M. Ritchie, Jr., William B. Rogers, David M. Satz, Jr., Benjamin D. Soble, William L. Sprout, Charles D. Thompson, Kenner M. Throop, Jr., Nathan Weston, and Roger H. Wilson...