Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Languages for What? Should children be taught foreign languages in elementary school? Only if two or more languages are spoken in the community, according to a report issued last week by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development of the National Education Association. In such cases, Authors Elizabeth Engle Thompson and Arthur E. Hamalainen say, the foreign language "should become part of the social living experiences in every classroom." But in communities with only one language "instruction to develop skills and vocabulary for all elementary school children in a particular language is without purpose...
...best-known American in the picturesque kingdom of Thailand is a greying, well-tanned onetime architect named James H. W. Thompson, 52, who has almost singlehanded saved Thailand's vital silk industry from extinction. When Jim Thompson arrived in Thailand in 1945 as an OSS officer (and stayed on as political adviser to the American minister), silk weaving as a local industry had almost died under the onslaught of cheaper and more durable machine-made silk. Today, almost every ship or plane that leaves Thailand carries Thai silk to some 17 countries, and Thompson's Thai Silk...
...Thompson got into the silk business because he had an esthetic eye for the glowing colors and uneven texture of the Thai silks. Says he: "It disturbed me that production of this wonderful material had stopped." He left the Army and diplomatic service, took 500 samples to New York, where the silk drew raves from designers, decorators and fashion editors. Thompson lined up an importing firm to handle the silk in the U.S., went back to Thailand and began operating with...
With this untimely paucity of first-line troops, the Crimson will be forced to rely reavily on maximum efforts from border-line cases such as Lee Barnes in the dash; Dave Rosenthal, in the low hurdles; Al Gordon and Ben Kaltreiter in the quarter; and Bill Thompson and Jim Schlaeppi in the distances...
...Europe sputtered toward war, Vienna became a vantage point from which U.S. correspondents shaped a new tradition of alert, informed foreign reporting that gave readers back home the world's best European coverage. From such resident and visiting firemen as the New York Evening Post's Dorothy Thompson. I.N.S.'s late H. R. Knickerbocker (who once interviewed Stalin's mother), the Chicago Tribune's William (Berlin Diary) Shirer, and Author Sheean, Correspondent Gunther busily soaked up lore and legends that never made the news stories. Gunther's most valuable mentor: the New York Evening...