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...went smoothly at a rehearsal for the debutantes' benefit fashion show in London, until Arabella Churchill, 17, Randolph's daughter, had to parade onto the runway wearing a silk gown split up the back to reveal its matching pants. "I do not want to show my bottom," snapped Winnie's granddaughter as photographers began shooting the view from the stern. Later, things got even worse when the prankish Duke of Bedford, the show's announcer, peeled off the detachable lower swath of a mink coat Arabella was modeling, leaving her in a sort of mini...
...whatever happened to little knobby-kneed Princess Anne? Well, she's a big girl now-and a pretty one, too. Arriving at a London theater to see a couple of saucy French plays, dressed in a blue silk gown, bejeweled and wrapped in a fur stole, the 16-year-old princess-on holiday from school-looked for all the world like a femme du monde, pouting at photographers from under loose-flowing hair...
...plantations. There last week on vacation went one of Southeast Asia's best-known businessmen, American James Thompson, 61. Tired from a round of business, which included the opening in Bangkok three weeks ago of a new, two-story headquarters for his $1.5 million-a-year silk business, Thompson came to the Highlands as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. T. G. Ling of Singapore...
...resident of Thailand since 1946, Thompson had almost singlehanded made Thai silk and its shimmering colors world-renowned, and thus created a major export asset for the grateful Thais. But Thompson was more than a businessman; he was also a collector of Oriental objets d'art who filled his opulent Bangkok home with priceless porcelains and religious figures. He loved to roam through the jungle, searching for old ruins and occasionally kicking up a Buddha's head. One afternoon last week, when his hosts had retired to rest, he left their house without a word and went...
...Southeast Asia felt for Jim Thompson. A Princetonian from Greenville, Del., Thompson was an architect when World War II began. He went to Asia as an agent of the Office of Strategic Services, liked the area so well that he stayed on when the war ended. Fascinated by the silk spinners he saw when traveling in rural Thailand, he collected samples of their work in a suitcase, brought them to New York and persuaded fashion designers to use them. He went back to Thailand, started his business with $700 and contracted with the dying silk industry, whose 200 scattered weavers...