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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Date: March 18, 2002

"Howard Thompson

NEW YORK (AP) — Howard Thompson, a reporter and television reviewer for The New York Times, died Sunday of pneumonia at his Cape Canaveral, Fla., home. He was 82.

For more than 20 years, Thompson wrote one-line reviews in the newspaper's television section. His reviews were known as "Howardisms" and "Tiny Thompsons."

For "Angel," a 1937 film with Marlene Dietrich, Thompson wrote: "Angel cake. Delicious." For a 1954 Tony Curtis musical, "So This Is Paris," Thompson wrote: "Is it?"

Born in Natchez, Miss., Thompson studied journalism at Louisiana State University before serving in the Army as a paratrooper. He was a prisoner of war for six months in Germany.

Thompson joined the Times in 1947 as an office boy and retired in 1988. He also later served as chairman of the New York Film Critics."

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