>This picture is different from the one I've always seen posted (different angle and Vivian is smoking here)

I thought this one had been posted before too but I just searched and if it has I couldn't find it. It has been uploaded to imgur but looks like you are correct and it hasn't been posted to reddit before. Probably because the cropping and her smoking make this one less visually appealing. Or it could be that the other version is just more widely spread around the internet since it was first posted to shorpy.com in 2007 (it along with the other 2 photos were available at the Library of Congress before that but their online photo archive is not that well known).

Sorry for accusing you of reposting a commonly reposted image.

Another bit of information related to Thomas (his full name was Tillman Thomas Ursel Cave) can be found in the comments at shorpy.com:

>Then, a tragic story from the May 4, 1952 issue: "Kelso Grid Star Dies in Collision". It reads:

>>KELSO, Wash. May 3 (AP) - Richard "Rip" Raappana, 24, well-known southwest Washington athlete, was killed early Saturday. His automobile swerved into a Consolidated Freightways truck and trailer a mile north of here on the Pacific Highway, the state patrol reported.

>>Louise N. Robinson, 21, Longview, a passenger in his car, was injured critically.

>>The state patrol said the truck driver was Thomas U. Cave, 39, of Portland.

>>Raappana was an all-round athlete at Kelso high. He played college football for Eastern Washington college at Cheney and last fall was with the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.