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...class ('08). He went on to score George Washington University's highest law marks to that date, got a bright start as a young international lawyer for New York's Sullivan & Cromwell. In June 1912 he married an upstate New York girl named Janet Avery, soon afterward interrupted his law practice to work for the World War I Trade Board (poor eyesight kept him out of the military service). After the Armistice, Foster Dulles got a gleaming diplomatic opportunity. President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of State Robert Lansing, who was Dulles' maternal uncle, took the young...
...symptoms. A $110-a-week printer in Detroit, Benny had lived contentedly for years in a $7,000 frame house, saved a nest egg of $5,000 with the help of his thrifty wife. One day in 1950 Benny Hall grew restless, excited, preoccupied. For a week or so afterward, at breakfast he riffled distractedly through the back pages of his morning newspaper. Finally he confessed to his wife:"I'm interested in the stock market...
...inviting other nations, they were not willing to wreck the conference over it, and the U.S.'s Christian Herte>r, taking the chair next day, plunged straight ahead to the conference's real business. His lucid opening speech made clear that there would be a summit conference afterward if "constructive proposals" were made. He affirmed that "the U.S. is in deadly earnest about wanting to reach agreements." After the three other ministers and representatives of the two Germanys made speeches, Christian Herter proceeded to put forward the West's "package" plan...
...world's reaction to Courtney's death was best expressed when several of his old classmates gathered at the funeral and afterward purchased a bronze plaque with the simple inscription: "I could have better spared a better man." The prize happily insures us that his name shall not be forgotten...
Unannounced, he showed up a few nights later to catch the American Holiday on Ice show at the Lenin Sports Palace with his son Sergei, as well as First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and cronies from the Central Committee. Afterward, in a private room at the back of the hall, Khrushchev gave a caviar-and-smoked-salmon party for the cast, scattering bear hugs and backslaps among hearty toasts in brandy. There was no talk of politics...