Word: beirut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four years later he was on the Beirut faculty, and married to the boss's daughter. In 1920 his father-in-law died, and three years later Bayard became president...
...Arab, dirty and wounded, lay on the road, victim of a hit-&-run driver. Bayard Dodge, a young American, was on his way home after weary hours of doling out food to starving Beirut factory workers. Famine had sharpened the Near East's normal indifference to death; of all those who passed the sufferer, only the American stopped. Dodge took one look at the man's body, saw that there was life in it, picked him up and drove him to a hospital...
...times and in many ways. It was an act he more than walked through. Son of the copper-rich Dodges, he followed the family path to Princeton but swerved off to study theology. On a Wanderjahr around the world in 1908, Bayard stopped off at the American University of Beirut, in the Lebanon. There he met his childhood friend, Mary Bliss, granddaughter of the university's founder and first president, and daughter of its second...
...Manhattan, Hamid Reza Pahlevi, 15-year-old brother of the Shah of Persia, disappeared from his hotel room shortly before he was to be taken off to summer school. Next day the Prince, who had already run away from one school in Beirut, another in Switzerland, alighted at Orly Airfield near Paris. Where next? The Persian Minister in Paris, who had promptly taken the Prince in hand, told the press: "It depends on his brother," and briskly pulled down the diplomatic curtain...
...sessions. The head delegates and their staffs are not only a well-organized team (coached by a lank Egyptian, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League), but a sort of alumni club: most of the Arabs at U.N. were educated at the American University of Beirut...