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After 16 years spent learning his trade in routine jobs, Diplomat Murphy's breakthrough came in 1936. with the arrival in Paris of Ambassador William Bullitt, a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt's and a man with a sharp eye for young talent. "When I got to Paris." recalls Bullitt, "Murphy was No. 3 consul. He seemed so much abler than the No. 2 consul and the No. 1 consul that I had him made consul general.'' By 1939 Murphy was a full-blown counselor at the Paris embassy. "This," says Bullitt, "was going up very...
Meet Lieut. Colonel McGowan. When France fell in June 1940, Ambassador Bullitt returned to the U.S., and Murphy became the top-ranking American in a France divided between the German occupation in the North and the Vichy French government in the South. Main aim of U.S. policy: to keep the German-Italian Axis out of strategic French North Africa. In December 1940, Murphy went to Algiers, negotiated a deal with the Vichy authorities to supply them with U.S. economic aid and U.S. "technical assistants," soon took charge of an expanding North African intelligence network. North Africa began Murphy...
...elected to the Board of Directors were John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy House; Warren S. Berg '44; Richard G. Dale '52; Harold Rosenwald '27 Stephen L. Singer 1GB; and Dean Robert B. Watson '37. Rolf Goetze '59 and Charles M. Olin '59 were also named to the board...
...Spring term course on Henry Fielding and two Fall term courses, dealing with the works of Chaucer and James Joyce, will be offered by the English Department. The courses will be taught by John M. Bullitt '43, associate professor of English, B. J. Whiting '25, professor of English, and Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English...
Some time in the early Fall, the complete staff of Quincy House will probably be announced, John M. Bullitt '43, master of the House, said last night...