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SECTION MEN: The course is given completely in sections--three weekly, and '55 advises that a good section man is the most important factor in making the course enjoyable. Bullitt is described as an "inspiring" lecturer, able to control discussions--an important factor in such a course since class discussion often tend to run away with themselves. One critic said that, although he lectured brilliantly and taught students to think for themselves, he monopolized classes too completely, inspiring a fear of individual participation. Lord won plaudits for the great interest he took in his students, his competence in handling discussions...
...Bullitt, whose special field is the study of eighteenth century English literature, has been an instructor in English and General Education...
Billings graduated from the University of Kansas in 1933 and then took up courses in foreign studies and the Russian language in Paris. After spending three years on the staff of the American Embassy in Moscow working under Ambassador William C. Bullitt, he enrolled at Harvard. Following receipt of his Master's in 1941, Billings joined the faculty of Texas University, where he started on a path which led to the Supreme Court...
...previous legal experience, he had no choice but to handle the case himself; he began immediately to prepare his brief in an old Leaven-worth ledger book that he had found in a trash can. While still in the guard-house. Billings corresponded with his old chief, William C. Bullitt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
Professional Background: Entered the U.S. foreign service at 22, was spotted as a bright young man in 1933 and pulled out of the U.S. legation in Riga, Latvia, to help U.S. Ambassador William Bullitt open the first U.S. embassy in Moscow since the Russian Revolution. In 1946, when he was chargé d'affaires in Moscow, his urgent warnings of Russian aggressive intentions so impressed Secretary of State George Marshall that Kennan was picked in 1947 to head a new policy-planning staff. His "policy of firm containment" (first outlined under the pseudonym "X" in Foreign Affairs...