Word: carr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senior Bobby Carr, who set a new single-season scoring record for Harvard defensemen with 28 points, captured berths on both the All-Ivy and All-Eastern second teams. He also received the John Tudor Memorial Cup as Harvard's most valuable player...
...Carr had three assists for the Crimson, and Smith, Garrity, Mueller and Parrot each recorded...
...Birkenhead and a host of other critics reviewed the book by launching scathing philippics on Philby, but most scathing of all was the preface to the book itself (which will appear this month as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in the U.S.). Written by Novelist John le Carré (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold), it takes apart not only Philby but the Secret Intelligence Service (S.I.S.) and the British upper classes...
...Club." "Deceit was Philby's life work, deceit his nature," writes le Carré, once an agent himself. Still, says le Carré, the Establishment could not bring itself to suspect Philby's loyalty, even when there was overwhelming evidence against him: "The shaming fact of Philby's continued employment is that S.I.S. quite clearly identified class with loyalty." It clung, says le Carré, to the Establishment tenet that "this Club does not elect traitors, therefore Kim is not a traitor...
...Club" continued to protect Philby, even when, in 1962, his subversion could no longer be denied. Rather than haul him in to confess, S.I.S. sent a longtime colleague to confront him, informally, with his sins-"a sporting way" to "allow Kim to run for it." Contends le Carré: "The Establishment is shown to have behaved with grotesque ineptitude. It is arguable that Kim Philby, spiteful, vain and murderous as he was, was the spy and catalyst whom the Establishment deserved...