Word: kimpton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after four months of combing through the alphabet, the trustees announced that they had stopped at the letter K. The man they picked, out of 641 candidates proposed: Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, 40, a University of Chicago vice president and a big, shaggy, good-humored man whom Hutchins once referred to as "240 pounds and all sweetheart...
...from Deep Springs. The son of a Kansas City lawyer, Kimpton started out as a Stanford undergraduate with the idea of becoming a psychologist. But when he found out more about the subject ("Intelligence?" famed Psychologist Lewis Terman once said to him. "Why, that's what the Stanford-Binet test tests"), Kimpton turned to philosophy and took his PhD. at Cornell...
Since then, his career has been a happy blend of philosophy and administration. He first came to Chicago in 1943 after serving as head of a small college at Deep Springs, Calif., and dean of the college of liberal arts at the University of Kansas City. Kimpton's first Chicago job: to run the sprawling wartime Metallurgy Project which the university operated for the Manhattan District. He did it so well, and made so many friends in the process, that he quickly rose through a succession of posts-dean of students and professor of philosophy, dean of the faculties...