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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Chancellor at Chicago | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Chancellor at Chicago | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

Tragedy, 1947. In Manchester, England, Sarah Kimpton just couldn't wait to cook a precious beefsteak, took a big bite out of it raw, fell down-dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...home office. There attentive clerks are connected with the firm's customers-other bullion brokers, mining companies, banks and banking houses, speculators, arbitragers. On Saturdays the meetings open at 10:30 a. m. but otherwise the chairman, currently Rothschild's bullion expert and mathematical wizard, Arthur Kimpton, announces crisply: "Gentlemen, it is eleven o'clock. We begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold Panic | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...HARRY KIMPTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Character v. Show | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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