Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow, Ambassador Alan Kirk made the five-minute drive from Spasso House to the Foreign Ministry just outside the Kremlin's walls, and was ushered in for a 20-minute talk with Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Soon after, Alan Kirk's report reached Washington: the Russian peace feeler looked like the real thing...
During the last war Bundy started on intelligence work with the signal corps but soon was transferred to the staff of Admiral Kirk (now the ambassador to Russia) as a military attache. In this capacity he took part in the landings at Sicily and those at Normandy. It was in France that he received his training in the art of plumbing...
...military attache his routine jobs amounted to sending and relaying secret dispatches and advising Kirk on Military Affairs. But he also had a few extra-curricular obligations, one of which was running an old chateau near Louvenciennes. At one point, the chateau's maintenance crew, all member of the French underground, left their jobs to take part in shearing off the locks of the town's women collaborators. Since Admiral Kirk had to get his daily shave, Bundy had to take charge of the chateau's ancient plumbing...
Along the Great Divide (Warner) goes on the theory that an established star's debut in chaps & spurs calls for a little tone. To make Kirk Douglas at home on the range, the movie adopts a solemn, moody pace and a story line that tries him mightily with all the usual hazards that western heroes are heir to, and caps it all by supplying him with a high-class neurosis...
Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of Government, and Henry N. Smith, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, have been named the 1951 winners of the Bancroft Prizes, Dr. Grayson Kirk, vice president and acting head of Columbia University, announced yesterday. The awards carry a $2000 stipend each...