Word: plimpton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School before joining the Manhattan law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in 1933. He entered the Army Air Corps in 1942, served overseas with the Air Transport Command, left in 1946 as a colonel. After two years of Washington law practice, he joined the Manhattan law firm of Debevoise, Plimpton & McLean in 1948, was vice president and corporate counsel to American Airlines when he was summoned to the Pentagon...
...professors are Paul M. Bator, associated with the firm of Debevoise, Plimpton and McLean in New York City; Oliver S. Oldman, now a Lecturer in the Law School; and Frank E. A. Sander, of the Boston law firm of Hill, Barlow, Goodale and Adams...
...interpreted as "offensively self-assertive," it might better be applied to those who had whatever hand in producing this particular story. The Review was founded by Harold L. Humes and Peter Matthiessen, the author of two novels and many notable short stories. The first two recruits were George A. Plimpton and Thomas H. Guinzburg...
...GEORGE PLIMPTON (Editor of Paris Review) Fishers Island...
Review's nonfiction manages to convey the flavor of the Left Bank's fermenting geniuses and flamboyant phonies, e.g., Editor Plimpton's relaxed biography of an expressionistic dancer named Vali, who invited her friends in to watch her commit suicide, thought better of it, instead turned out some haunting macabre drawings reproduced in the current issue...