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Paul A. Freund. University Professor and Stephen W. Kutfler. Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology, received honorary doctorates along with Francis T.P. Plimpton the lawyer-diplomat who is a member of the Board of Overseers...
...Stokowski), gave a dinner party for the Chaplins in her town house and invited 66 of the Manhattanites who matter. Among them were Theatricals (like perennial Film Star Lillian Gish), Actresses (Geraldine Fitzgerald and Kitty Carlisle), Politicals (Senator and Mrs. Jacob Javits), and Literary-Socials (Truman Capote and George Plimpton). Winsomely self-deprecating, perched on his chair rather than sitting in it, the guest of honor basked in so much high-powered appreciation-humming delightedly along with Showman Adolph Green's near total recall of the themes from Chaplin's film scores. It was almost like old times...
Shakespeare and Frost. It is not the kind of atmosphere to which Plimpton was born. He comes from the Massachusetts community of Plimptonville, named for his family, went to the Harvard Medical School and, shortly after World War II service as an Army doctor, joined the faculty of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has remained in academic life ever since. "Medicine and education are the same thing," he says. "A good physician is a good teacher...
...thinking, a medical academician is also versatile. Plimpton, 53, can lace a speech with quotations from Shakespeare, Robert Frost, James Baldwin and other famous non-doctors. Just after he took over Downstate, he participated in a five-day canoe trip in the waterways around New York City, battling the fringe winds and rain of tropical storm Doria and enjoying himself thoroughly. "Even if there were no human bodies broken loose from their concrete sinking blocks in the Gowanus Canal," he says with feigned disappointment. "Canoeing around Brooklyn opens up many new boundaries for head and heart. I recommend...
Sense of Community. To open some new boundaries at Downstate, Plimpton, of course, needs lots of money to attract a topnotch faculty and launch new programs. He would like to experiment, for instance, with satellite clinics that could provide medical counseling and primary care to people who might not otherwise get to the hospital. He dreams of finding the funds and the staff that would allow poor people to come in for preventive checkups before they are seriously...