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...doctor tries to educate people to live," says Calvin Hastings Plimpton, 41, assistant dean of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. The sentiment sounded good to Massachusetts lively little (1,000 students) Amherst College. Last week Amherst named Alumnus ('39) Plimpton as its long-sought successor to able President Charles W. Cole, 54, who leaves this June after 14 good years to become vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...polished product of a polished Massachusetts family, tall, dark, witty Physician Plimpton grew up in Plimptonville (really only a courtesy stop on the New Haven line), 18 miles out of Boston. No narrow specialist, he majored in English at Amherst (after Exeter), went on to Harvard Medical School and a World War II battle surgeon's post in Europe. Later he became chief resident at Columbia's prestigious Presbyterian Hospital, then chief of staff at Lebanon's American University Hospital during the U.S. landing...
Since he considers medicine as education, Plimpton reasons that giving up practice for pedagogy "isn't really so terribly much of a hop." The new president has another compensation: Amherst is already well-heeled (endowment: $24 million). Cracks Plimpton: "They told me definitely that I wouldn't have to start raising money for seven days...
...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...