Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Foster Dulles' personal papers, along with $10,000, were left to Princeton University's aborning John Foster Dulles Library of Diplomatic History...
...studying at Princeton on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and had begun teaching. He became a U.S. citizen, settled down at Harvard in 1930 to teach and to do research work on the origins of chemical reactions. As chief of the explosives division of the National Defense Research Committee in World War II, he organized and ran a 600-man explosives laboratory in Bruceton, Pa. Once Kistiakowsky got a rush assignment from the OSS: the allies needed an explosive that could be used for sabotage work in Europe and the Far East; it had to be easy to carry, innocent...
...former Princeton football player ('52) and writer: "They have missed a fundamental aspect of American life-work." Most of the U.S. artists are drawn to Rome because it is cheaper to live there. Their down-to-earth approach is reflected in their art: painting includes recognizable images, sculpture often mirrors the human form, prose and poetry tend to be lucid, coherent and direct. Few have qualms about accepting commercial commissions. Cracked one sculptor: "For a thousand dollars I'll do a head of grandma -guaranteed to look just like grandma!" Wives for Models. Typical of Rome...
...graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton, a philosophy major and valedictorian of the class ('08). He went on to score George Washington University's highest law marks to that date, got a bright start as a young international lawyer for New York's Sullivan & Cromwell. In June 1912 he married an upstate New York girl named Janet Avery, soon afterward interrupted his law practice to work for the World War I Trade Board (poor eyesight kept him out of the military service). After the Armistice, Foster Dulles got a gleaming diplomatic opportunity. President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary...
...does. He goes to Princeton, falls in love with a rich girl (Barbara Rush), joins the town's top law firm, and rises rapidly up the shingle toward a partnership. The hitch comes when he realizes that in advancing his worldly status, he has neglected his spiritual state. For a moment there, it looks as if the picture is going to make an honest if not very original point. But before anybody can say Fish House Punch, the script gives the hero a splendid opportunity to save his soul without losing any money...