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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carpet slippers, on any one of dozens of planes, Dulles, world citizen, would pull out a whodunit from his worn briefcase ("The detective must put his mind to work-my mind is relaxed as I read of his deductions"), or, as he often did, make plans in mid-Atlantic to stop off for a swim at Bermuda...
Dulles went to bed easily. He ate soft foods, slept deeply for the first time in weeks, read a couple of Ellery Queen mysteries plus the New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and a new book by Harry and Bonaro Overstreet, What We Must Know About Communism (Norton; $3.95). Once or twice he phoned the office for a check on things. In the State Department one day, while Dillon was presiding over a morning conference, a secretary sent in a United Press International dispatch...
...little more than an hour the President was at Dulles' bedside. For 25 minutes they talked. Ike told Dulles that he was counting on him to get back to work. Dulles gave the President the book at his bedside-What We Must Know About Communism-urged him to read it. At conversation's end the President tucked the book under his arm, stopped on his way out of the hospital to make a short statement: "... I express the thoughts and prayers of all of us that the results of his operation and the further course of treatment will...
Across the Board. Born in Geneva while his parents were making the Grand Tour, Doug Dillon followed a pedigreed path: from Groton ('27) to Harvard ('31) with a B.A. to his father's Manhattan investment banking firm of Dillon, Read...
Five months after Pearl Harbor, Dillon went on active Navy duty as an ensign, participated in the invasions of Guam, Saipan and the Philippines, served as operations officer for the Seventh Fleet air arm, was discharged in 1945 as a lieutenant commander, and returned to Dillon, Read as chairman of the board. An active Republican, Dillon was elected to the New Jersey Republican State Committee. In 1951 he helped organize the New Jersey Republicans for Eisenhower in the bitter preconvention campaign. After election President Eisenhower named Dillon U.S. Ambassador to France. Dillon was widely traveled in France, spoke French fluently...