Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...died 20 years ago, was the Wall Street lawyer whom President Franklin Roosevelt commissioned to set up an intelligence service in 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor. At the time, the U.S. had no formal espionage arm. Snooping had been in disrepute; a decade earlier, Secretary of State Henry Stimson had declared that "gentlemen do not read each other's mail." But Donovan persuaded F.D.R. that such etiquette need not apply in dealings with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and thus the U.S.'s first independent intelligence agency was born...
...sign of hope: casting a new version of Little Miss Marker, Director Walter Bernstein resolved to find someone fresh and preferably nonprofessional for the role that made Shirley Temple famous. He found Sara Stimson, 6, at an open casting call. She had never acted before. And she could be anyone's daughter, even yours...
Milton Katz, Stimson Professor of Law, said the nationally televised appearance of the three leaders raised the question in his mind of "whether the leaders contemplated an autonomous Palestinian state not connected with Jordan" because of Carter's inclusion of Jordan in his comments...
...addition to legions of capitalists, the school has produced public servants like Henry Stimson and George Bush. Yale, the Los Angeles Times and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are all headed by Andover graduates. Other alumni include the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Tarzan Creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Actor Jack Lemmon. Humphrey Bogart never got his diploma; he was kicked out in 1918 for "incontrollably high spirits...
Milton Katz '27, Stimson Professor of Law, does appear to have the inside track among the Law School Faculty. Sources said this week that he is in personal contact with Carter...