Word: leyden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, will temporarily relinquish his History 5 course next year when he assumes a special teaching post at the University of Leyden in the Netherlands...
...Their ignorance of the United States," he said, "is probably as deep rooted as our ignorance of Dutch history." Although he has outlined no special program, Professor Schlesinger anticipates that he will have to stress fundamentals in his course at Leyden...
...Carroll Bumpers 1L, Eliot G. Gordon '47, Wayland C. Griffith 2G, Charles Konigsberg '50, and Stanley Leyden '48 round out the steering committee of the College division of the national organization...
...Smyrna, Leyden learned (in the first of several flash backs), Dimitrios had merely committed a murder. Then he framed a Moslem friend (Monte Blue) into dying for the crime. In Sofia he tried to assassinate a Prime Minister. There he befriended an uxorious little clerk (Steven Geray) in the Maritime Ministry, got him heavily in debt in a gambling house set up by spies for that express purpose, extorted from him the plans of Yugoslavia's mine fields in the Adriatic. Then he left his victim to suicide and, having collected his fee, double-crossed his employers...
More & more interested, little Author Leyden pattered from the Levant, through the Balkans, to Paris, met many interesting people in the course of his researches. In Geneva there was cold, gracious Grodek (Victor Francen), who described himself as "an employer of spy labor." He was writing a biography of St. Francis. In Athens there was bulbous, unctuous Mr. Peters (Sydney Greenstreet). Mr. Peters was also in Belgrade and Paris. And everywhere there were whispers of a cryptic organization called the Eurasian Credit Trust, whose headman turned up for a climax of blackmail and gunfire, with Mr. Peters gasping his life...