Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have just had an opportunity to read the article in TIME dealing with the life and death of Mr. Stimson. I felt that I should like to say how well I thought this article dealt with Mr. Stimson's extraordinary career and character...
...when their society is mentioned; that firemen once entered Berzelius to douse a blaze and had to be accepted as members; that hair-raising and lascivious practices occur inside the meeting-place vaults. Actually the "spooks"--as sour-grapes outsiders call them--take their membership very seriously. Henry L. Stimson always stayed with fellow Bonesmen in Paris, rather than with the ambassador; Professor F. O. Matthiessen laid his Bones Key on a farewell note before jumping to his death...
...cool afternoon last week, a hundred dignitaries crowded into the shingled house on the Long Island estate where Henry L. Stimson had lived for 47 years. They gathered to pay last respects to the ex-Secretary of War who had been in the Cabinets of four Presidents. The will he left was businesslike, but he had already written a final testament. It was the "Afterword" to the memoirs Stimson wrote three years ago. Quoted at his funeral, it bequeathed a faith for his unpeaceful times...
Last week Stimson, crippled with arthritis, was helped into a car so that he could enjoy the fine weather. Suddenly he doubled forward in pain. He was dead soon after they got him home and lowered him gently to a living-room couch...
Died. Henry Lewis Stimson, 83, lawyer, soldier and statesman, U.S. District Attorney by appointment of Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary of War under Taft, Governor General of the Philippines under Coolidge, Secretary of State under Hoover, Secretary of War under Franklin Roosevelt and Truman through World War II; in Huntington, N.Y. (see U.S. AFFAIRS...