Papers of Avis Howard Thayer Bohlen, 1929-1981

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Avis Howard (Thayer) Bohlen

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Avis (Thayer) Bohlen was born in Philadelphia, September 18, 1912, the daughter of George and Gertrude (Wheeler) Thayer, the eldest of six children. She attended Bryn Mawr, but did not graduate, spent a year studying abroad, 1932-1933, and on a visit to her brother in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, 1934, met Charles Eustis Bohlen, whom she married in 1935. They had three children: Avis Thayer (born April 20, 1940), Charles Eustis (April 11, 1947), and Celestine Ellen (December 17, 1950...

Ustinov, Peter

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Thayer family

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Ustinov, Peter

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Bohlen, Charles E. (Charles Eustis), 1904-1974

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Charles "Chip" Eustis Bohlen (1904-1973), diplomat and Russian specialist, was born in Clayton, New York. After Bohlen took his B.A. at Harvard in 1927, he went on a world tour on a tramp ship. Although he had not intended to become a diplomat, his extensive world travels with his family as a child and his course work at Harvard caused him to enter the Foreign Service in Washington in 1929. He was assigned as vice-consul at Prague until 1931, when he became vice-consul at Paris. Here he began se...

Thayer family.

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Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

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Bohlen, Avis Howard Thayer, 1912-1981.

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Bohlen, the wife of Charles Eustis Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, the Philippines and France, was active in the Association of American Foreign Service Women. The Avis Bohlen Award, administered by the American Foreign Service Association, was established in her honor in 1982 to give credit to the wives of Foreign Service officers. From the description of Papers, 1929-1981 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006920 ...

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997

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United States. Foreign Service

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Denby was a counselor of the American legation in Vienna. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1949. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864674 ...

Sulzberger, Marina Tatiana Lada, -1976

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Marina Sulzberger was the the wife of C. L. Sulzberger, a foreign‐affairs columnist of The New York Times and member of the Sulzberger family....

Association of American Foreign Service Women

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Alsop, Susan Mary.

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Bundy, McGeorge, 1919-1996

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McGeorge Bundy (1919-1996) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the national security advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He attended school at private institutions, including Dexter, Groton, and Yale University, from which he graduated first in his class with a degree in mathematics. As a junior fellow at Harvard University, Bundy changed his specialization to international relations. After serving in U.S. Army Intelligence during World War II, during which he rose...