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Kenneth tells how at age 4 he would often go sledding down the hill on Main Street with the help of college students, and how his mother lived in terror as a result. He explains that though there were dangers, nothing bad actually happened.

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Kenneth sings a song from his childhood. He mentions that it just came to mind as he was washing the dishes the other day, and Margaret was surprised to that she had never heard it before. Kenneth is quite amused by the way that things that have been…

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Margaret describes the wedding ring that Kenneth had sent her in preparation of their marriage. Margaret recalls going to breakfast wearing it (she had forgotten) and she was terrified afterwards that someone might have noticed.

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Kenneth tells how at age 4, mad at his father and his brother for often siding against his mother, he ran away and was captured by and old man at whose house he spent the night and eventually was taken back home the next morning. This was the first…

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Kenneth had another roommate, Harry Coulter, who was an ex-GI. Kenneth remembers him as plain-spoken and a nice guy. 

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Kenneth moved back to campus after studying all summer in preparation for the coming year. He roomed with Billy Irwin, who had a family and a house in town and so wouldn't use his campus room much. 

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Kenneth recalls riding the train with his mother and feasting on the railroad dining car. They had had vacation in Gull Lake, to which they had invited Margaret. They were coming back to Chicago.

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Kenneth had wanted a good pictures of both his father and mother since college days, and for his birthday that spring of 1927, they sent him pictures which they had specially framed and which he kept the rest of his life.

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Wheaton English professor Elise Dow made a strong impression on Kenneth. He considers her to be the only professor at Wheaton that he truly enjoyed studying under. Kenneth and Margaret recall her as being far beyond the other professors

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Kenneth recalls professor "Das Machen," a bachelor who would go around singing that nobody loves him. It was a way to invite people to come to his room and enjoy treats and chat.

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Kenneth tells about his running away in the subway and how the family searched for him while he hid behind a pillar.

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As required, Kenneth was to preach for students and faculty. He was nervous but got a good report from his professor of homiletics.

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Kenneth, then six years old, played with a group of boys aged four or five a game called "follow-the-leader." He led the group to jump out of a first story window, then a second story window, and finally from the attic. Two of the boys wouldn't jump…

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Kenneth was asked to preach at Princeton and he did it the most natural but effective way he could. He almost won the sermon contest without knowing that he was participating in it.

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Kenneth tells about his childhood gang fights using beebee guns and .22 shorts in pistols. They would wear heavy overcoats and shoot at each other with these things. Kenneth sings, "In the fields and in the marshes." 

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Kenneth tells about his painting of the car the church had bought him. The mixture of paint and enamel gave the car a gloss like a mirror. Margaret recalls that Kenneth once had all the "insides" of the car out.

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Kip has been reading Kenneth's letters of the time to Margaret, who was still in Richmond, Indiana with the children. Kenneth was forever expressing concern about her health, and urging her to walk for exercise, something she loathed to do. "I just…

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Wriston decided that the State Department needed to be restructured. In this, It was decided that, rather than having two different services, the departmental officer and the foreign service officer, it would be best if the two were merged into one.…

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Kenneth, now not having work because his position had been abolished, looked to solve his situation. He found Walt Rostow's office to be of interest, and did some work for him without anyone's knowing, as technically it wasn't allowed under mandate.

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At the State Department, Kenneth's official title was International Relations Officer, Southeast Asian Affairs. He worked chiefly with Thailand to begin with. Then for a time he also handled Indonesia. The State brought someone in to be the Chief and…

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When he later worked on the Operations Coordinating Board, he often said that he had been given the best outdoor job in town. He was officially assigned to follow up on all operations to carry out U.S. policy in countries from Afghanistan to the…

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Kenneth received, through some persuasion, a three year contract at American University.  He was instantly chosen to set up the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. The program was quite successful and active, as Kenneth was quite up to date…

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While Donovan was in Thailand, he'd go on lengthy walks daily. He would walk during the heat of the day, wearing down even the marines who would guard him. When asked about it, he merrily responded that he wasn't fearing death--he wouldn't ask anyone…

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In 1953, William Donovan became our ambassador to Thailand. A woman named Ruth, who headed the passport office, warned him that he needed to cultivate a relationship with the desk officer for Thailand if he wanted things to go well. She was an old…

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As Donovan has been recently appointed to be the Ambassador to Thailand, Kenneth must brief him on what this might entail. As Kenneth spent several weeks with Donovan in Thailand, he explained Thailand's relation to other countries of South and…

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