The NYT opens the Dalton School line of inquiry. I’d love for some files to be unsealed but it’s not a public agency and I doubt there’s a private course of action to force it. Interesting that Epstein was fired. I don’t recall if that was known. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-dalton-teacher.html …
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To be sure, the succession from Papa Donald Barr serving in the OSS to son William Barr joining CIA after grad school has a bit of a Charles McCarry feel. But there was also just a geographical-academic-class nexus to the OSS and early CIA. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/10/nyregion/donald-barr-82-headmaster-and-science-honors-educator.html …
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Also a science fiction connection:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1150055053455241218 …
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Well, if you're collecting those, Samuel R. Delany went to Dalton. But in the 1950s.
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Although actually, the Dalton connection makes me wonder if headmaster Donald Barr wasn't aware in early 1970s of famous SF alumni, which might have influenced his choice of genre for his first fiction book.
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It seems like Barr Sr.'s interest in SF&F may have gone back farther than that. Here's his review, in the New York Times of 1 May 1955, of Tolkien's THE TWO TOWERS. https://www.nytimes.com/1955/05/01/archives/shadowy-world-of-men-and-hobbits-the-two-towers-being-the-second.html?searchResultPosition=1 …
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Right. Is my sense correct, though, Patrick, that he was disconnected from organized fandom? I mean, from the 50s through the 70s the scene was small enough people would notice, right?
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Clute's review made it sound like Barr was an outsider to SF world.
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