N.Y.T. [i.e. New York times oral history program -- 1]

Educator, archaeologist. Topics include: youth and education; Ministry of Education in Peru, 1909; Rector of University of Cuzco, 1910-23; Director General of Education of Peru, 1923-31; educational problems and policies in Latin America, student strikes; archaeological discoveries and collections; Inter-American Conferences; American Embassy in Lima from 1931; Tacna-Arica Plebiscite Commission 1925-26. Impressions of Hiram Bingham, Axel Wenner-Gren, Paul Fejos, Gen. John J. Pershing, and many others.

Diplomat, orientalist. Topics include: education; British foreign service in Japan; Japanese cultural life; World War II; peace terms; East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Politician, clergyman. Topics include: impressions of United States Presidents, 1912-65; activities in support of socialist and labor organizations; newspaper career; early political campaigns; work for civil liberties: freedom of speech in Jersey City, sharecropper protection, defense of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

University president. Topics include: election as President of University of Chicago, 1929; concept of a university; relationships with faculty, students, trustees, alumni, and the general public; experiments: Great Books courses, divisions, liberal arts college; professional schools and the university; Rush Medical College; attacks on University of Chicago program; effect of World War II nuclear research; Encyclopedia Britannica; General Robert E. Wood; William Benton.

Financier, newspaper executive. Topics include: childhood and education; early financial operations; farm credit during the 1920s; Federal Farm Loan Bureau; Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Federal Reserve System during the banking crisis, 1933; Washington Post, 1933-1953; World Bank and International Monetary Fund; impressions of Presidents Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and many other political and financial figures.

Lawyer, judge. Topics include: education at the University of Chicago; law practice in Chicago and New York, N.Y., general counsel of Agricultural Adjustment Administration; National Recovery Administration; impressions of Henry A. Wallace, Chester Davis, George Peek, Rexford G. Tugwell, Harry Hopkins, Alger Hiss, and Hugh Johnson.

Archbishop. Topics include: childhood in Syria; refugee, illness; orphanage and monastery care; St. Mark's monastery and seminary, Jerusalem; exploration of caves near Jericho and Jordan; Egypt; archaeological studies; St. Catherine's monastery at Mount Sinai; Archbishop and Metropolitan of Jerusalem, 1946; Dead Sea scrolls: discovery, problems of interpretation and authentication; United States, 1949: lectures and exhibits, sale of scrolls, 1954; detailed description of scrolls, contents and significance.

Naval officer. Topics include: Naval Academy; early cruises, gunnery training; World War I: Scapa Flow, German Fleet surrender; Navy Department reorganization; arms limitation, naval budget, congressional liaison; Hoover good will cruise to South America, 1928; Naval War College, 1937; War Plans Division, 1940; World War II: United-Canada Joint Board Armed Defense, convoys and patrols, Murmansk, Iceland; Pacific theater commands: detailed analysis of amphibious assault at Tarawa; operations at Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima, Okinawa; plans for assault on Japan; National War College, Naval Academy superintendent; Naval Home. Accounts of Generals Douglas MacArthur and Holland M. Smith; Admirals Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, Raymond Spruance, Kelly Turner, and othrer military, naval, and political figures.

Geneticist. Topics include: childhood and education in Russia; early interest in genetics; experiences during revolutionary and post revolutionary years; training in genetics in Russia; Rockefeller fellowship to work in United States, 1928; California Institute of Technology, 1930-1940; professor of zoology, Columbia University, 1940. Detailed descriptions of work with T.H. Morgan, A.H. Sturtevant, and C.B. Bridges. Problems of artificial selection; racism; Zoology Department, Columbia University, 1940-1962; research in California, Mexico, Brazil; Latin American scientists; travels to New Guinea, Australia, Egypt, India, Indonesia. Impressions of noted scientists.

Naval officer. Topics include: family background; Naval Academy; early cruises, Central and South America; naval aviation training, Pensacola, 1919; aeronautical engineering, 1922-24; shore and sea commands, 1924-40: cruiser duty, dive bombing squadron, war games, Naval Air Maintenance Procurement Division, Bureau of Aeronautics; executive officer, Enterprise, 1940: ship organization manual; Langley, 1941; World War II: duty in Java, Australia, 1942; Captain of the new Lexington, 1943-44; the Marshalls, Truk; Commander, Carrier Division 24, 1944-45: operations in Western Pacific and Philippines areas, Leyte, air strikes; technical training command, Chief of Naval Air Technical Training, 1945-48; Korean War; Commander NATO striking fleet. Comments on naval colleagues, especially Admirals William Halsey, Hart, William Moffett, and Arthur Radford.