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Strong Silent Types | Princeton Alumni Weekly

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Inside the hidden history of secretaries and stenographers at Princeton

In the early 1950s, Miss Caroline Underwood, a secretary with a pleasant, puckish face who dressed in neat wool blazers and skirts, had a very important job at the Institute for Advanced Study. Every day, she would sit at a desk outside professor Albert Einstein’s office and intercept the members of the public who came in to speak with him. Caroline Underwood Illustration by Kathryn Rathke These visitors never had an appointment, but they were often on missions of great importance. They had theories about how to build a perpetual motion machine, or how to achieve world peace, that they…

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