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Washington examinations in strategy, tactics, As president of the Naval War analysis and management. College from 1972 to 1974, Carter on Stansfield Turner kept a sign on his These practices and his own door that read: "I need one good TV Today penchant for a heavy intellectual idea a day." diet did not endear Turner to all of It was characteristic of a man President Carter's first tele- his peers. whom his associates and friends vised news conference since his describe as endlessly curious about inauguration will be shown today at philosophy, theater, opera, interna- 11:30 a.m. on the three major However, he won respect at tional politics and military affairs. networks. Newport for innovations, such as a series of humanities lectures by Stan Turner, whom President The press conference will be outsiders, including his friend, Her- Carter designated yesterday as his carried live on Channel 4 (KRON), man Wouk, the author of the Caine choice to head the Central Intellig- Channel 5 (KPIX) and Channel 7 Mutiny. An evening at the Turner ence Agency and to function as his (KGO). It will be repeated at 11:30 household, a colleague recalled, director of Central Intelligence, p.m. on Channel 9 (KQED). was likely to include a politician or was an all-round student of the a historian. world around him as early as his high school days in Highland Park, Ill. they could do" about a putative One of his guests at a college man overboard on instant notice. seminar was the Georgia governor, He was also near the top of his , who was his class- class wherever he studied. An associate from his days at mate at the Naval Academy in the the Newport, R.I., war college accelerated class of 1947, which ' There is one side to Turner finished a year early. which a naval associate described described this as a continuation of as "breezy and informal," and the "shakeup politics" he had insti- another which he said made one tuted on his arrival there. His first Turner had come to the Navy "not mistake for one minute that he day there he told the students to by way of the Naval Reserve at is an admiral." "feel right at home" and show their , which he attend- families around the campus. After ed from 1941 to 1943. He finished When he commanded the Sec- this lulling start, he said: "Report 25th in a class of 820, served on a ond Fleet in 1974 in the Atlantic, he back to the first class in one hour." carrier and a , and then won was accustomed to make surprise a Rhodes Scholarship. At Oxford he visits to his ships by helicopter. The shakeup proceeded with studied philosophy, politics and Before landing, he would toss a life his demand that the college serve economics, receiving a masters de- preserver into the ocean and then not as "a year off" from naval duty, gree in arts in 1950. demand that the crew "show what but a program involving tough He was on destroyers during the , during which he earned a and other medals. He also commanded a guided-missile frigate in the Viet- nam conflict.

His shore duty included two tours in defense systems analysis at the Pentagon. He was appointed commander-in-chief of Allied Forces, Southern Europe, in Au- gust, 1975.

He was born Dec. 1, 1923, in Highland Park, a prosperous sub- urb of Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan, the son of Oliver Stans- field and Wilhelmina Josephine Turner. His father was a real estate broker.

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He was elected class president "corny puns" in the yearbook, a in his sophomore year of high habit he appears to have retained. school and was a football letterman. Mary Mikkelson, who went to He married the former Patricia school with him, recalls him as Busy Whitney in 1953. Their son, "nice to everybody" and "into Geoffrey, is a Navy lieutenant everything." stationed in Maryland, and their daughter Laurel is married. The At Annapolis, he also made the Turners recently became grandpar- football team despite his relatively ents. short stature, and played left guard. He continues to enjoy sports - Turner does not smoke, drinks playing tennis and squash and rarely and works long days, his swimming when he has a chance. associates report. His classmates remembered his Neu, York Times