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During World War II, he was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services as a code clerk in London, in 1942. Lord then enrolled at Yale Law School, interrupting his studies to join the United States Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He then studied history at Princeton University and graduated in 1939. Like many other boys who attended high school at Baltimore's Gilman School, he spent his summers at Hyde Bay Camp for Boys at Hyde Bay in Cooperstown, New York, where he was awarded the honorary title of 'The Commodore' and later returned to reign over many annual camp events, like the eight inch regatta and closing barbecue and bonfire.

In July 1925, at the age of 7, Lord traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with his mother and sister, from New York to Cherbourg and Southampton, on the RMS Olympic, the Titanic 's sister ship. Lord's grandfather, Richard Curzon Hoffman, was president of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company ('Old Bay Line') steamship firm in the 1890s. His father, who was a lawyer, died when Lord was just three years old. and Henrietta MacTier (Hoffman) Lord on October 8, 1917. Lord was born in Baltimore, Maryland to John Walter Lord Sr.