All his life Stimson Bullitt has belonged to Seattle, with excursions elsewhere that included undergraduate years at Yale and another four in the Navy (where he was wounded by shrapnel as a member of a volunteer landing party at Leyte). A ninth-generation American lawyer, his first political activity was a solo letter-writing campaign in 1942-43 in defense of Japanese-Americans. He has taken part in civic affairs, locally and nationally, in the fields of government reorganization, political process reforms, race relations, foreign affairs and conservation. Among honors he has received, perhaps the best known was Nixon's "Enemies List."