Word: historian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a handful of surviving relatives gathered, as they have regularly since 1908, to commemorate the anniversary. Sitting on upended fish boxes in the chill, barnlike steamer shed on Boston's India Wharf, they listened as Historian Edward Rowe Snow recounted the oft-told tale of the Portland's sinking...
...roll call of the Portland's dead for the last time. As each name was called, survivors threw flowers on the ebbing tide. A woman played Rock of Ages on a zither. It was the last meeting. The old were ailing, the young had no memories. Said Historian Snow: "After all, you've got to stop some time, and the 50th anniversary seemed to be a good time to stop...
...Historian Sterling regards himself as no great scholar ("I'm just an ordinary guy"), is known as an able, amiable administrator. When told that Stanford's trustees had picked him out of 200 candidates, he couldn't quite believe it. "A complete surprise," says Sterling. "I'm pleased, complimented, honored and gratified...
Recently, Karl Van Meter, development director of the National Association of Manufacturers, telephoned us to ask for 120 copies of TIME'S Oct. 18 cover story on Historian Douglas Southall Freeman. He was about to address the graduating class of the Dale Carnegie Institute to the effect that if you keep an account of all your time, you won't waste much of it. Biographer Freeman, he figured, as set forth in TIME'S story, was a classic example of this attitude, and passing out copies of the story would serve to illustrate the point...
...Yank estimate of F.D.R.: "He was the Commander in Chief, not only of our armed forces, but of our generation." It is also Sherwood's contention, and he does much to document it, that in the war years Harry Hopkins used his vast, F.D.R.-given power wisely. Later historians may question the wisdom, but they will not be able to question the power. Nor will any historian of the Roosevelt era be able to ignore this book...