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SICILY-SALERNO-ANZIO (413 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Little, Brown...
...Navy, tell them for [profanity's] sake to drop some shellfire on that road." Somehow the ensign raised the cruiser Boise, which devastated the tanks with 38 rounds of 6-in. shells. "General Patton's conversion to the value of naval-gunfire support," observes Rear Admiral Samuel Morison in the latest volume of his classic history of U.S. naval operations in World War II, "dates from that moment." With Volume IX of his projected 14 volume history, Author Morison (Jonathan Trumbull professor of history at Harvard) swings back to action in the Mediterranean. Though Italy was hardly...
...blue-water man, Morison dishes out most of his criticism to the other services. He pans Army brass for not pushing through plans to seize Rome by air after Mussolini's fall; had they done so, he says, the slogging campaign up southern Italy would not have been needed. Anzio, he thinks, was a blunder. But in general, says Morison, the Italian campaign was worth it all-unpopular like Grant's Wilderness campaign of 1864, but equally a campaign that had to be fought. Its bloody cost was more than repaid in Normandy's victories weeks later...
...Education, Francis M. Rogers, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Philip H. Rhinelander '29, director of General Education, William G. Perry, Jr. '35, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, Bart J. Box, professor of applied astronomy, Louis Harts '40, associate professor of government, Elating E. Morison '32, professor of industrial history at M.I.T., and Nellson C. Henney, professor of English at Suffolk University...