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Fessenden School (West Newton, Mass.), it was Horace Morison Jr., now a sales agent in New York for Pan American World Airways...
...LETTERS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, VOLS. VII and VIII (1,621 pp.)-Edited by Elting E. Morison-Harvard...
With Volumes VII and VIII, covering the years 1909 to 1919, Editor Morison and a 21-man research staff have finished their work of sorting and mounting Roosevelt's many-sided correspondence, a work which should provide future Roosevelt biographers with a fine photographic likeness to go by. Oyster Bay's leading Republican, who wrote some 25 books during his lifetime, was quite possibly the most literate tenant the White House ever had,* but he never let his erudition interfere with a good reporter's knack for saying what he had to say quickly and directly. This...
...wound up his great six-volume history of the war with Triumph and Tragedy, which carried events from the Normandy beaches to final victory, and ended with Churchill's defeat in 1945 at the hands of Labor. With New Guinea and the Marianas, Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison completed the eighth volume (six more to come) of his U.S. naval history of the war, a job second in scope and flair only to Churchill's own. And from the U.S. Army came Louis Morton's The Fall of the Philippines, Volume 19 of its projected...
Parked on Clark. One of the best is Louis Morton's The Fall of the Philippines. Historian Morton, 39, chief of the Pacific section of the Army's historical department, is no Samuel Eliot Morison or S. L. A. Marshall (The River and the Gauntlet), but he writes with the quiet authority of a man who spent 1943-45 in the South Pacific and the Philippines, spent a lot of further time digging through Army files, private letters and diaries, and personally interviewing survivors. His book builds to a melancholy climax, from the bombing of Clark Field through...