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Shipton came to the University in 1929 at the urging of Samuel E. Morison '08, Trumbull Professor of American History. Shipton, until then a lecturer in history at Brown, has been working on the biographies ever since...
Married. Samuel Eliot Morison, 62, historian, proper Bostonian, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean Sea, 1942), official historian of the Navy (History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II) and of his alma mater (Tercentennial History of Harvard, 1930-36); and tennis-playing, concert-singing Priscilla Barton, 44, Baltimore socialite; both for the second time; in Baltimore...
...General George Kenney's General Kenney Reports, a day-by-day account of his job and of the air war in the Southwest Pacific. Best of the books on the war at sea were Volume IV (Coral Sea} and Volume V (Guadalcanal) of Harvard Professor Samuel Eliot Morison's massive history of the Navy in World War II. What war at sea meant for the Germans was compactly set down in Anthony Martienssen's Hitler and His Admirals, written from captured Nazi records. One book seemed certain to become a minor classic of its kind: British...
...other was planned as a formal history based on all available information-"unofficial" to allow for criticism but backed to the hilt by all the resources o.f Navy documents and officialdom. The man who proposed the idea to F.D.R. early in 1942 got the job. He was Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard professor of history and Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer of Christopher Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean Sea-TIME, March...
Tanaka Was Superb. Morison, another breed of sea dog entirely, is rapidly but thoroughly chewing on the bigger chunk (14 projected volumes) that he has bitten off. To judge from the first five, Morison's history may well be the permanent hull which future workmen will occasionally caulk but never have to dismantle. Because "he has had full access to captured enemy documents and has used them with imaginative skill as well as care, his accounts of battle action have a quality of two-sidedness which dissolves crude jingoism. In Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, as in his three earlier...