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CORAL SEA, MIDWAY AND SUBMARINE ACTIONS (307 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Little, Brown...
...STRUGGLE FOR GUADALCANAL (389 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Little, Brown...
...sight of water that he started riding a ferry back and forth across the Ohio River "just to remember what it felt like." After his discharge, Albion traveled via Harvard to the Admiralty in London, where he turned out a Ph.D thesis for another naval historian, Professor Samuel Eliot Morison...
During the last war, Albion went to work writing the administrative history of the Navy, "following in Sam Morison's wake, a usual." Albion covered 50,000 miles, interviewed Admirals by their West Indian swimming pools, accumulated a squad of Wave secretaries, and filled 120 typescript volumes. He found the heat of Washington uncondusive to the writing up of all this material, however, and talked the Navy into moving the Waves up to his home city of Portland, Me. The stimulation of the salt air increased his productivity considerably and he shortly expects to bring out the first...
This incident, according to Samuel Eliot Morison '07, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History who spoke last night on "The History of Harvard," happened during the first year of Harvard's 312 year existence, and not many years later "a fifteen hole" outhouse was constructed on the location of the present University Hall...