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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August, 1941, he entered the Navy as a public relations officer and was soon transferred to sea duty on the U.S.S. Enterprise. Four years aboard "The Big E," he saw it through almost every major Pacific naval campaign from Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal to the Gilberts and Marshalls. He was paid off in 1946 as the ship's First Lieutenant. Today, his ground-floor office at the northeast corner of Weld is still littered with books and documents about the war, which he is using in preparation of a pictures-and-text book commemorating the exploits and crew...

Author: By Aloyalus S. Mccabe, | Title: Faculty Profile | 3/8/1949 | See Source »

...Big display ads must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Lloyd C. Douglas-The Big Fisherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Big business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Prize for a Truth. Marquand's big project was the Mr. Moto series-deftly continued murder stories about an obsequious Japanese detective. He had discovered that he could do the Mr. Moto stories in half the time by dictating them, and he decided to take on Apley too. Most of his friends thought it was a mistake and few besides his publisher, the late Alfred McIntyre of Little, Brown, encouraged him. When it won him the Pulitzer Prize, the first thing he did was to get on the phone and rib the people who had told him to stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spruce Street Boy | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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