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Oliver Wendell Holmes, late, great Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1902-1932) offered some advice to all youngsters in a letter which was recalled in the Atlantic last week by his biographer, Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus). The letter was written when the Justice was old, alone and with "no one to call him by his first name," to students who wanted to celebrate his goth birthday: "On the eighth of March, 1862 . . . the sloop Cumberland was sunk by the Merrimac, off Newport News. The vessel went down with her flag flying-and when a little later...
Yankee from Olympus, by Catherine Drinker Bowen, a biography of Chief Justice Holmes, remained on the list of popular books all year by virtue of the wisdom, the knowledge of law, the humor and the span of American history embodied in its hero...
...sell the Air Forces' own Official Guide (525,000 copies printed)-it has an execrable portrait of Franklin Roosevelt as a frontispiece. These were added last week to a suppress list which already includes such "dangerous" intellectual weapons as Charles Beard's The Republic and Catherine Drinker Bowen's biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Yankee from Olympus (TIME, May 8).* Any of these, said the Army, might influence the 1944 elections...
YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS - Catherine Drinker Bowen - Little, Brown...
Since the late great Justice Holmes died, in 1935, he has been the subject of eight books and 47 major articles. The latest is the most romantic - a fictionalized biography by Catherine Drinker Bowen, co-author with Barbara Von Meek of Beloved Friend (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937), fictionalized biography of the Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky...