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...BATAAN-John Hersey-Knopf...
...hero-hungry U.S., TIME Editor John Hersey has written the first important life of General Douglas MacArthur. It is seldom easy to write the life of a hero, especially when that hero is also an army. Who was the hero of the Battle of Bataan? Author Hersey answers this biographical question by writing two books...
This is how Author Hersey introduces General MacArthur when Manila had reached the incredible brink of war: "He had been first in his class at West Point and First Captain of the class, too. He had been the first member of the Rainbow Division. He had been the first American Army officer ever to become a Field Marshal. He had been the first American to be a four-star General twice. . . . He had always done his job with a flourish and well. . . . He had been handsome, and divorced, and sometimes rather colorfully dressed, and always full of splendid rhetoric...
...parts, made up of the same four men as last year's, was designed to include all approaches to the choice. It included George H. Chase, Dean of the University, Arthur S. Peace, professor of Latin, Frederick C. Packard, Jr., associate professor of Public Speaking, and Frank W. C. Hersey, faculty instructor in English...
...candidates for Honors or who are taking degrees in graduate school are eligible to compete for these positions, and must submit a manuscript of about 1,000 words, to be studied by a committee composed of Dean George R. Chase, Frank W. C. Hersey, instructor in English, Frederick C. Packard, associate professor of Public Speaking and Arthur S. Pease, professor of Latin, who will represent the Classics. The subject of the selection may be part of Honors theses and is usually of current interest...