Word: historian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eleanor Roosevelt's This I Remember was the historically valuable reminiscing of a wife who concluded that "I was one of those who served his purposes." Solid to Fascinating. Most of the year's good biographies had literary figures for their subjects. Others ranged from worthy-solid (Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis' authoritative but somewhat unwieldy career study of John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy} to fascinating (Richard Aldington's The Strange Life of Charles Waterton, an en gaging story of an English eccentric...
Bernard DeVoto is a historian and ex-Harvard lecturer who makes his real money by writing slick-magazine love fiction (usually under the pen name of John August) and gets his prejudices off his chest, with none of the historian's usual judicial balance, in Harper's Magazine. A few weeks ago, in Harper's, he proposed a public campaign of passive rebellion against J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Playwright-Author Robert E. Sherwood (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Roosevelt and Hopkins') was the only new member elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose membership is limited to 50. He filled the spot vacated by the death of Historian James Truslow Adams (Founding of New England, The Living Jefferson...
Reverend Henry Dunster succeeded Eaton and built the first college buildings, placing the dining room in Harvard Hall. In spite of his more orderly system, and the largest kitchen in New England, the College had established a reputation for poor food that, according to one historian, "clung to it for more than two centuries...
...England by Henry's political enemies. In any event, they soon turned up at the Vatican, to be exhibited as evidence that rebellious Henry had misbehaved while still married to wife No. i, Katherine of Aragon. Now, with the political issues cooled by some 400 years, Editor-Historian Henry Savage has gotten Vatican permission to publish them, along with a few other extant letters between Henry and his several wives...