Word: macarthurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What are you writing?" he asked. The answer was an unexpected surprise. "I am writing my reminiscences," said General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. With that casual admission, the articulate hero of Corregidor and Bataan and a host of other evocative place names scattered along the land scape of three wars first announced his personal contribution to the written history of his times...
Whitney had been well aware of MacArthur's avowed reluctance to add his own words to the growing MacArthur legend. And now here was the old soldier already halfway through the job. Three months later, with an aide's alacrity and a friend's care, Whitney slipped the manuscript into a box and carried it to LIFE Magazine. Last week, in the publishing coup of the year, LIFE purchased all rights - publishing, movie and television - to the memoirs of Douglas Mac Arthur...
...book, said Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce, ranks "with the greatest historical writings of any age." It is, he said, "a very full run-through of 50 or more years of American his tory." At a press conference in MacArthur's honor, the old soldier was more modest about his own work. "The reminiscences," he said, "are not a history, they are not an autobiography, they are not a diary. But they have something of all those elements in them...
...Mariana Islands, intelligence that was radioed to Australia and Pearl Harbor, helped win the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Fertig's forces, never more than 40,000 men, forced the enemy to commit more than 150,000 troops in its final effort to clean up Mindanao just before MacArthur's return...
...free man again, Raymond Lopez walked to MacArthur Park, wiped off a bench and sat down. Wearily, sorrowfully, he spoke of his departed friend Mrs. Hanush. "What is wrong," he asked, "with helping things to live...