Word: memoired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacArthur's lieutenants are coming forward to speak for him. General George Kenney, his air commander, has already written exuberantly but superficially of The Mac Arthur I Know. Currently General Courtney Whitney, MacArthur's adviser and military aide from old Australia days, is cranking up an authoritative memoir for publication next year. Now, with the expert help of Author-Critic John Chamberlain, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, 62, one of the original "Bataan boys," tells of the ten years he served as MacArthur...
Mother McKenzie, vacationing in Italy now worries that such passages may one day disturb her sons, "now sophisticated young Londoners." If they have a good share of her own temperament, she need not worry. They will probably grow up to applaud her for a fine memoir and graceful evidence of a civilized mind...
...Blue Chip is not so much a novel as a fictional memoir warmly evocative of another time. Author Rennie's granddad was a great plunger in Colorado silver; his bankruptcy in the panic of 1893 was "fabulous." Her dad, like Jim Packer, was a speculator in Arizona copper. Young Tommy Packer, who tells the story of his father's faith and failure, does it with a mixture of sympathy, skepticism and faith as authentic as it is engaging...
...this capacity last spring that he was summoned to testify before Senator Joseph McCarthy's committee, and it was this hearing that stimulated Wechaler to write a frank and fascinating memoir of the past two decades, The Age of Suspicion. The autobiography is a recalling of history, not a hiding or a rewring of it. Weschsler lived the three most agonizing years of his life with those who re-write history, not a hiding and he spent the subset quest 16 years fighting against communism and fascism and for liberalism. Most readers will be canvinced beyond a shadow...
Murder in the Bow. In The Boat, it was every man for himself in one of the less altruistic episodes in the annals of the sea. Author Gibson's gory little memoir, a classic of its kind, begins when the Dutch steamer Rooseboom, carrying more than 500 evacuees from Malaya, was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean, halfway to Ceylon. Gibson was one of 135 survivors who swam to the only lifeboat left afloat, one designed to hold 28 (80 got aboard). Like many of the others, Gibson was wounded: his collarbone was fractured and a shell fragment had lodged...