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...those who know him best Sam Morison's bark is worse than his bite. At the age of fifty-four, the scholar with an almost forbidding air of formality has mellowed into an affable squire with a Pickwickian sense of humor. Though his main interests are still U. S. History before 1860 and Christopher Columbus, to hear him talk one would think that life consisted solely of sailing, horseback riding, and the tinkle of slender glasses filled with wine. Back in 1917 Professor Morison talked differently. The call to arms saw him enlist as a private, and though he never...
...March of this year, barely four months after the outbreak of the Second World War, Professor Morison, his reputation as a leading historian firmly established by texts such as the classic "Maritime History of Massachusetts," published the greatest work of his career. From the tumultuous reception accorded it by critics and public alike, the monumental "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" promises to remain for all posterity the classic biography of Columbus. At all events, it justifies the inscription on one of the Professor's most cherished possessions--a photograph of Franklin Roosevelt which he autographed "To my friend Sam Morison...
DIED. EMILY MORISON BECK, 88, dogged editor of three editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; in Canton, Mass. Between 1952 and 1980, she scoured works of literature and history to update and refine the essential reference book. In the classics, she favored Shakespeare and the Bible, expanding the contributions from both, but also introduced quotes from Muhammad Ali, Bob Dylan and popular films (e.g., "E.T., phone home...
Samuel Eliot Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard...
historian Samuel Eliot Morison Class...