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...Died. Samuel Eliot Morison, 88, master of the historical narrative, who wrote more than 50 books chronicling American and maritime history; after a stroke; in Boston. A skilled yachtsman and popular Harvard teacher since 1915, he sailed 10,000 miles retracing the course of Columbus for his 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea, which won the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes; in World War II he served on a dozen ships (he retired a rear admiral), collecting information for his 15-volume account of U.S. naval operations in that conflict. Critics also acclaimed his two-volume The European Discovery...
When one of the big shots in the History Department eventually writes the "official history" of Harvard after its 1936 tercentary, where Samuel Eliot Morison '08 left off, odds are he won't mention Chester W. Hartman '57, a former assistant professor of City Planning at the Graduate School of Design...
...Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History emeritus, was in Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday, reportedly suffering from a stroke...
...story on the tape gaps indeed came from Deep Throat -as he has written it did-then that narrows the circle further. Awareness of the erasures was limited at first to Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Stephen Bull, Haig-and three men then serving as Nixon's lawyers: Samuel Powers, Garment and Buzhardt. Though he was long gone from the White House, Charles Colson is also known to have learned of the tape gaps soon after their discovery by Buzhardt...
...Died. Samuel Belkin, 64, Polish-born chancellor of Manhattan's Yeshiva University; after a long illness; in New York City. Belkin supervised the university's growth from a relatively small seminary to an institution that included America's first medical school (Albert Einstein) and first liberal-arts college for women (Stern) under Jewish sponsorship, as well as several graduate schools...