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DIED. JOHN TOLAND, 91, historian; in Connecticut. His account of the war in the Pacific, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945, was told primarily from the Japanese point of view and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize...
...DIED. JOHN TOLAND, 91, best-selling author whose book The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction; in Danbury, Connecticut. After writing six unpublished novels and 25 unproduced plays, Toland discovered the historical-nonfiction genre with a 1957 book about dirigibles. He followed The Rising Sun with books about the Korean War and an Adolf Hitler biography. His 1982 book Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath asserted that the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration had advance knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a claim widely denounced...
Finally, in the 58th minute, Penn broke the scoreless tie, as Kellianne Toland fed Heather Taylor for the game's opening score and her third goal of the season...
...many wonderful memories of Harvard I'll take with me," said Toland. "There was football's 29-29 'win' over Yale; the honor of being in attendance to see national championships in men's hockey, women's lacrosse and women's hockey; the successful merger of Radcliffe athletics...
Harvard has not announced who will assume Toland's duties, preferring to focus on the impact he made on the department...