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...world to know where it is heading. Born James Morris in Somerset to an English mother and Welsh father, he spent the final years of World War II as a British army intelligence officer in Palestine and Italy before going off to study English at Oxford. He married Elizabeth Tuckniss, daughter of a colonial tea planter, and talked his way into a reporting job at London's Times newspaper. Morris famously broke the news of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's historic 1953 ascent of Mount Everest (the reporter himself made it two-thirds of the way up). After publishing...
...attitude of tolerance and self-amusement. But in his 20s, James' secret sense of anguishing incompleteness seemed hopeless. The doctors whom he saw blithely suggested that he wear gayer clothes, or bluffly urged him to "soldier on for a lifetime" as a male. Then he met Elizabeth Tuckniss, the daughter of a Ceylon tea planter...
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