IF there is a particle of Truth in Pitkin's phrase: Life begins at Forty (and I suspect you [and I] would throw verbal custard pies at the Pitkin, Dale Carnegie School of Thinkers) then I shall arrive, biotically, on this planet in <u>exactly</u> one month:

Port
City

War +
Provincial

School boy

Languages:

Man-St. Gabbitt
ARROWSMITH

Science

Pre-Hitler
Germany

Laboratory

Roving
these Unit. States
De-provincializing
the New Englander

Slow
maturation 1937-42 : Noo Yawk : literary research : odd jobs ; tutoring ; experimental writing (unpublished : not ready).

War
Again!

For First
time I
regard myself
as "educated".

1908 : b. at Boston, of Jewish parents, immigrants (1890) From Lithuania-Polish-Russian disputed Frontier

1913-20 : Oldest grade school in city, in
shadow of Old North Church. Summer
vacations in Maine. 1919 : set type
by hand on composing stick.

1925 : Boston Latin School...rigid classical curriculum (no Greek, unfortunately; I chose German). worked in the "morgue" of Boston American, 1923.

1929 : Harvard, A.B : chemistry and
philosophy. Non-Faternity Friends,
most of them heading For Med. School.

Summer-Fall : Univ. of Berlin. Some
'1929 correspondence: NY Herald-Tribune.

Wall St. crash shook my intellectual
world. Home by Xmas.

1930-31 : Research in Biochemistry : Harvard Med. School. Failed to take Ph.D. when my stomach demanded Food.

1932-36 : "Free" lance reporting : Chicago
National Conventions ; Boulder Dam ;
Olympic Games, Hollywood, San Francisco
starving thru Depression in every
one of the 48 states... living
in most of the cities... plus SauK
Centre. Bright memory: my
Friendship with Tom Wolfe. A beer
at Brevvoort with Carl Van Doren: talk
on Arrowsmith, Maugham, Franklin,
Emerson, Santayana.

1942-45 : Army Air Forces : Sergeant .. advanced
Flying school, Yuma, Arizona. .. In
the summer (when was it Not?) the
temperatures were in commensurable !

Today : Free, (ready) and well-rooted. For
the eventualities of the second half
of the 20th century :
My time is my own
I HATE
COMMUNISTS!

"For Alexander Hamilton named, -
A patriot loved, admired and famed --"

BUILT IN 1805

CHESTNUT STREET, SALEM, MASS.

HAMILTON HALL

Podsnap: I don't want to know about it; I don't choose to discuss it, HAMILTON HALL I don't admit it!
In Fact: Not English!

"The stabley hall where old and young still cluster
Has banqueted great men whose names give lustre

That rose from deeds that they considered simple
But for their lasting fame have proved most ample'