Jun 2, 2015

Sat, Jun 2, 1945: Hemingway

"Last Sunday afternoon I saw 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.'  In this case Hollywood put out a story amazingly like Hemmingway's book.
"My companion to the feature was John Howes, who lives in the same suburb of Chicago as Mrs. Hemingway, the author's mother.... In regard to her son, Ernest, her terse comment is reported to be, 'He should be spanked.' He ran away at the age of 16 to join the marines.  In the course of the war he saw some very bitter fighting, and she believes that it warped his mind."

-- Letter from my father, Boulder, Colo., to his family, Bloomington, Kans., Saturday, June 2, 1945.

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