Eve of a Hundred Midnights (44 page)

322        “I only wish”:
DH, letter to ESM, March 16, 1942, New York.

322        On the morning:
“USN Deck Log
USS Lexington
March 1942,” USN Deck Logs, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1798–2007, RG 24, National Archives, College Park, MD.

323        “With little to do”:
MJ, “This Is Our Battle” (unpublished manuscript), March 18, 1942, Somewhere at Sea, p. 1.

324        that same night:
USS Lexington
Deck Log.

325        Mel noted that none:
MJ, “In the Air Somewhere in Australia,” p. 10.

325        Crewmen played:
Ibid.

325        “I wish I knew”:
DH, memorandum to F. D. Pratt, Time Inc., March 30, 1942, New York, NY, p. 1.

326        Around the same time:
DH, letter to Selective Service headquarters, Local Board 98, March 23, 1942.

326        “We had come far enough”:
MJ, “In the Air Somewhere in Australia,” p. 11.

327        “Our first glimpse of the country”:
Ibid.

Chapter 12: “Almost Too Good to Be True”

328        “No details yet”:
DH, March 30, 1942 memorandum, p. 1.

329        Shortly after the
Doña Nati:
MJ, “Personal Statement by Alien Passenger,” Commonwealth of Australia.

329        After filling out the forms:
Lee,
They Call It Pacific,
p. 269.

330        “In Bataan at night”:
MJ, “In the Air Somewhere in Australia,” p. 1.

331        “I found, you know”:
THW, letter to family, June 12, 1942, somewhere in the Indian Ocean, copy courtesy of Heyden White Rostow.

332        “
Time
's Corregidor correspondent”:
THW, cable to Robert Haas and Bennett Cerf, undated (April, 1942), Melbourne, Australia.

332        “There are a lot of familiar”:
MJ, “Melbourne Cable” (cable to DH), April 9, 1942.

332        “Unbelievably in months”:
“Philippine Epic” (Composite Story),
Life,
April 13, 1942.

334        All the comforts:
AWJF, April 10, 1942 letter.

335        “At last Bataan fell”:
“Bataan Wounded Lived with Pain,”
Life,
April 20, 1942, p. 33.

335        “If ever men were”:
MJ, “Melbourne Cable,” p. 1.

336        “In Australia we saw”:
AWJF, “Ours Is Full of Holes,” p. 39.

336        “Being married is wonderful”:
AWJF, April 10, 1942 letter.

338        But when the announcer:
March of Time,
radio rebroadcast, May 17, 1942.

339        “Indeed, it was a case”:
Allison Ind,
Bataan: The Judgment Seat
, New York: Macmillan, 1944, p. 373.

340        “short hop”:
Lee,
They Call It Pacific,
radio adaptation from “Words at War,” NBC, July 10, 1943, available at: archive.org/details/WordsAtWar_995.

340        Two days before:
“Jacoby, M., Correspondent Killed in Crash, Gave His $1,600 Savings to Chinese Relief,”
Evening Star
(Washington, D.C.), April 30, 1942.

340        Before Mel left:
Romulo, p. 315.

341        “[Mel and Annalee] had”:
Diller, February 2, 1944 letter.

342        “had narrow escapes”:
MJ, “In the Air Somewhere in Australia,” p. 12.

343        “We heard of unspeakable”:
Romulo, p. 314

343        “I hope something”:
MJ, cable to DH, April 8, 1942, Melbourne, Australia.

344        “manly, handsome”:
Ind, p. 375.

344        “especially dark”:
AWJF, cable to DH, May 28, 1942, p. 4.

346        Lieutenant Jack Dale:
Bob Alford,
Darwin's Air War: 1942–1945: An Illustrated History
(Knoxville, TN: Coleman's Printing, 2011).

348        Colonel Ind recounted:
Ind., p. 377.

Chapter 13: Soldier of the Press

349        Early in the morning:
AWJF, telegram to ESM, April 30, 1942, Melbourne, Australia.

351        But Annalee was furious:
Fadiman, July 31, 2014 conversation.

352        “Mel's career was”:
THW, letter to ESM, May 28, 1942, p. 2, Melbourne, Australia.

352        “I think that those last weeks”:
Fadiman, July 31, 2014 conversation.

352        “When we heard”:
THW, May 28, 1942 letter, p. 2.

352        Finally, one afternoon:
THW, letter to Mary White, June 12, 1942, Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, p. 1.

354        “There is nothing”:
AWJF, letter to ESM, date unknown (probably late May or June 1942).

355        “There was so many”:
Ibid.

356        She instantly felt:
AWJF, “Dear Mother and Dad #2.”

357        “spent an hour in a movie”:
Ibid.

359        He died almost immediately:
“Whitmore Rites Today” (news clipping from unknown publication), October 1942.

359        Tom Seller:
Thomas Seller, letter to ESM, January 24, 1943, p. 1.

359        1943 Veronica Lake:
“So Proudly We Hail: Realistic Story in the Philippines Draws on ‘LIFE' Pictures for Authentic Detail,”
Life,
October 4, 1943, p. 69.

360        On the afternoon:
C. Mydans, personal notes, “Dec. 31, 1943,” in Notebook 6 (courtesy of the Mydans' family).

361        Shortly after Leland's:
S. Mydans, “Book-of-the-Month Author,” p. 6.

361        Among the interned:
Fadiman, July 31, 2014 conversation.

361        Annalee persuaded her mother:
Fadiman, email to the author, August 1, 2014.

362        “She would really have”:
Fadiman, July 31, 2014 conversation.

362        writing Pacific and Asia:
S. Mydans, “Annalee Jacoby,” p. 6.

363        “Inflation had increased”:
MacKinnon and Friesen,
China Reporting,
p. 51.

363        “After all this censorship”:
Fadiman, July 31, 2014.

365        “It was more than destiny”:
“Philippine Epic.”

365        “Somehow, I feel there”:
THW, letter to ESM, May 29, 1947, New York, NY, p. 2.

366        “It was a remarkable”:
Walter Sullivan, “1983: . . . The Crucial 1940's,”
Nieman Reports
(Spring 1983), niemanreports.org/articles/1983-the-crucial-1940s/.

366        In 1985, Annalee:
“Memories Come Flooding Back as Chongqing Is Revisited,”
China Daily,
April 10, 1985, chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/html/cd/1985/198504/19850410/19850410004_1.html.

367        But Annalee:
Fadiman, July 31, 2014 conversation.

368        “There is a tremendous”:
MJ, letter to HRL, January 28, 1942, Corregidor, the Philippines.

368        “I've often wondered”:
Fadiman, July 31, 2014 conversation.

Epilogue

372        “I remember it like”:
Peggy S. Cole, interview, May 30, 2013.

373        “He was wealthy, handsome”:
Ibid.

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Abend, Hallett, 64–65, 116, 147, 149

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), 133–35

American Clipper
, 160–65

American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers), 118, 178–79, 226

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
(film), 135–36, 137, 138–39

anti-Communism, 363, 364

Arcadia conference (1942), 262

Asia
magazine, 149, 177–78

Austerland, Shirlee, 53, 58, 78, 93, 110–11, 120–21, 156

Australia sojourn, 328–38

    
arrival, 328–31

    
fall of Bataan and, 334–36

    
MJ's Darwin trip planning, 339–44

    
reporting, 332–34, 337

Bai Chongxi (Pai Chung-hsi), 26

Barnett, Eugene E., 145

Barnett, Robert, 359

Bataan Death March, 335

Bataan Peninsula, 5–6

    
air defense, 270–71

    
surrender of, 334–35

    
U.S. troops removal to, 5–6, 8, 236, 241, 259–61

“The Battling Bastards of Bataan” (Hewlett), 278

Bean, Nancy, 365

Belden, Jack, 80

Bellaire, Robert, 104, 107, 110, 111, 112

Blaine, James G., 145

Blind Date with Mars
(Moats), 115

Brett, Lt. Gen. George, 339

Brines, Russell, 221–22

Buck, Pearl, 145, 157–58, 361

Bulkeley, Lt. John D., 288, 326

Bullitt, William C., 145

Burgess, R. Louis, 134–35

Bush, Chilton, 55, 56, 119, 127, 364

Buss, Claude, 237

Byrd, Maj. Cornelius, 304, 306, 313, 315

Canton, 24

Canuto, Joaquin, 231

Carlson, Evans, 153

Carson, Lew, 308

arrival in Australia, 329

Cebu sojourn, 302, 305, 306, 307, 308

Doña Nati
escape, 313, 315

Princesa de Cebu
escape, 287, 299–300

Carter, Jack, 30–31

Casey, Gen. Hugh, 242

Catholic Church, 258

Caulfield, Harry, 35–36, 40–41, 43, 48, 148

CBS, 119

Cebu, 279–80, 282

Cebu sojourn, 300–313

Cebu environment, 303–4, 306–7

defenses, 305, 307

escape plans, 309, 312–13

Japanese attack, 305–6

MJ-AWJ relationship during, 307–9

personal radio messages, 300–301, 302–3, 309

photographs of, 308

reporting, 309–11

“This Is Our Battle” book manuscript work, 310

See also Doña Nati
escape censorship.
See
wartime press conditions

Cerf, Bennett, 332

Chambers, Whittaker, 363

Chang, T. K., 71, 72

Chang Hsueh-liang (Zhang Xueliang), 28–29

Chan Ka Yik, 25–26, 30–33, 34–35, 50, 51, 53–54

Chiang, Madame.
See
Soong, Mayling

Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)

air raid shelter disaster (June 1941) and, 174

AWJ's United China Relief work and, 201

censorship and, 180–81

Chungking capital move, 76

Keller on, 49

Luce's support for, 364

Marco Polo Bridge incident, 39

Pai Chung-hsi and, 26

Sian incident, 28–29, 31, 36, 37

Sino-Japanese negotiations (1937), 43–44

Wilkie invitation, 152

See also
Kuomintang

China Clipper
, 58, 161

China Press
, 65

China Week, 151–52.
See also
United China Relief

Ching, George (Ching Ta-Min), 25–26, 33, 51, 53, 60

Ching, Teddy, 158

Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai), 76, 182

Christian Science, 15, 129, 272

Chungking

air raid shelter disaster (June 1941), 170–76

AWJ sojourn (1943), 362–63

photos of, 75, 85, 91

reunion visit (1985), 366–67

See also
MJ's Chungking sojourn (1941); MJ's Chungking Voice of China job (1940)

Churchill, Mike, 139

Churchill, Winston, 262

Click
magazine, 149, 161

Clipper
planes, 58, 151, 160–65, 215

Close, Winton “Whimp” Ralph, 18–19, 53

Cole, Peggy, 1–2, 370–73

Communist Chinese

anti-Communism and, 364

Chou En-lai editorial, 182

Kuomintang tensions with, 166–67, 181–82

Long March, 28

New Fourth Army incident, 166–67, 181

Sian incident and, 28–29, 31, 36, 37

Soong sisters and, 88

United China Relief and, 144, 152

United Front, 29, 39, 166, 167

See also
Sino-Japanese War

Corregidor

fall of, 343

MacArthur evacuation from, 281–82, 284, 326

U.S. troops removal to, 5–6, 8, 236, 238, 241, 242–43, 255–56, 259–61

See also
Corregidor sojourn

“Corregidor Cable No. 79” (Jacoby), 311

Corregidor sojourn, 262–70, 271–79

arrival, 255, 256–61

AWJ's experience, 268–69

Corregidor environment, 255–56, 258–61, 265–66, 267–68, 276–78

escape plans, 279–80, 282–85

“Europe First” strategy and, 261–62, 279, 280–81

MJ-AWJ collaborations, 264–65, 275

MJ-AWJ relationship during, 271–73

personal radio messages, 273–74

press conditions, 263–64, 279

reporting from, 262–63, 271, 274–76, 278–79, 311

Romulo friendship, 266–67

U.S. reinforcement hopes, 262, 267, 270, 271, 279

See also Princesa de Cebu
escape

Cox, James, 64

Crowther, Bosley, 139

Dale, Lt. Jack, 346

Deane, Hugh, 25, 26, 27, 79, 80, 367

Decoux, Adm. Jean, 105, 107, 108, 110

Dee Chuan Lumber Company, 240–41, 244

de Lisle, Daniel Armand, 115, 116

DeMille, Cecil B., 13–14

Diller, Lt. Col. LeGrande “Pick”, 224–25, 257, 260, 284–85, 331, 341

Disney, Walt, 160

Donald, W. H., 94

Doña Nati
escape, 312–27

arrival in Australia, 326–27, 328–29

home worries, 322, 325–26

leaving Cebu, 314–18

Lexington
encounter, 322–23

open ocean environment, 319–20

plans for, 312–14

“This Is Our Battle” book manuscript work, 323–24

See also
Australia sojourn

Dong Xianguang.
See
Tong, Hollington “Holly”

Douglas Airview
magazine, 357

Dunn, William J., 209, 214, 241, 331

Durdin, Peggy, 80, 81, 140, 331, 342, 366–67

Durdin, Tillman, 63, 80, 140, 180, 187, 242, 331, 366–67

East-West Association, 361, 362

Epstein, Israel, 80

escape from the Philippines

La Florecita
escape to Corregidor, 244, 249–51, 255–57

Manila escape plans, 5, 6–9, 235, 237–38, 239–46

Manila press community Christmas celebrations, 235

preparations to leave Manila, 246–49

publicity for, 328–29, 336, 337, 338

See also
Cebu sojourn; Corregidor sojourn;
Doña Nati
escape;
Princesa de Cebu
escape

“Europe First” strategy, 225–26, 234, 261–62, 280–81

Fadiman, Anne (AWJ's daughter), 133, 268–69, 272, 351, 362, 363, 368

Fadiman, Clifton (AWJ's second husband), 365–66, 367, 368

Field Artillery Journal
, 264

Fisher, F. McCracken “Mac”, 45

Fisher, Mac, 174

Fitch, Kempton, 37

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 137

La Florecita
escape to Corregidor, 244, 249–51, 255–57

Floyd, Nat, 246, 278

Flying Tigers (American Volunteer Group), 118, 178–79, 226

Foley, Walter Brooks, 218–19

Foreign Correspondents Club of China, 181

French, Paul, 64

Fumimaro, Konoye, 44

Gabell, Phyllis, 163

Gable, Clark, 358

Ganap Party, 258

Garside, B. A., 144–45

Gates, Artemus L., 145

George, Brig. Gen. Harold H. “Pursuit Hal”, 270, 338, 339–40, 346, 347

Gibson, Charles Dana, 5

Gibson, E. Kay, 5

Golden Gate International Exhibition (1939-1940), 58–59, 60

The Good Earth
(Buck), 145, 157–58

Gould, Randall, 61, 64, 68, 79, 81, 82, 116, 152

Graham, Betty, 81

Graham, David Crockett, 198, 199

Great Depression, 39, 128, 133–35

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 105, 258

Grew, Joseph, 115

Guillumette, Paul, 147

Haas, Robert, 332

Hahn, Emily, 118

Hahn, Mickie, 164

Haiphong incident (1940), 8, 112–16, 141

Hanoi, 102–5.
See also
Indochina

Hastings, William, 244, 250, 251, 256

Held, Alacia, 72, 169

Hemlock Society, 367

Hersey, John, 147–48, 151, 157, 208

Hewlett, Frank, 246, 278, 342

Hindson, Curtis, 246, 278

Hoffman, Paul G., 145

Hollywood

AMJ's career, 135–39, 155, 190–91

MJ's origins in, 13–15

United China Relief support, 157–58, 159–60

Hong Kong, 70–71, 117–18, 206–7, 208

Hong Xiuqian, 26

Honky Tonk
(film), 139, 190

Hook, Second Lt. William, 344–45

Huff, Lt. Col. Sidney, 225, 284–85, 331, 341

Hughes, Mrs. James E., 145

Hulburd, David, 218, 274, 300, 309, 322, 325–26, 328, 356.
See also Time
magazine

Hull, Cordell, 43, 274

Ind, Col. Allison, 339, 344, 345, 348

Indochina, 98

Japanese occupation, 103–4, 105, 108–9, 110, 112–15

Kunming-Haiphong railway attacks, 98–99

MJ's trip to (1940), 100–105

See also
MJ's United Press job (Indochina)

Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR), 59, 60, 119, 143

International House project (Stanford University), 52–53

Jacoby, Annalee Whitmore (AWJ), 7

Agricultural Adjustment

Administration job, 133–35

appearance, 131

Arizona State University conference (1982), 366

Captiva residence, 367

Chungking arrival (1941), 194–98

Chungking reunion visit (1985), 366–67

death of, 367–68

early journalism career, 129–31, 132, 133–35

early life, 128–29

engagement to MJ, 202–6, 207–8, 213–15

gender breakthroughs of, 129, 132–33

Hollywood career, 135–41, 155, 190–91

idiosyncratic shorthand of, 137

Japanese approach to Manila, 7–9

MJ's death and, 349–50, 351, 352, 353–59

MJ's reconnection with, 127–28, 141–42, 155–58

MJ correspondence (1941), 189, 191–92

photographic memory of, 130, 136–37, 310

photographs of, 220

photography by, 275, 335

relationship with Elza Meyberg, 354, 356–57, 358–59

relationship with MJ, 221, 271–73, 307–9, 368

Shinno family and, 361–62

Thunder Out of China
, 363–64, 365

Time
magazine correspondent job (1943), 362–63

travel to China (1941), 192–95

United China Relief job (Chungking, 1941), 192, 199–200, 201–2

university years, 20, 127, 129–33, 134

wedding, 8, 218–21

See also
Philippines invasion threat (1941)

Jacoby, Elza Stern.
See
Meyberg, Elza Stern Jacoby

Jacoby, Melville (MJ's father), 14, 15

Jacoby, Melville Jack (MJ)

appearance, 18

artifacts of, 1–3, 310, 370–73

aviation training, 30, 346

AWJ's reconnection with, 127–28, 141–42, 155–58

Bay Area visit (1942), 126–27

Chichibu Maru
voyage (1937), 49–50

childhood writing, 17

China travels (1937), 35–38, 40–41, 42–46

death of, 344–48, 349–55, 371, 372

early journalism career, 20, 27–28, 45, 51–52, 54–58, 59–60

early life, 14–18

engagement to AWJ, 202–6, 207–8, 213–15

film interests, 45, 46

grand tour, 21–22

Japanese approach to Manila, 7–9

Japan travels (1937), 47–48

job search (1941), 146–51, 158

military draft and, 110, 149, 154, 157, 261, 326, 337

NBC radio stringer job (1941), 150, 151, 168, 186, 212

photographs of, 2, 16, 46, 79, 93, 185, 220

relationship with AWJ, 221, 271–73, 307–9, 368

return to the United States (1942), 119–22

Shanghai sojourn (1939), 61–67

Stanford master's studies, 54–58, 59

Time
magazine correspondent job (1941), 168, 176, 177

“Tony Tramp” nickname, 19

travel bug, 49–50

university years, 18–20, 51–54

wedding, 8, 218–21

See also headings beginning with
MJ

Japanese-American internment, 361, 362

Jasper, Lt. Robert, 347

Jiang Jieshi.
See
Chiang Kai-shek

Johnson, Capt. Alexander, 313

Johnson, Eugene, 48, 148

Judah, Chet, 244, 250, 251, 256

Kawânanakoa, Lydia Liliuokalani, 217

Keller, Helen, 49–50

Killery, Valentine, 162–63

King, Maj. Gen. Edward P., 334

Kirkland, Wallace, 355

Kline, John, 21

Korea, 47

Kreiner, Charles, 175–76

Kung, H. H., 79, 87, 196, 198.
See also
Soong, Ay-ling

Kunming-Haiphong railway attacks (1940), 98–99

Kuomintang