This accurate record could then be passed on so as to be seen, heard and felt by others "Journalism is education for me. In wartime, she said, you "operate on a basis of functional schizophrenia - you can't stand it for anybody else but yourself. I liked having no possessions, no problems, and you never knew if you were going to be alive the next day and that was immensely interesting."She saw the function of a reporter as one of seeing and hearing as much as possible. It was one of those moments in history when there was no doubt." She was in Spain with Ernest Hemingway, whose third wife she became in 1940; he dedicated For Whom the Bell Tolls to her in 1941. She rarely talked about her time with, and marriage to, Hemingway (they were divorced in 1946), quite rightly wanting to be her own person and not part of the Hemingway bandwagon. The house she built for them in Cuba became the Hemingway Museum. Although Gellhorn did not actively seek out war, her passion for causes and sense of outrage meant that she wrote about most of the wars which happened in her life.
MARTHA GELLHORN was one of the finest war correspondents of the 20th century. She learnt the craft of war reporting in the Spanish Civil War, and it was then that she grew up politically: "We knew, we just knew, that Spain was the place to stop Fascism," she said "This was it. Within months of arriving in Massachusetts, however, cancer of the oesophagus was diagnosed.Those who saw Bob Scribner in his last days will not forget the exemplary courage and clear-sightedness with which he faced the end. His iron will and intellectual clarity (underpinned by a quiet faith) never deserted him.
The single-mindedness with which he pursued his scholarly vocation - he was one of the hardest-working men his friends had ever known - at times placed strains upon his family, but it was matched by a wonderful openness and informality.He never set himself up as an authority, or expected to be treated with professorial reverence. Rather, he was a constant enquirer, eager to share his curiosity and enthusiasm That is why he was such a good teacher. He wrote, not to create tablets of stone, but to engage in dialogue, to be part of a process; just as he viewed the Reformation itself.Tom ScottRobert William Scribner, historian: born Sydney 6 September 1941; Lecturer, Portsmouth Polytechnic 1972-78; Lecturer, King's College London 1979-81; Lecturer, Cambridge University 1981-93, Reader in the Social History of Early Modern Europe 1993-96; Professor of Divinity, Harvard University 1996-98; married 1972 Robyn Dasey (marriage dissolved), 1989 Lois Rutherford (one son, one daughter); died Arlington, Massachusetts 29 January 1998.. That culminated in his promotion to Reader in 1993, having already been awarded a prestigious two-year research readership by the British Academy. But it was with his move to a chair in the Divinity School at Harvard in 1996 that at last the prospect beckoned of being freed from administrative chores and undergraduate teaching to concentrate on research and supervising more graduate students than had been possible at Cambridge.
