Morris, Joe Alex, Sr., (1904-1990), Papers, 1926-1979 (C0229)
2 linear feet and 1 oversize volume
INTRODUCTION
The papers of Joe Alex Morris, Sr., a journalist and author from Lancaster, Missouri, include story drafts and notes, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper and magazine clippings.
DONOR INFORMATIOIN
The Joe Alex Morris, Sr. Papers were donated to the University of Missouri by Clare M. Peckham on October 8, 1998 (Accession No. 5764).
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Joe Alex Morris, Sr. was born in 1904 in Lancaster, Missouri. Growing up in Lancaster, he worked for the Lancaster Excelsior, a local newspaper owned and operated by his grandfather. Morris graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and began working at the United States Daily in 1925.
During the next five years Morris moved around the country and worked as a reporter for several different newspapers, including the Washington News, the Tulsa Tribune, and the Denver Morning Post. While in Tulsa he met and married Maxine Pooler.
In 1929 Morris joined the United Press in New York, where he eventually worked as the New York news editor, the Washington news editor, and the foreign editor. As foreign editor, a job that he began in 1938, he traveled throughout Europe prior to and during World War II. Morris spent several months in Vichy France, and in England during the blitz.
Following his time with the United Press, Morris worked, for a brief period, as foreign editor for the New York Herald Tribune and later as managing editor of Collier's magazine. While at Collier's he returned to Europe to cover post-war events, such as the entrance of U.S. troops into Berlin.
In 1950 Morris left Collier's to begin a career as a free-lance reporter, writing for magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and National Geographic. His articles covered political and theatrical personalities and travel.
Morris also wrote and co-authored several books after leaving Collier's. These books covered both non-fiction and fiction topics and included What a Year, 1929; Deadline Every Minute; The Birdwatcher; Nelson Rockefeller: A Biography; Those Rockefeller Brothers; Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg; and Dear Mr. President. He also assisted Eleanor Roosevelt in writing On My Own
and General Mark Clark in writing Calculated Risk.
Morris and his wife Maxine had two children, Clare Morris Peckham and Joe Alex Morris, Jr. Joe Alex Morris, Jr. was killed in 1979 while working as a reporter in the Middle East.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The Joe Alex Morris, Sr., Papers include story drafts and notes, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper and magazine clippings that primarily document Morris’s reporting career. The papers are arranged into three series: Articles, Books, and Miscellaneous.
The Articles series consists of two subseries: Notes and Drafts and Published Articles. The Notes and Drafts subseries contains notes for and drafts of stories written by Morris, as well as, in a few cases, some correspondence concerning the story’s publication. This subseries is arranged by story title. The Published Articles subseries includes issues of magazines in which Morris’s stories appear, loose clippings of miscellaneous articles, and a scrapbook kept by Morris containing clippings of his stories as well as articles about him.
The Books series comprises clippings of reviews of and correspondence concerning several of the books written or co-authored by Morris and is arranged alphabetically by book title.
The Miscellaneous series includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous family items arranged alphabetically by subject and type of material.
FOLDER LIST
| f. 1 | Borah, William Edgar |
| f. 2 | "Death Song" |
| f. 3 | Duke of Windsor |
| f. 4-13 | Eisenhower, Dwight David |
| f. 14-18 | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| f. 19 | Fiction |
| f. 20-25 | Froman, Jane |
| f. 26 | Gettysburg Reunion |
| f. 27 | "History Book Stuff" |
| f. 28 | "Laboratory Experiment" |
| f. 29 | "Reign of the Roosevelts" |
| f. 30 | "Solidarity--While the Good Jobs Last" |
| f. 31 | "Something to See" |
| f. 32 | "Time and Colonel Lindbergh" |
| f. 33 | Vichy, France |
| f. 34 | "Victory" |
| f. 35-44 | World War II |
| f. 45-51 | World War II--Lisbon |
| f. 52-53 | VACANT |
| f. 54 | Miscellaneous Articles |
| v. 1 | Scrapbook |
| f. 55 | The Bird Watcher/ Dear Mr. President |
| f. 56 | Deadline Every Minute |
| f. 57 | Nelson Rockefeller: A Biography |
| f. 58 | The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg |
| f. 59 | Biographical Materials |
| f. 60 | "Case History of a Saturday Evening Post Article" |
| f. 61 | Correspondence, n.d., 1941-1953 |
| f. 62 | Correspondence, 1958-1967 |
| f. 63 | Family |
| f. 64 | Illustrations |
| f. 65-67 | Photographs |
| f. 68 | Speeches |
| f. 69 | University of Missouri |
INDEX TERMS
These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.
- Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893-1971)
- American Federation of Labor
- Barbour, William E.
- Bevin, Ernest
- Books--Reviews
- Borah, William Edgar
- Braun, Eva
- Brownell, Herbert, Jr.
- Campaign funds, 1952
- Cartoons and caricatures--Political
- Civil War--Battle of Gettysburg, Reunion
- Collier's
- Colorado, Aspen
- Communism--Attitudes towards
- Communism--England
- Daugschat, Karl
- Dewey, Thomas E. (1902-1971)
- Dillinger, John (1903-1934)
- Douglas, Paul Howard (1892-1976)
- Dulles, John Foster (1888-1959)
- Edward, Prince of Wales
- Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)
- Eisenhower, Mamie Geneva Doud (1896-1979)
- Elections, 1954
- Farmer's Almanac
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Froman family
- Froman, Jane (1907-1980)
- Garroway, Dave
- Goering, Hermann (1893-1946)
- Hauptmann, Bruno Richard (1899-1936)
- Hindenburg
- Hitler, Adolph (1889-1945)
- Hoover, J. Edgar (1895-1972)
- Jenner, William E
- Journalism
- Journalism and politics
- Journalists
- Kaye, Danny (1913-1987)
- Laval, Pierre
- Lee, J. Bracken
- Lenox, Inc.
- Lewis, John L. (1880-1969)
- Lindbergh, Charles A. (1902-1974)
- Long, Huey P. (1893-1935)
- MacArthur, Douglas (1880-1964)
- McCann, Kenin
- McCarthy, Eugene J. (1916-2005)
- McMath, Sidney Sanders
- Mencken, H.L. (1880-1956)
- Middle East, 1970s
- Miller, Clyde
- Missouri--Politics and government, 1949
- Morris, Joe Alex, Jr.
- Morris, Joe Alex, Sr. (1904-1990)
- Morris, Maxine Pooler
- New Jersey, Trenton
- New Jersey, Trenton--Description and travel
- New Mexico, Los Alamos
- New Mexico, Los Alamos--Description and travel
- New Mexico, Taos
- New Mexico, Taos--Description and travel
- New York League for the Hard of Hearing
- Nixon, Richard (1913-1994)
- Peabody, Polly
- Petain, Henri Philippe
- Physically handicapped--Rehabilitation
- Political parties, 1950s
- Presidents--United States--Election--1952
- Punishment, Administration of
- Rockefeller Center
- Rockefeller family
- Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich (1908-1979)
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)
- Saggendorph, Robb
- Saturday Evening Post
- Scrapbooks
- Smith, Ira R.T.
- Stevenson, Adlai Ewing (1900-1965)
- Symington, Stuart (1901-1988)
- Tableware
- Taft, Robert A. (1889-1953)
- Transportation
- United Press International
- University of Missouri, School of Journalism
- University of Missouri--Student publications
- Vandenberg, Arthur H.
- Willkie, Wendell L. (1892-1944)
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns and battles
- World War, 1939-1945--Causes
- World War, 1939-1945--Censorship
- World War, 1939-1945--England
- World War, 1939-1945--Entertainment
- World War, 1939-1945--Food question
- World War, 1939-1945--France, Vichy
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany
- World War, 1939-1945--Greenland
- World War, 1939-1945--Journalism
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval Operations
- World War, 1939-1945--Nuremberg Trials
- World War, 1939-1945--Portugal, Lisbon
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda
- World War, 1939-1945--Rationing
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees
- World War, 1939-1945--Soldiers
- World War, 1939-1945--Transportation
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements
- World War, 1939-1945--United States Entry
- Yeatman, Thomas
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