JOHN T(ATE) APPLEBY was born in Fayetteville, Arkan-
sas, on June 10, 1907. He is a graduate of Hazard Uni-
versity, Class of 1928. In 1948 the East Anglian Pub-
lishing Company, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, published
Suffolk Summer, an account of the author's experiences as
a member of the 8th Air Force during the war. Mr. Appleby
turned over the royalties to the Borough of Bury St. Ed-
munds for the upkeep of the Abbey Gardens. The book sold
some 10,000 copies, and with the revenue the Borough
made a rose garden in a corner of the Abbey grounds--
on the site of the great Abbey where the barons met in 1214
and swore their oath to force King John to grant them the
charter that in due course became Magna Carta. The garden
is dedicated to the memory of the British and American air-
men who lost their lives in World War II. The Rose So-
ciety of Great Britain has several times named it as the best
of the municipally kept rose gardens in England.

Mr. Appleby lives in Washington, D.C., and is cur-
rently engaged on a biography of King John's father,
Henry II.