Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Asked to describe his duties, he says: "Right now I'm a short-order cook. You want some French fries, I'll give you some French fries. I'm not sitting here making great decisions." That is pure Jordan, or "Jerden," as the name is pronounced down home. To all appearances, he is the good ole boy come to Washington: joshing, tieless, rumpled, feet on desk, a thick scallop of hair falling across an unlined, apple-cheeked face that is as unrevealing of emotion as a painted Easter egg. Operating only 50 steps from the Oval Office...
Goals: B.U. 1; Silk (John McLellan), 1:03. Harvard 1; Gene Purdy (George Hughes, Bryan Cook), 9:22. B.U. 2; Mike Eruzione (Dick Lamby, Silk), 11:08. Harvard 2; Jack Hughes (G. Hughes, Purdy), 12:13. Harvard 3; Bill Horton (Bill Hozack...
...Writing Cook. Because Roots is a black family reunion of sorts, Haley sees some distinct differences in why whites and blacks are so attracted by it. Discounting speculation that his work would unleash black rage, Haley says, "I've not heard one murmur of radicalization from blacks. I have heard ebullience and happiness that the story has been told. The blacks who are buying books are not buying them to go out and fight someone, but because they want to know who they are. Roots is all of our stories. It's the same for me or any black...
...never thought of being a writer, but I wrote lots and lots of letters. And crew members began to come to me for help in writing love letters. I got pretty good at this, and before long it kinda got to be I didn't have to cook any more. I just wrote love letters." While copying passages from a book (he cannot remember which one), "I felt for the first time what good professional writing feels like. I got the yen to see if I couldn't do the same thing...
Haley collected hundreds of rejection slips before he finally sold his first piece to This Week, a syndicated Sunday supplement. Before long he was known as "the cook who writes," and by the time he retired from the Coast Guard in 1959 at the age of 37, he had attained the rank of chief journalist. Though he had served for 20 years, he received no pension checks?those went to one of his two former wives...