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...should not strike back militarily, he said, adding, "The strongest arm of response is the moral one, one of outrage." Then should the matter be brought before the United Nations? Replied Jackson: "I would rather call a prayer meeting." Afterward Jackson, 71, went back to his wife Helen in Everett (pop. 54,400), the lumbermill town north of Seattle where he was born and raised. And where, a few hours after he got home, he suffered a heart attack and died...
...death surprised those who knew him. Jackson was fit and industrious, and never smoked. He had no history of heart trouble, and lived prudently. The habit of prudence was bred by his parents, Norwegian immigrants. Nicknamed Scoop after a comic-strip character who appeared in the Everett Herald (which he delivered for years), Jackson practiced frankness young: in the third grade, asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he admitted he wanted Warren G.Harding...
...started at the University of Washington as the Depression began and returned to Everett with a law degree, taking a job with the new Federal Emergency Relief Administration. But his notions of public service were more ambitious. At 26, he was elected Snohomish County prosecutor; then in 1940, a year after Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mr. Jackson was sent there for real, elected to the House. He caught the nation's eye by speaking out early on against the witch-hunting excesses of the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1952 Jackson won election to the Senate over...
Suder's predicament seems the stuff of sure-fire fiction, an unusual and interesting character struggling with mysterious demons. But after deftly establishing this premise, Rookie Author Percival L. Everett, 26, darts off in another direction entirely. Suder simply walks out on his wife, his team, Seattle. He buys a saxophone and tries to learn to play it like Charlie Parker. He hitches up with an older acquaintance who takes him on a boat ride across Puget Sound. The purpose of the trip turns out to be cocaine smuggling, and Suder manages to push his host overboard and sail...
...impossible to tell just how bananas Suder is supposed to be going; he is the only spokesman for his misadventures and he says he feels better and better. But along the way, Everett's novel develops a severe case of enforced sit-com wackiness. Jokes wag the tale; characters seem willing to do anything for a laugh track. -By Paul Gray