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...briefing at Pearl Harbor. But his wife brought new grace and style to his life, though he still wears undistinguished suits and black wingtip shoes, and drives a 1961 Chevrolet. The Jacksons own two houses, one in Washington's fashionable Spring Valley, the other a large house in Everett that was once the home of a banker who was the richest and most powerful man in town when Jackson was a boy-a bit of symbolism much appreciated by the Senator's friends. But Jackson's family still lives relatively modestly, its only income being Jackson...
...forces that shaped Jackson included the prolabor, internationalist traditions of Washington State, and his close-knit family. Born May 31, 1912, he was the youngest of four children in a working-class family in Everett, a small mill town 28 miles north of Seattle. His Lutheran parents had emigrated from Norway in the 1880s; Father Peter was a cement worker, Mother Marie was a stern but loving matriarch who infused in her son a strong sense of right and wrong...
Delivery Boy. As a boy, Jackson was a poor athlete, an avid Boy Scout and a skillful debater. At 13, he won a prize from the Everett Herald for diligence as a newspaper delivery boy. Its comic page chronicled the adventures of a newspaper reporter named Scoop, who was the inspiration for Jackson's nickname. His newspaper route included Everett's red-light district, where Jackson was appalled to find prominent men patronizing whorehouses, gambling dens and speakeasies. Indeed, in his commencement speech at his high school graduation in 1930, Jackson primly lectured his audience about the evils...
After working his way through the University of Washington, where he graduated barely in the top third of his law school class in 1935, Jackson returned to Everett to practice law. He also became active in local politics and soon seized control of Everett's Young Democrats organization, using it in 1938 as a base to run for Snohomish County prosecutor, soundly beating the alcoholic incumbent. Two years later, after earning the nickname "Soda Pop" Jackson and a reputation as an aggressively moralistic prosecutor for running the gamblers, madams and bootleggers out of the county, Jackson easily won election...
...languishing retail-garment trade, recently took his wife for a week at the Club Mediterranee in Martinique-a trip that set them back $1,400. Now they have paid for a return visit to the same resort in March. When Harry Lack, a district court judge in Everett, Mass., and his wife decided to take a golfing trip to Paradise Island, Bahamas, they could have saved $280 by booking into a charter flight and considerably more cash by staying at one of the island's pleasant smaller hotels. Instead, they flew first class and booked into the pricey Britannia...