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...Asiatic mainland, the land left to the Japanese is a tight cluster of some 500 islands, mostly little ones bunched around and between the four "home islands" (see map). G.I. pronunciation of the strange, sibilant place names will produce a fascinating argot (Commodore Perry's men called Hokkaido "Hack-yer-daddy...
...Navy was first to hack away. Before the Jap surrender offer had become poop-deck patter, it stopped construction of 95 ships, canceling contracts totaling $1.200,000,000. Halted in various stages of construction were the 45,000-ton battleship Illinois, the 27,100-ton carriers Iwo Jima and Reprisal, 20 heavy and light cruisers. (Still abuilding were 167 Navy ships, including one battleship, eleven aircraft carriers; still unanswered: what to do with the partly built battle hulls...
...Passos, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Wolfe). But the bulk of The Crack-Up consists of selections from Fitzgerald's own essays, stories, notebooks and letters, including the famed scarifying confession (published in Esquire in 1936) in which Fitzgerald explained his decline from high-ranking novelist to Hollywood hack. The result is an extraordinary character-study, wholly free from reticence or whitewash. Readers who hope to recapture the lilt and flame of flapper days will find themselves staring at the clogged ash trays and unwashed glasses of the morning after...
...Grub Street Hack. Elizabeth was a heroine, but not for long. In Grub Street a hack named Dr. John Hill, who combined the practice of medicine with the writing of plays and a column in the London Daily Advertiser ("His farces are Physic, his Physic a Farce is," said Actor David Garrick), went and talked with Virtue Hall. Under pressure she admitted that her evidence at the Old Bailey had been false from beginning to end. In the penny press, the taverns and gaming houses, the case was reopened. Londoners divided themselves into Canningites and Egyptians...
...crony, Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, to sit with the Cabinet, because of McKellar's position as Senate president pro tern. It was commended in some quarters as a further presidential gesture of friendliness to Congress. But others saw it differently. Cried the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "A hack sits in the Cabinet . . . Senator McKellar is a vindictive peanut politician ... a grudge-bearing politician with an incurable itch for spoils. . . . President Truman is too big and busy a man to have to waste his time listening to this shoddy impresario of the patronage grab...