Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sale and advertised in the New York Times was Glenfiddich, the famed, fabulous, 31,000-acre Banffshire estate of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, whose family once owned more than a quarter-million British acres. Inducements offered prospective bidders by Auctioneers Jackson Stops & Staff: moors that have yielded "over 5,000 brace of grouse and 100 stags; twelve miles of salmon fishing; 57 farms, house stances and cottages producing rent...
...bestselling, brilliant Age of Jackson (TIME, Oct. 22) was a likely contender for a Pulitzer Prize in history this year. And though Arthur Sr., 30 years older, has been a full professor of American history at Harvard since 1925, nobody would accuse Arthur Jr. of trading on his father's reputation...
...Jackson grew out of six Lowell lectures, given at Harvard when Arthur was 24. Schlesinger pounded out his first draft at 4,000-5,000 words a day, finished the book despite twins "tearing all over the place" or even "sitting on my lap." His wife, daughter of Harvard's late Physiologist Walter B. Cannon, wrote a children's book called Twins at Our House at the same time. They counted on its advance order of 6,000 copies to support his unprofitable studies-not dreaming that Jackson would sell 30,000 copies...
...kidnaped and murdered during the first attempt against Trotsky). But the assassin, allegedly an agent of the NKVD (Russian Secret Police), arrived in broad daylight, introduced to Trotsky's circle in the guise of a friend. One day as Trotsky sat reading a paper, this friend, Frank Jackson,*produced a small pickax (such as mountain climbers use), smashed Trotsky's skull and crunched into what a moment before had been one of the 20th Century's most exciting minds...
Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47--Elizabeth Ann Jackson...