Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CONTINENT'S END-edifed by Joseph Henry Jackson-Whittlesey House...
...Pacific Coast, the word of Joseph Henry Jackson* is literary law. Eastern publishers quote his reviews, publish almost any manuscript he recommends. This year his influence has swept over the Sierras with even more spectacular results than usual. Two current bestsellers are books that he plugged before publication. Joseph Pennell's turgid History of Rome Hanks (to date: 93,000 copies), and Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber† (400,000 copies...
Maker & Breaker. Critic Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle book reviewer, has been a West Coast literary authority for 20 years. Now 50, he was born in New Jersey, studied at Lafayette, was a lieutenant in World War I. He got into advertising in California after the war, was editor of Sunset Magazine for eight years. In 1924 he began a weekly half- hour broadcast on books over San Francisco's station KGO which was steadily popular until he quit...
...Rudolph Altrocchi's Sleuthing in the Stacks and Alan Kapelner's Lonely Boy Blues, became sell-outs on the Coast. The San Francisco Grabhorn Press's de luxe edition of Joaquin Murrieta, The Brigand Chief of California was sold to the last copy the day after Jackson praised it over the air. When he panned such nationwide best-sellers as Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke and Lloyd Douglas' Home for Christmas, they ceased to sell on the Coast. (But Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends kept...
...salt a year, most of it in curing bacon. Humans were weakened through lack of salt in their diet, and Lee's horses suffered hoof and tongue diseases. Determinedly after the subject, Dr. Lonn spent five years studying the archives at Raleigh, Montgomery, Jackson, New Orleans, Atlanta...