Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Chamberlain called it "the first real book-length introduction to what war can mean to a peace-loving people." Lewis Gannett said its pages are "the most graphic, factual, frightened and frightening picture of frontline battle I have yet seen in print." Joseph Henry Jackson of the San Francisco Chronicle found it "one of the most truthful accounts of action in this war-and one of the most vivid pieces of writing on record." "About as near as you can get, in an armchair, to being in the midst of battle," said The Nation. And Foster Hailey wrote...
...Happened. In every big battle, soldiers are killed by their own men (example: Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville). Such losses in varying percentages, must be reckoned in the cost of war (though military men are reluctant to admit the public to the reckoning). In Sicily the abnormally high losses obviously were the result in large part of command. Commanders had delayed in notifying ships and soldiers that friendly aircraft were expected. Once the misdirected fire had been begun, trigger-happy gunners became so infected they continued shooting even after their officers had shouted: "Cease firing...
...years ago first novels, with rare exceptions like Gone With the Wind, sold about 2,000 copies. Publishers considered 5,000 copies all they could risk on a first novel, used to brag in their ads if any first novel topped that figure. Now first novels like Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend and John Hersey's A Bell For Adano have both sold nearly 35,000 copies. Most publishers, by tacit agreement, have stopped using sales figures in advertising because, with the Government stressing the paper shortage, big printings might be misunderstood...
...held two other public offices. In 1938 he sang his way into a job as Shreveport's Commissioner of Public Safety. In 1942 he strummed his way into a post on the State Public Service Commission. A "shouting Baptist," he was born in northern Louisiana's hilly Jackson Parish, one of eleven children of a cotton farmer. His grandfather had a local reputation as a buck-&-wing artist. Jimmie planned to be a teacher. He graduated from Beech Springs Consolidated School in a class of three and attended a New Orleans business college. Later...
...Andrew Jackson May, House Military Affairs Committee chairman, claimed credit for this military triumph. His Kentucky blood had been roused by a statement in the pamphlet based on World War I Army intelligence-test figures. These showed that Negroes from New York. Illinois and Ohio (with better schooling and economic luck) got higher intelligence scores than whites from Mississippi, Arkansas and Kentucky...