Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Place Card. In Jackson, Miss., a theatergoer momentarily dropped out of a ticket line, wisely chalked a mark on a fellow standee's back to keep his place...
When his C-47 reached Kansas City, Monty confessed his astonishment over the local skyscrapers: "An amazing country, this America, you know." Local boosters in Montgomery, Ala., ("a city named after me") were equally delighted. "Stonewall Jackson, there's a man for you. That quick nipping backwards and forwards across the mountains; that resolution; that nerve...
...sometimes ICCASP's undergraduate enthusiasm is a little too much for politicos to bear. At a Jackson Day dinner in Los Angeles last spring, at which the Committee was set to shower its kisses on Henry Wallace, its favorite son, Henry was preceded on the speaker's program by Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Jerry Colonna, Burns & Allen, Edward G. Robinson, George Jessel, Mickey Rooney, Margaret O'Brien, Frank Sinatra and Bette Davis. So, by the time hapless Henry got up to talk...
...right. Next day, C.I.O. President Phil Murray sang out lustily because any controls had been dropped. Industry's top stentor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President William K. Jackson, yelled because any had been kept. Lesser fry-packers, cattle and grocery men, the pro-and anti-control press, etc.-broke out in a contagion of argument. Last of all, the consumer took up the battle with violent yes and no messages to the Board...
...Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...