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...insurance agent, he was named after his mother, who bore the unusual name of John Clifford Hodges II (her family, vexed that she was not a boy, named her after her father, a captain in the Confederate Army). He graduated from West Point with George Patton and Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers in the class of 1909. As an Army engineer Lee served in the Philippines, built dams on the Ohio River, was aide to Major General Leonard Wood...
Tall, nervous Sandy Patch had plenty of good news to report when his boss, U.S. Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers, dropped in for a visit. Said Patch in a proud order of the day: "We have achieved a great initial victory. The enemy in our area is perplexed and stunned. ... I therefore call on every officer and every man, regardless of fatigue or possible shortage of food and equipment, for uninterrupted continuation of their maximum energy and endurance so that the enemy may not have time to recover. . . . The opportunity for a decisive result is in front...
...John Jacob Astor III, pear-shaped prince of the idle rich, drove down a Manhattan street in a brand-new Rolls-Royce, smacked into a jaywalking 17-year-old boy, was hustled off to a police station, where he borrowed two nickels to make phone calls, was freed and cleared after two hours of questioning, left in another brand new Rolls-Royce which he had summoned with one of the borrowed nickels...
Story of a Story of a Story. The Joseph books almost require a second reading. Readers will be likely to enjoy this big book only when they have looked back upon the immense pattern of the story, the array of characters-Joseph himself, his father, Jacob, his brothers, the scribes and stewards of Egypt, the courtly eunuch Potiphar, his sexually frustrated wife, the two dwarfs (in whom Mann personifies the principles of ineffectual goodness and potent evil), Pharaoh, the sermons of the bald-pated Egyptian priests, the astronomy, history, architecture, concepts of life & death-and the similarities and differences...
...well of the past is deep, but, when they have finished the two great characterizations of Joseph the Provider-Old Jacob, and the brilliant, unstable Pharaoh, Amenhotep IV, better known as Ikhnaton, the great liberalizer of Egyptian religion and art, one of the precursors of Christianity, most readers will feel that Mann has made the past's deep waters, at least for a dizzying way down, crystal clear...