Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pearl River, N.Y. is only 22 miles from Times Square, but it is fully as quiet-or was until last week-as Moccasin, Mont., Husband, Pa., or Clam, Va. Last week, as everyone in Pearl River will remember ("You can say that again, Mac")-as everyone in Pearl River will remember, Frank Perkins, a peaceful, pippin-faced youth of 21, went crow-hunting along the brackish banks of the Hackensack River...
There has not been a better book written about soldiers. In recent years, I believe, there have been few better books written. Jones' saga of a Regular Army unit stationed in Hawaii in the months before Pearl Harbor is narrated with great humor and understandind, and with a degree of skill that is startling in a first novel...
...throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...
...lines of infantrymen shuffle up the road a few hundred yards ahead. Neatly hooked to the web harness he wore over his trench coat were a paratrooper's first-aid kit and the hand grenade that has become as famous a trademark as George Patton's pearl-handled pistols...
...destined to survive all of China's conflicts, however close they came. It survived, the Peking battles of the war lords, the capture of the city by Chiang Kai-shek (who quickly gave Yenching his blessing). Until 1941, even the Japanese kept their distance. Then, the day after Pearl Harbor, the conquerors took over and imprisoned President Stuart for 3½ years. Some students and professors managed to escape, walked 1,000 miles to westward, and opened the university again in Chengtu...