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CHAPTER NINE {1941–1943}
115 “shopping in Frenchtown”: JC to Herbst, Oct. 24, 1942, Yale.
115 “spilling martinis all over the Brevoort”: JC to Herbst [c. spring 1942], Yale.
117 “an inability to draw … lives together”: JC to Herbst [c. Oct. 1954], Yale.
117 “slipped out of the heavy-drinking set”: LJC, 65.
117 “keep [him] in mind”: JC to Cowley Jan. 3, 1942, Newberry.
117 “All I know about war”: LJC, 67.
117 “Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye”: JC, “Goodbye, Broadway—Hello, Hello,” WSPL, 224-27.
118 Fort Dix was “like a Boy's Camp”: JC to Lobrano [c. May 1942], NYPL-MSS.
118 “razor-back hogs, grits, thin-bloodedness”: JC to Herbst [c. 1954?], Yale.
118 “The food is very good”: JC to MC [c. May 1942], Morgan.
118 “Our sergeant is a strange and interesting man”: LJC, 70.
118 “five poisonous gases without [their] masks”: ibid., 72.
119 “an ex-smoke eater named Smoko”: ibid., 82.
119 “an old ex-prostitute or ex-actress”: JC to MC [c. June 1942], Morgan.
119 “[M]ail call is the high point”: JC to Lobrano [c. May 1942], NYPL-MSS.
119 “I too have slept with someone else's boot”: LJC, 83.
119 “Don't bother to answer them”: Ibid., 75.
119 “Another grand morning”: FLC Sr. to JC and family, Nov. 7, 1943, CFP.
120 “having a lot of trouble with negros”: JC to MC [c. Aug. 1942], Morgan.
120 “with his fatigue hat pulled down”: JC to MC [c. July 1942], Morgan.
120 “his face sewed up and a pair of dark glasses”: LJC, 79.
120 “I have a nomination of a writer”: Harold Ross to Lt. Col. Egbert White, May 12, 1942, NYPL-MSS.
120 “but Dear Jesus I hope and pray”: LJC, 75.
121 “[Yank] simply got over-manned”: Ross to Irwin Shaw, Oct. 1, 1942, NYPL-MSS.
121 “The barracks are white clapboard”: JC to WM, Aug. 16, 1942, Berg.
121 “I have never seen such poverty”: JC to Ames [c. fall 1942], NYPL-MSS.
121 “homesick for Camp Croft and Sergeant Durham”: LJC, 77.
121 “southern boys who run around”: ibid., 82.
121 “the voluminous correspondence”: ibid., 84.
121 “When the conductor shouted ‘Columbia’ “: JC to MC [c. Nov. 1942?], Morgan.
121 “Ain't that pretty?”: LJC, 91.
122 “the first electrocution in the family”: author int. Elizabeth Collins, April 22, 2004.
122 “[We] went to a dance at the Eagle Club”: JC to MC [c. Nov. 1942?], Morgan.
122 “[O]h Christ what fun”: JC to Herbst, Oct. 24, 1942, Yale.
123 “Just a line to tell you”: Bennett Cerf to JC, Oct. 2, 1942, Columbia.
123 “a fact that impresses no one”: JC to Cerf, Oct. 15, 1942, Columbia.
123 “I have my schedule down now”: JC to MC [c. Oct. 1942], Morgan.
123 “Gordon brought the gun up to the salute”: JC, “The Man Who Was Very Homesick for New York,” WSPL, 248-57.
123 Lobrano thought … “really first-rate”: Lobrano to JC, Oct. 23, 1942, NYPL-MSS.
123 “There was a nervous, little letter”: JC to MC [c. Oct. 1942], Morgan.
124 “You'll appreciate his training”: JC, “Sergeant Limeburner,” New Yorker, March 13, 1943, 19-25.
124 “[The captain] was an odd-looking man”: JC, “The Invisible Ship,” New Yorker, Aug. 7, 1943, 17-21.
124 “[H]e has an up-turned nose”: LJC, 92.
124 “I feel like a dope”: ibid., 86.
125 “Three stripes,” wrote his father: FLC Sr. to JC and family, Nov. 14, 1943, CFP.
125 “that the women in Africa”: JC to “Gus or Bill,” Jan. 9, 1943, NYPL-MSS.
125 “On Lincoln's Birthday”: JC to Lobrano, Feb. 14, 1943, NYPL-MSS. 125 “I don't know how the Major will take it”: LJC, 95.
125 “a special fire issue”: ibid., 96.
125 “My family settled in Salem in 1632”: JC to Cerf [c. Feb. 1943], Columbia.
126 “I know you have no more illusions”: Cerf to JC, Oct. 19, 1942, Columbia.
126-127 Reviews of The Way Some People Live: Rose Feld, in New York Herald Tribune Book Review, March 14, 1943, 12; William DuBois, in New York Times Book Review, March 28, 1943, 10; Weldon Kees, in New Republic, April 19, 1943, 516-17; Struthers Burt, in Saturday Review of Literature, April 24, 1943, 9.
127 “[A]ll in all—even though