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Richard Milton McKenna (May 9, 1913 – November 1, 1964) was an American sailor and novelist. He was best known for his historical novel The Sand Pebbles , which tells the story of an American sailor serving aboard a gunboat on the Chinese Yangtze River in 1925.
The Sand Pebbles is a 1962 novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in 1926. It was the winner of the 1963 Harper Prize for fiction. The book was initially serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, and was published in January 1963 by Harper & Row.
"The Secret Place" was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1967. It won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1967, and was included in Nebula Award Stories Two; [2] in the introduction to the story, the editors wrote: "It is a sensitive piece of writing, a perfect example of second generation science fiction, the retelling and reexamination of a theme that originated in ...
The film stars Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, and Candice Bergen, and features Marayat Andriane, Mako, and Larry Gates in supporting roles. Robert Anderson adapted the screenplay from the 1962 novel of the same name by Richard McKenna. The Sand Pebbles was a critical and commercial success during its general release.
Allstate CEO strikes the wrong tone. Good morning. Allstate CEO Tom Wilson got criticism last week when he issued a video message prior to the broadcast of the Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, ...
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Allstate's slogan "You're in good hands" was created in the 1950s by Allstate Insurance Company's sales executive, Davis W. Ellis, based on a similar phrase he used to reassure his wife about a doctor caring for their child. It has been the slogan ever since 1950. [7] Allstate also refer to themselves as the "Good Hands People".
Hundreds of federal workers process thousands of retirement applications every month, by hand in a converted former mine.