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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.
A Twist of Sand is a literate, imaginative first novel in the tradition of high and original adventure". After the war Jenkins settled in Rhodesia, where he met his wife, author Eve Palmer (1916–1998). They married on 17 March 1950. [2] They had a son named David (born c. 1953). [3]
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 .
Jungle Book: Nominated 1943 James Basevi The Gang's All Here: Nominated Shared with Joseph C. Wright and Thomas Little. The Song of Bernadette: Won Shared with William S. Darling and Thomas Little. 1945 Hans Peters: The Picture of Dorian Gray: Nominated Shared with Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B. Willis, John Bonar, and Hugh Hunt. 1946 John Bryan ...
Sand Hollow Reservoir is a reservoir located at Sand Hollow State Park in Washington County, Utah, United States. [3] The lake opened to the public in 2003 making it the newest lake in Utah. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
The Sand Hollow Wash Bridge near Littlefield, Arizona, United States, is a historic Warren deck truss bridge built in 1929. It brought the old U.S. Route 91 (US 91) over Sand Hollow Wash. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
or the increasingly popular membrane technology that is mercury free and more energy-efficient. Worldwide there are approximately fifty mercury cell chlor-alkali plants in operation [1]. Of those there are eight in the United States (US) [2]. In 2003 the EPA reported in the Federal Register that on average approximately seven tons of mercury
John Hassel's illustration for the early editions of Wee Macgreegor.. Wee Macgreegor (properly called Macgregor Robinson and sometimes spelt "Wee Macgregor") is a character created in newspaper short stories and books written by the Scottish journalist and author, John Joy Bell, first appearing in the Glasgow Evening Times in 1901.