A Tale of Two Journalists

No big deal. Just #meljack’s @time letterhead from the...

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:24:25 -0700

No big deal. Just #meljack’s @time letterhead from the Chungking (AKA #chongqing) press hostel in #china #journalism #wwii

71 years ago, today, a 25-year-old WWII “soldier of the press” died. He could have been a legend....

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:17:44 -0700

71 years ago, today, a 25-year-old WWII “soldier of the press” died. He could have been a legend....

Captain P.E. Saunders poses on the S.S. Melville Jacoby with the...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:46:00 -0700

Captain P.E. Saunders poses on the S.S. Melville Jacoby with the books, records, games and photos donated to the ship’s crew by Elza Meyberg, Melville Jacoby’s mother.

greatestgeneration: life: We are sad to report that Cal...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:56:50 -0700

greatestgeneration:

life:

We are sad to report that Cal Whipple, a former LIFE correspondent, died on March 17th at the age of 94. Whipple played a huge role in getting this groundbreaking photograph of three dead American soldiers published in LIFE magazine — a fight he took all the way to the White House.

The New York Times writes:

Mr. Whipple and his colleagues at Life believed that Mr. Strock’s photograph would provide a badly needed dose of reality for those on the home front who were growing complacent about the war effort. “I went from Army captain to major to colonel to general,” he recalled in a memoir written for his family, “until I wound up in the office of an assistant secretary of the Air Corps, who decided, ‘This has to go to the White House.’ ”

(via NYTimes)

(George Strock—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

More on this historic photo.

And #meljack was a philatelist. These #stamps were from the...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:34:23 -0700

And #meljack was a philatelist. These #stamps were from the nationalist government in #China.

My favorite entry. For its simplicity. #meljack #research

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:30:20 -0700

My favorite entry. For its simplicity. #meljack #research

Oh you know, just #meljack’s address book. No biggee.

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:24:22 -0700

Oh you know, just #meljack’s address book. No biggee.

Still get excited I get to look through boxes that say things...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:53:59 -0700

Still get excited I get to look through boxes that say things like this while I work on my book. #wwii #meljack #research #history

Not only is this not even the half of it, it’s not even the...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:24:00 -0800

Not only is this not even the half of it, it’s not even the quarter of it. #amwriting #nonfiction #research #meljack

Love.

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:03:44 -0800

Love.

The Knight Foundation

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:38:05 -0800

whopays: Report: $20,000 for an ‘excruciating’ speech, but ‘regretted’ it later.

"MacArthur’s headquarters were the grimmest place at dawn this morning when the war staff was aroused..."

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:40:05 -0800

““MacArthur’s headquarters were the grimmest place at dawn this morning when the war staff was...

Bombs fall on China’s capital during World War II. Among the...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:09:27 -0800

Bombs fall on China’s capital during World War II. Among the blasts, an American correspondent watches as a French diplomat’s fateful decision underscores dark news from Paris in “Monsieur Big-Hat,” a short story written by journalist Melville Jacoby during the war but not published until today.

Melville Jacoby was a writer and budding photographer, and so am...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:13:00 -0700

Melville Jacoby was a writer and budding photographer, and so am I. Here’s a taste of some of my photography.

Snippets of 16mm film shot in China in the 1930s and 1940s...

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:21:00 -0700

Snippets of 16mm film shot in China in the 1930s and 1940s reveal the young journalist, Melville Jacoby, while I read an excerpt of a moving letter he wrote to his mother in January, 1941.

Mel and Annalee Jacoby working together, possibly in their room...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:13:55 -0700

Mel and Annalee Jacoby working together, possibly in their room at the Bayview Hotel in Manila. The Jacobys stayed at the Bayview in late 1941 until they fled Manila in a dramatic escape at the start of direct U.S. involvement in World War II

chinarhyming: A few more examples of the great artwork...

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:52:20 -0700

chinarhyming:

A few more examples of the great artwork generated by the United China Relief organisation in the US - see today’s post http://www.chinarhyming.com/2012/10/22/united-china-relief-posters/

These are great finds. What’s more, Melville Jacoby’s wife, Annalee, worked for United China Relief when she first traveled to China. Mel used his connections with Hollington Tong and Madame Chiang to get Annalee the job, which made it possible for her to secure a passport to travel to China.

On the back flap of Amea Willoughby’s “I Was On...

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:59:48 -0700

On the back flap of Amea Willoughby’s “I Was On Corregidor.” #WWII #World War II #books

Such a short life. Such an amazing story.

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:59:13 -0700

Such a short life. Such an amazing story.

Not My Melville

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:01:47 -0700

Hey! I started another Tumblr for all the random things i run into that have the name Melville in...