Jeep Bibliography -- (information from Jonathan Lighter)

Wed Sep 22 02:39:03 UTC 2010

It seems clear that a comprehensive treatment of ³jeep² might be in order,
and as a very
preliminary step towards this goal I now forward an exchange of e-mails I
had
today with Jonathan Lighter (in reverse chronological order).  My thanks to
Jonathan for his helpfulness in this.

Gerald Cohen

From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:00:56 -0400
To: "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at mst.edu>
Subject: Re: Jeep Bibliography

Posting to the list would be fine.

I'm sure Mencken offers a brief discussion, though if it were significant
I'd have cited it.

Many of the HDAS cites will seem gratuitous to some, but I think they all
contribute something tangible to the entire picture.

I also suggest in the ety. note in HDAS that the cartoon Jeep's inarticulate
cry of "Jeep! Jeep!" may have been sugg. by the "Cheep! Cheep!" of cartoon
birds. Just a guess, of course.

Jon

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>
wrote:
> 
>   Thanks, Jon. I'd like to share your message below with the other ads-l
> members; I'm sure at least several will be interested in it.  Unless I hear
> from you to the contrary, I'll do so this evening.
> 
>   Also, maybe a comprehensive treatment of "jeep" based on your bibliographic
> references would be a possibility.  I don't have time for this myself at the
> moment, but perhaps I could find an interested student assistant who would
> like doing this as a semester task.
> 
> Best. --- Jerry
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Jonathan Lighter [mailto:wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tue 9/21/2010 10:12 AM
> To: Cohen, Gerald Leonard
> Subject: OT: Jeep Bibliography
> 
> Jerry, I can't find my specific notes for the comments in the Atlantic, but
> below are the expanded references from HDAS. I think it's much too long and
> specialized for the posting to the List.
> 
> Not quoted but very valuable for its technical history of the vehicle is
>  David Fetherston, Jeep. Osceola, Wis.: Motorbooks, 1996.
> I wonder if newspaper databases of 1936-41 would reveal anything new and
> significant.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jon
> 
> SOURCES
> 
> Berent, Mark. Rolling Thunder  N.Y.: Jove Books, 1989, p. 63.
> 
> Berrey, Lester V., and Melvin Van den Bark. The American Thesaurus of Slang,
> with Supplement. N.Y.: Crowell, 1947.  Supplement, p. 32.
> 
> Blackburn, Tom. The Jolly Rogers. N.Y.: Orion, 1989. P. 87.
> 
> Boehm, Sydney. Union Station. Film, 1950.
> 
> Cannon, Jimmy. Nobody Asked Me, But. . . . Ed. J. Cannon and T. Cannon. N.Y.:
> Penguin, 1983.  P. 312.
> 
> Current Slang (U. of South Dakota) V (Summer), p. 16.
> 
> Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ed. M. J.
> Bruccoli. N.Y.: Harcourt, 1978. P. 297.
> 
> Gingrich, Newt, and William  Forstchen. 1945. Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen, 1995. P.
> 379.
> 
> The Great Music of Duke Ellington. Melville, N.Y.: Belwin-Mills, 1973. P. 133.
> 
> Hamann, Fred. Air Words. Seattle: Superior, 1946.
> 
> Honey, John. The Wing Will Fly. Discovery Channel TV, 1991.
> 
> Kahn, E. J. Army Life.   N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1942.  P. 136.
> 
> Kendall, Park.  A Dictionary of Army and Navy Slang, by Park Kendall and
> Johnny Viney. N.Y.: Mills, 1941.
> 
> Kisseloff, Jeff. You Must Remember This. San Diego: Harcourt, 1989.  P. 64.
> 
> LeVier, Tony, and John Guenther. Pilot.  1954; rpt. N.Y.: Bantam, 1990.  P.
> 86.
> 
> Linnekin, Richard. Eighty Knots to Mach 2. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute
> Press, 1991. P. 96.
> 
> Lockwood, Charles A. Lockwood. Zoomies, Subs, and Zeros. N.Y.: Greenberg,
> 1956. P. 9.
> 
> Loosbrock, John F., and Richard M. Skinner. The Wild Blue : The Story of
> American Air Power. N.Y.: Putnam, 1961.  P. 269.
> 
> McCloskey, R. J. "Jeep." American Notes & Queries (Dec., 1943), p. 176.
> 
> Morison, Samuel Eliot. History ofUnited States Naval Operations in World War
> II. Vol. X.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1956. P. 41
> 
> "Nation Begins Creeping Mobilization..."  Life (July 24, 1950), p. 32.
> 
> Randolph Field: A History and Guide. N.Y.: Devin-Adair, 1942. P. 77.
> 
> Sagendorf, Bud. Popeye: The First Fifty Years. N.Y,: Workman, 1979. P. 88.
> 
> [VMF-323 U.S. Marine Corps]. "A Collection of Old American Ballads."  Unpaged
> TS., 1953 [inaccurately dated "1951" in HDAS].
> 
> Weinberg, Robert E., et al. eds. Tough Guys & Dangerous Dames. N.Y.: Barnes &
> Noble, 1993. P. 6.
> 
> HDAS also cites the following periodicals. I did not note authors and titles
> of articles:
> 
> American Notes & Queries (Jan, 1944), p. 156.
> 
> American Speech (Oct., 1941), p. 166, XX (1945), p. 261, XXIX (1954), p. 260,
> XXXVII (1962), p. 77.
> 
> Army Ordnance (July, 1941), p. 79
> 
> The Infantry Journal (July, 1941), p.68.
> 
> The Leatherneck (June, 1942), p. 59.
> 
> The National Geographic Magazine (July, 1941), p. 25.
> 
> New York Times (Feb. 22, 1941) p. 8.
> 
> New York Times Magazine (July 2, 1944), p. 38.
> 
> Saturday Evening Post (July 16, 1938), p. 16; (May 30, 1942), p, 67.
> 
> The Smithsonian (Nov., 1992), p. 63.
> 
> Washington [D.C.] Daily News  (Feb. 20, 1941), p.12.
> 
> Yank-The Army Weekly  (Nov. 11, 1942), p. 4, (May 7, 1943), p. 14.
> 
> 

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