英语词汇jack armstrong the all-american boy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Jack Armstrong, the all-American boy. Jack Armstrong, and Frank Meriwell before him, seem to have no counterpart today on the airwaves, unless television’s Hardy Boys qualify. “Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy” was presented afternoons, right after school, by “Wheaties—Breakfast of Champions,” during the thirties and early forties. No more than an animated ideal, he often inspired cynical jokes, but the name of this Wheaties-eating hero certainly became part of the language, frequently as a kind of sarcastic description for someone too square or goody-goody, in the language of the time. I had thought Jack’s name might have been suggested by the real-life bully Jack Armstrong, who lost that legendary wrestling match with young Abe Lincoln and later became his friend. But it ap- pears that General Mills (Wheaties) executive Sammy Gale had roomed with a real Jack Armstrong in college and decided to use his name for the program’s hero because it seemed to convey “all-American virtues of courage, a sense of humor, and the championing of ideals.” Jack Lawrence Armstrong, the real Jack Armstrong, the son of a retired British Army officer, moved to the U.S. from Canada at the age of four and later received a civil engineering degree from the University of Minnesota. He was a much-decorated army air force officer during World War II and later served on the Atomic Energy Commission and worked for the Apollo and Gemini space programs. He died in 1985, aged 74.

词汇	jack armstrong the all-american boy
词源	Jack Armstrong, the all-American boy. Jack Armstrong, and Frank Meriwell before him, seem to have no counterpart today on the airwaves, unless television’s Hardy Boys qualify. “Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy” was presented afternoons, right after school, by “Wheaties—Breakfast of Champions,” during the thirties and early forties. No more than an animated ideal, he often inspired cynical jokes, but the name of this Wheaties-eating hero certainly became part of the language, frequently as a kind of sarcastic description for someone too square or goody-goody, in the language of the time. I had thought Jack’s name might have been suggested by the real-life bully Jack Armstrong, who lost that legendary wrestling match with young Abe Lincoln and later became his friend. But it ap- pears that General Mills (Wheaties) executive Sammy Gale had roomed with a real Jack Armstrong in college and decided to use his name for the program’s hero because it seemed to convey “all-American virtues of courage, a sense of humor, and the championing of ideals.” Jack Lawrence Armstrong, the real Jack Armstrong, the son of a retired British Army officer, moved to the U.S. from Canada at the age of four and later received a civil engineering degree from the University of Minnesota. He was a much-decorated army air force officer during World War II and later served on the Atomic Energy Commission and worked for the Apollo and Gemini space programs. He died in 1985, aged 74.
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