James Jones

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO WAR:DECEMBER 7, 1941.Stanley Weintraub.Dutton.706 pages. $26.95.Orson Welles was downing a drink in the lobby of the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago. CBS correspondent Ed Murrow was on the fourth hole of a golf game. Ensign John F. Kennedy was attending the final football game of the season at Washington's Griffith Stadium. Adlai Stevenson had just returned from a family picnic and Charles Lindbergh got the news when he casually turned on the radio at his home on Martha's Vineyard.

Carson McCourry had the look of a fighter who wanted more. Much more.He stalked around the ring in circles, a menacing snarl across his reddened face, as his opponent slumped against the ropes.The night hadn't gone according to plan for either boxer."I was trying to box him, but he kept coming at me," the Pasadena resident said after raising his record to 2-0 with a first-round knockout oflight-heavyweight James Jones (1-2) of Hampton, Va., Thursday.His fists continued to fly as he shadow-boxed in a corner of his dressing room at La Fontaine Bleu in Glen Burnie -- a bundle of frenetic energy seeking a release.