New Day (novel) New Day (novel) New Day is a 1949 book by Jamaican author V. S. Reid. It was Reid's first novel. "New Day" deals with the political history of Jamaica as told by a character named Campbell, who is a boy at the time of the Morant Bay Rebellion (in 1865) and an old man during its final chapters. It may have been the first novel to use Jamaican vernacular as its language of narration. Reid employed the Jamaican dialect as a springboard for creating a distinctive literary variant and for achieving a greater depth in the English language. Reid was
A Day in the Life of Dennis Day A Day in the Life of Dennis Day A Day in the Life of Dennis Day is an American old-time radio situation comedy. It was broadcast on NBC from October 3, 1946, to June 30, 1951. It is also sometimes referred to as "The Dennis Day Show" (not to be confused with the television program of the same name). For most of the program's time on the air, Dennis Day played a soda jerk who sang as he worked. His character was naive, innocent, and prone to making wisecracks, much like the character Day played on "The Jack Benny Program".