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Died. Vincent Sheean, 75, Odyssean foreign correspondent and author; following treatment for lung cancer; in Arola, Italy. Sheean covered many of the century's key events: the rise to power of Mussolini and Hitler, the Chinese revolution of 1927, the Spanish Civil War, the London Blitz and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Charing at the shibboleth of objectivity, he adopted a personal, partisan, generally leftist tone, though his fervor cooled after the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. After the war he turned to biography, writing about Gandhi, Verdi, and his friends Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. But his best...
...copies over the past 30 years; in Manhattan. Blessed with a gregarious charm and intense curiosity, Gunther first won notice in the 1930s as European correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, filing reports of Germany's relentless march to war that ranked with those of Vincent Sheean and William Shirer. In 1936 Gunther produced the first of his fast-paced, infinitely detailed books, Inside Europe. ("I wrote, among other things, that the Führer was nil sexually" -a bit of lèse-majesté that would have marked him for elimination if he had ever fallen into...
...used her Beacon Street music room as a showcase for young performers, once staged a matinee prizefight for Back Bay's society ladies, who had naturally never been allowed by their husbands to see such a vulgar spectacle. "It was for a purse of $150," reminisced Referee Jack Sheean, "and I matched Knucksey Doherty of Donegal Square with Tim Harrington of Cambridge and told them to be themselves. I figured some of those sedate, quietly dressed society women would scream or faint, but the vestal virgins in the Coliseum never looked on with more calm than these high...
BEWARE OF CAESAR by Vincent Sheean. 244 pages. Random House...
...Claudius' unstable stepson Nero and was rewarded for his pains several years later when his onetime student ordered him to commit suicide. At least Nero recognized greatness; ordinary mortals died by torture when a shadow crossed the Emperor's demented brain. In this threadbare, novelistic pastiche, Vincent Sheean treats Seneca far worse. Though the historical Seneca was second only to Cicero as an exponent of Stoicism, Sheean's Seneca has only windy self-pity and a maundering facility with cosmic clichés ("In my opinion the wickedest and unworthiest of men are generally the most rewarded...