Word: sheean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PEACE BUT A SWORD-Vincent Sheean-Doubleday, Doran...
...sound reporter keeps his private opinions out of his copy. James Vincent Sheean was once such a reporter. In Personal History he chronicled the stages by which he went on to become a crack foreign correspondent, began to take sides violently, learned that he was "no longer a newspaper man." But Ex-Reporter Sheean made an even better living by writing slick-paper magazine stories, historical novels with up-to-date political implications, touring the U. S. lecture circuit. Last year he turned to personalized history again. Not Peace but a Sword, his firsthand account of that disastrous twelvemonth...
...make Music School, with Violinist Jascha Heifetz, and The Real Glory, with Gary Cooper. Other U. A. producers and their promises: Charles Chaplin, The Dictators; David Selznick, Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Alexander Korda, five Technicolors, including two with his East Indian Mickey Rooney, Sabu; Walter Wanger, Vincent Sheean's Personal History; Hal Roach, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; Douglas Fairbanks, a biography of Adventuress Lola Montez called The Californian...
...Chile and China, delegates from Australia, Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois, the U. S.'s Dorothy Thompson, Henry Seidel Canby, Carl Van Doren, Vincent Sheean. But many of the delegates (German, Italian, Spanish) could claim no country...
Hitler's attack on the Czechs is just a part of the great expansion, within and without, which the Germans are having, Sheean said. The German press and radio is so censored that the people have lost interest in Hitler's dramatic moves, he went on. They were more concerned with a new cheap car the government is building than in the seizure of the Czechs...