Word: sheean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in Barcelona, Author-Correspondent Vincent Sheean took advantage of the lull to get off a few fresh observations on the 22-month-old war. Most striking thing about the war to Sheean, who reached Spain only two months ago, is its incongruous combination of ultra-modern and primitive methods. The ultramodern: "Newfangled bombs, thermite, delayed-action fuses and the like, which are capable of greater destruction than any bombs hitherto used in war." The primitive: "There are no proper trenches anywhere [with the exception of those outside Madrid]. The ditches and ravines in these dusty clay hills take...
...Leftists' International Brigades, some of which lost three-fifths of their men and most of their officers in the Aragón retreat, are now reformed for service in the Catalonian, northern half of Leftist territory, reported Sheean. The 15th Brigade, which includes the U. S. Lincoln-Washington battalion, the Canadian and British battalions, is now commanded by a Croat, Colonel Chopic. Its political commissar, John Gates, is a little soft-spoken union organizer from New York. "The Americans in the brigade are about 75% to 80% Communists-a much higher percentage than in other brigades. In the British...
...general impression," concluded Sheean, "is that Italy and Germany will have to make a renewed effort, a further expenditure of men, money and material, if they hope to win this war. The resistance of the Spanish [Leftist] people is incalculable. The very babies raise their clenched fists in the air against the foreign airplanes...
...most literate of U. S. women's clubs, Chicago's Friends of American Writers, gives an annual award to a Midwestern writer for work showing "originality of technique and value as a piece of Americana." Prizewinners in the past have included Carl Sandburg, Harriet Monroe, Vincent Sheean, some 16 other Midwesterners. Professional literary critics have no say in Friends of American Writers' selections. For its 1937 award of $1.000, the club's committee of 21 considered but passed over books by Ernest Hemingway, Dorothea Brande, Louis Bromfield, chose 30-year-old William Maxwell's They...
MADAME CURIE-Eve Curie-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). Unusual among biographies of parents for its combination of tenderness, good judgment and good writing (excellently transmitted in Vincent Sheean's translation), this is an unforgettable first full-length biography of the delicate, blonde Polish girl who rose from a governess to the world's greatest woman scientist. Famed for her hard-won discovery of radium, Madame Curie here emerges as most deserving of fame for her incorruptible stand against cashing in on it. Known for an emotional self-discipline as strict asher public reserve, her response to the accidental death...