Word: sheean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BETWEEN THE THUNDER AND THE SUN-Vincent Sheean-Random House...
...Vincent Sheean's Personal History (TIME, Feb. 4, 1935) he told how he stood near the Acropolis at Athens one day and held a passionately political conversation with the ghost of a Bolshevik. The Bolshevik was the late Rayna Prohme, U.S. Marxist, with whom Sheean had had a violently platonic love affair during the Chinese revolution and later in Moscow. "But I'm not a revolutionary," Sheean complained. Said Rayna's spirit: "Whoever told you you had to be a revolutionary? Everybody isn't born with an obligation to act." Mrs. Prohme's spirit urged...
Left. By the late Maxine Elliott, famed stage beauty: an estate appraised at $1,140,065 net; the bulk of it to her sister, Lady Gertrude Forbes-Robertson, the rest to four nieces (including Mrs. Vincent Sheean), one maid...
...found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...
From Clare Boothe and Vincent Sheean over WOR-Mutual that evening came sober talk of the U.S. task. Said Sheean: "Shall we pretend, as I have heard so-called experts pretend today on the radio, that this thing is easy? . . . Let us get ready for a series of shocks...