Word: sheean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CITY, by John Gunther. To those who remember the days of beats and journalistic feats in the '30s and '40s, Gunther's novel has enormous nostalgic value. The lost city is Vienna, and its dashing celebrants were U.S. correspondents as distinguished as Dorothy Thompson and Vincent Sheean assigned there just before the Anschluss...
Golden Age. For Gunther, who arrived there in 1930, it also meant some pretty fast journalistic company. Such famed Vienna hands and visiting correspondents as Vincent Sheean, William L. Shirer, the New York Evening Post's roving Dorothy Thompson and its resident Balkanologist M. W. ("Mike") Fodor, I.N.S.'s H. R. Knickerbocker, the Chicago Daily News's Negley Farson-and many other now-legendary figures-were Gunther's cablehead competitors and constant café companions. Together, they zestfully created the profession and the mystique of the U.S. foreign correspondent, and built the by-lined reputations that...
...Dorothy and Red, Sheean...
...Dorothy and Red, Sheean...
...Dorothy and Red, Sheean...