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Trapped by flames in the upper stories of their Mt. Vernon, N. Y. house, Author Vincent Sheean, his wife (Diana Forbes-Robertson) and their two small children escaped being burned to death by leaping from windows. Author Sheean sprained an ankle, singed his hair; his wife suffered severe burns. The eleven-room house, which they leased from Sinclair Lewis and his wife, Dorothy Thompson, burned to a crisp...
...German-born exile from Nazi-occupied Czecho-Slovakia and The Netherlands: slight, balding Klaus Mann, son of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Thomas Mann. Editorial advisers include such refugee notables as Dr. Eduard Benes, Stefan Zweig, Somerset Maugham, such native littérateurs as Playwright Robert Sherwood, Newsman Vincent Sheean, Editor (of The Nation) Freda Kirchwey, Taletellers Stephen Vincent Benét and Sherwood Anderson...
...Sheean told of two invasion alarms (both covered up by British censorship) that were sounded in Britain, one along the English Channel coast after midnight on Aug. 25, the other in the north on Sept...
...Said Sheean: "I was told that the fog rolling in over the beach was synthetic. I don't know whose fog it was-whether the Germans were trying it out or the British were practicing...
...Sheean: "Nobody...