Word: steen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lean, stubborn Charles A. (for Austin) Steen was so full of troubles that it was only natural to think of him as Bad-Luck Charlie. A onetime oil geologist for Socony-Vacuum, he spent two years in the South American jungle where no white men had ever been before, then went to work for a Texas oil company. When he was fired for telling off his boss, he found that no other oil company would have him. He scraped along in the contracting business for a while, but never forgot a romantic dream of his days at the Texas College...
With $1,000 borrowed from his mother in 1948, Steen packed his wife and three children off to southeastern Utah, where there are uranium mines. He "sniffed around" without the help of a Geiger counter, finally staked out claims on a high sandstone ridge in the Big Indian district near Cisco-land which AEC had officially declared "barren of possibilities." Time after time Charlie got promises of money to help develop his property, but when people took a closer look, they always backed out. The Steens lived on oatmeal and beans; the only meat they had was venison which Charlie...
JEHOVAH BLUES (282 pp.)-Marguerite Steen-Doubleday...
...Novelist Marguerite Steen punched out a 2¼-lb., 1,015-page bundle of picaresque entitled The Sun Is My Undoing. It was all about a lusty, highly unprincipled family named Flood, who built up a tidy 18th-century fortune in the slave trade, and it sold more than 600,000 copies in all editions. Three years ago, in Twilight on the Floods, Author Steen brought the family up to the late 19th century, and showed them ebbing into downright respectability. Now, in Jehovah Blues, she puts a short and almost dispirited postscript to the story; the Floods have evaporated...
...Blues ("The beat . . . was a slow dripping of blood") and then headed back to the U.S. Aldebaran spends the greater part of the book in pursuit of Musician Marion, who quite evidently does not want her blood guilt dripping on him. Aldebaran realizes this only after she and Author Steen have floundered through the swamplands of the U.S. color question...