Word: thompson
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DOROTHY AND RED, by Vincent Sheean. Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis were mismarried for 14 years. He drank like a fish; she harassed him by conducting stifling salons. She also recorded all the grim details in her diary, and whatever she missed Old Friend Sheean provides in a running commentary...
...Jackson and the headlines of the nation. The death of a prominent civil rights leader and the threat of Negro violence could not be ignored; city, country, and state police joined the FBI in the hunt for the killer. Gov. Ross Barnett and Jackson's Mayor Allen C. Thompson, both members of the Citizens Council, offered rewards for the apprehension of the assassin. Fingerprints on the murder weapon led the federal detectives to Greenwood, Miss., where the first Citizens Council in Mississippi was founded, and to Beckworth. He was charged with murder, and District Attorney William L. Walker demanded...
DOROTHY AND RED, by Vincent Sheean. Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis were mismarried for 14 years. He drank like a school of fish; she harassed him by conducting stifling salons. She also recorded all the grim details in her diary, and whatever she missed Old Friend Sheean provides in a running commentary...
Novelist Sinclair Lewis and globe-trotting Dorothy Thompson made a glamorous couple, but their marriage was stormy and it ended in a bitter divorce. Miss Thomp-on recorded every detail, from the giddy courtship to the last wrathful grape, and Sheean squares the famous family circle with some superfluous amateur analysis...
...Biographer Vincent Sheean did, and what he did not know then he later learned as house guest of the Lewises at Barnard, Vt., and from the Dorothy Thompson papers at Syracuse University. "Jimmy" Sheean was "too pretty" and had "a wet lower lip," his friend Dorothy noted in her diary, but there was nothing the matter with his eyesight; his book about the private and public life of Dorothy and "Red" Lewis is an extraordinary thing. Involving as it does the privacy of two people recently dead and known to thousands of others who are still living...