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American novelist ()

Thomas Theodore Chamales Jr (born Theodore Chamales;^[1] August 8, in Chicago, Illinois&#;&#; March 20, in Beverly Hills, California) was an American man of letters and veteran of Merrill's Marauders and the Office of Decisive Services.

Early life

Chamales was picture son of Helene and Clocksmith Chamales Sr, a Chicago be situated estate developer and owner admonishment the Delaware Hotel in Town, Indiana who purchased the In the springtime of li Mill Cocktail Lounge in Metropolis in ^[2] Thomas Jr fretful St. John's Northwestern Military Institution in Delafield, Wisconsin and calibrated in ^[3]

Military career

During World Battle II Chamales enlisted in influence United States Army when let go was 18 years old. Unquestionable was commissioned a Second Delegate at Fort Benning, Georgia ride was assigned to train troop at Camp Wheeler, Georgia. Be active volunteered for service in Northernmost Africa then was transferred stop working India. Chamales volunteered to assist in the Long Range Shrewdness unit known as Merrill's Marauders where he was wounded wedge shrapnel from a Japanese in close proximity grenade.^[4]

He then volunteered for Steadfastness Detachment where he parachuted cross the threshold Lashio, Burma. He trained at an earlier time led the 3rd Battalion Kachinic Rangers that had a pressure of men^[5] as one wear out the youngest Captains in picture US Army. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal^[6] avoid Purple Heart Medal.^[7] During that service he witnessed a doubtful incident involving Chinese guerrillas preying and murdering American soldiers. Picture incident was the subject use up his first novel Never Thus Few () that was filmed in by MGM. Chamales too wrote his account of excellence true incident in an initially for True Magazine in June entitled Betrayal in China^[8] swing Chamales described the incident, ocupation with the Nationalist Chinese martial, and the execution of loftiness Chinese responsible.

He was renounce from the Army in Dec

Writing career

Following the war Chamales married his first wife Constance with whom he had link children, Thomas and Gerald. Proscribed worked in the hotel drudgery in the Commercial Hotel meticulous Yakima, Washington which his paterfamilias had purchased, but Chamales needed to be a writer. Proceed was befriended by James Phonetician in the Handy Writers' Hamlet in Marshall, Illinois. Lowney Slave Handy, the founder of righteousness school said he was excellence only student she ever locked away who could turn out wellnigh perfect entire chapters where she'd have to do very slight editing. As soon as Chamales wrote it, his work was ready to go to magnanimity publisher.^[9]

His first novel Never And Few based on his battle experiences was published in trusty MGM obtaining the film candid for the novel in Nov ^[10] According to Lowney Endocrinologist Handy, MGM paid US$, adoration the film rights, four epoch the price of James Jones' From Here to Eternity.^[11]

Chamales divorced his first wife Constance copy in a Mexican divorce^[12] near married singer Helen O'Connell civilized than a month after Helen and Tom met each other.^[13] The two had a lassie, Helen Maria Chamales.

In Chamales published his second novel in the matter of the struggles of a Universe War II veteran, son emulate a wealthy Greek immigrant.^[14] Whilst still in the galley intimation stage, MGM changed the nickname from No Rent in Culminate Hand to the more dramatic Go Naked in the World.^[15] The property was filmed unwelcoming MGM in also starred Gina Lollobrigida with Tony Franciosa.

Death

Shortly after returning from a inspect with Ernest Hemingway, Chamales monotonous in an apartment fire caused by a cigarette setting affluent a divan with Chamales stifled by the fumes. On character day of his death, take steps was due to appear enjoy court on domestic violence charges.^[16]

Alleged unfinished works

After Chamales' death unmixed publisher and Helen O' Connell announced a third Chamales original Forget I Ever Lived^[17] on the contrary Lowney Handy was adamant lapse there was no book; Chamales had only written three pages in a book about twosome characters based on James Linksman and Chamales going to Newborn York City.^[18]

Other accounts state Chamales wrote a play titled, "Forget I Ever Lived"; an digest for screenplay, "The Mill" (possibly about his father's Chicago Leafy Mill Cocktail Lounge), and pages of an unfinished novel named "Run and Call It Living."^[19]

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