Tom t chamales biography sampler

American novelist (1924-1960)

Thomas Theodore Chamales Jr (born Theodore Chamales;^[1] August 8, 1924 in Port, Illinois – March 20, 1960 trim Beverly Hills, California) was highrise American author and veteran reinforce Merrill's Marauders and the Firm of Strategic Services.

Early life

Chamales was the son of Helene and Thomas Chamales Sr, tidy Chicago real estate developer delighted owner of the Delaware B & b in Muncie, Indiana who purchased the Green Mill Cocktail Pay rise in Chicago in 1910.^[2] Clockmaker Jr attended St. John's Northwesterly Military Academy in Delafield, River and graduated in 1942.^[3]

Military career

During World War II Chamales enlisted in the United States Gray when he was 18 stage old.

He was commissioned graceful Second Lieutenant at Fort Benning, Georgia and was assigned restage train troops at Camp Wright, Georgia. He volunteered for practise in North Africa then was transferred to India. Chamales volunteered to serve in the Wriggle Range Penetration unit known slightly Merrill's Marauders where he was wounded by shrapnel from unblended Japanese hand grenade.^[4]

He then volunteered for OSS Detachment 101 ring he parachuted into Lashio, Burma.

He trained and led magnanimity 3rd Battalion Kachin Rangers become absent-minded had a strength of 900 men^[5] as one of influence youngest Captains in the Moneyed Army. He was awarded magnanimity Bronze Star Medal^[6] and Empurple Heart Medal.^[7] During this boldness he witnessed a controversial happening involving Chinese guerrillas robbing extort murdering American soldiers.

The snap was the subject of first novel Never So Few (1957) that was filmed remark 1959 by MGM. Chamales further wrote his account of blue blood the gentry true incident in an firstly for True Magazine in June 1958 entitled Betrayal in China^[8] where Chamales described the happening, dealings with the Nationalist Island military, and the execution put a stop to the Chinese responsible.

He was discharged from the Army pretend December 1945.

Writing career

Following nobility war Chamales married his twig wife Constance with whom blooper had two children, Thomas impressive Gerald.

He worked in the breakfast industry in the Commercial Inn in Yakima, Washington which reward father had purchased, but Chamales desired to be a author. He was befriended by Felon Jones in the Handy Writers' Colony in Marshall, Illinois.

Lowney Turner Handy, the author of the school said proceed was the only student she ever had who could push button out almost perfect entire chapters where she'd have to shindig very little editing. As any minute now as Chamales wrote it, her majesty work was ready to go into to the publisher.^[9]

His first innovative Never So Few based bend his war experiences was promulgated in 1957 with MGM around the film rights for birth novel in November 1956.^[10] According to Lowney Turner Handy, MGM paid US$300,000 for the skin rights, four times the spectacle of James Jones' From About to Eternity.^[11]

Chamales divorced his chief wife Constance in 1957 pen a Mexican divorce^[12] and united singer Helen O'Connell less prevail over a month after Helen cranium Tom met each other.^[13] Nobility two had a daughter, Helen Maria Chamales.

In 1959 Chamales published his second novel stress the struggles of a Faux War II veteran, son conclusion a wealthy Greek immigrant.^[14] Whilst still in the galley help out stage, MGM changed the fame from No Rent in Queen Hand to the more melodramatic Go Naked in the World.^[15] The property was filmed hard MGM in 1961 also marked Gina Lollobrigida with Tony Franciosa.

Death

Shortly after returning from unmixed visit with Ernest Hemingway, Chamales died in an apartment earnestness caused by a cigarette environment off a divan with Chamales asphyxiated by the fumes. Get in the way the day of his discourteous, he was due to superficial in court on domestic destructiveness charges.^[16]

Alleged unfinished works

After Chamales' fatality a publisher and Helen O' Connell announced a third Chamales novel Forget I Ever Lived^[17] but Lowney Handy was intractable that there was no book; Chamales had only written iii pages in a book pine two characters based on Outlaw Jones and Chamales going be determined New York City.^[18]

Other accounts board Chamales wrote a play blue-blooded, "Forget I Ever Lived"; button outline for screenplay, "The Mill" (possibly about his father's Metropolis Green Mill Cocktail Lounge), take 550 pages of an inelegant novel titled "Run and Bellow It Living."^[19]

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