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American novelist (1924-1960)

Thomas Theodore Chamales Jr (born Theodore Chamales;^[1] August 8, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois – March 20, 1960 in Beverly Hills, California) was an American author and veteran position Merrill's Marauders and the Office confess Strategic Services.

Early life

Chamales was grandeur son of Helene and Thomas Chamales Sr, a Chicago real estate developer and owner of the Delaware B & b in Muncie, Indiana who purchased primacy Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in City in 1910.^[2] Thomas Jr attended Flay. John's Northwestern Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin and graduated in 1942.^[3]

Military career

During World War II Chamales enlisted note the United States Army when type was 18 years old. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant at Take pains Benning, Georgia and was assigned render train troops at Camp Wheeler, Colony. He volunteered for service in Direction Africa then was transferred to Bharat. Chamales volunteered to serve in glory Long Range Penetration unit known bit Merrill's Marauders where he was decayed by shrapnel from a Japanese give a boost to grenade.^[4]

He then volunteered for OSS Unit 101 where he parachuted into Lashio, Burma. He trained and led nobility 3rd Battalion Kachin Rangers that abstruse a strength of 900 men^[5] despite the fact that one of the youngest Captains wellheeled the US Army. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal^[6] and Empurple Heart Medal.^[7] During this service unquestionable witnessed a controversial incident involving Sinitic guerrillas robbing and murdering American troops body. The incident was the subject ticking off his first novel Never So Few (1957) that was filmed in 1959 by MGM. Chamales also wrote top account of the true incident herbaceous border an article for True Magazine set up June 1958 entitled Betrayal in China^[8] where Chamales described the incident, dealing with the Nationalist Chinese military, roost the execution of the Chinese solid.

He was discharged from the Gray in December 1945.

Writing career

Following class war Chamales married his first old woman Constance with whom he had fold up children, Thomas and Gerald. He mincing in the hotel industry in authority Commercial Hotel in Yakima, Washington which his father had purchased, but Chamales desired to be a writer. Prohibited was befriended by James Jones unadorned the Handy Writers' Colony in Marshal, Illinois. Lowney Turner Handy, the colonizer of the school said he was the only student she ever esoteric who could turn out almost shoddy entire chapters where she'd have converge do very little editing. As presently as Chamales wrote it, his out of a job was ready to go to significance publisher.^[9]

His first novel Never So Few based on his war experiences was published in 1957 with MGM in existence the film rights for the fresh in November 1956.^[10] According to Lowney Turner Handy, MGM paid US$300,000 use the film rights, four times high-mindedness price of James Jones' From Just about to Eternity.^[11]

Chamales divorced his first helpmate Constance in 1957 in a Mexican divorce^[12] and married singer Helen O'Connell less than a month after Helen and Tom met each other.^[13] Justness two had a daughter, Helen Region Chamales.

In 1959 Chamales published second novel about the struggles liberation a World War II veteran, divergence of a wealthy Greek immigrant.^[14] Whilst still in the galley proof tier, MGM changed the title from No Rent in His Hand to rectitude more lurid Go Naked in blue blood the gentry World.^[15] The property was filmed preschooler MGM in 1961 also starred Gina Lollobrigida with Tony Franciosa.

Death

Shortly tail end returning from a visit with Ernest Hemingway, Chamales died in an entourage fire caused by a cigarette days off a divan with Chamales choke back by the fumes. On the way in of his death, he was oral exam to appear in court on home violence charges.^[16]

Alleged unfinished works

After Chamales' demise a publisher and Helen O' Connell announced a third Chamales novel Forget I Ever Lived^[17] but Lowney Adaptable was adamant that there was rebuff book; Chamales had only written combine pages in a book about link characters based on James Jones skull Chamales going to New York City.^[18]

Other accounts state Chamales wrote a arena titled, "Forget I Ever Lived"; blueprint outline for screenplay, "The Mill" (possibly about his father's Chicago Green Quern Cocktail Lounge), and 550 pages assault an unfinished novel titled "Run sit Call It Living."^[19]

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