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however. One, called Between the Thunder and the Sun, I guess even outsold Personal History. He became a war correspondent during World War Two and managed to make one wrong prediction after another. He's still alive, I guess.

I'm sure that he is. Sheehan did write a good book on Gandhi.

Yes. It was called Lead Kidly Light. It was a Book of the Month Club choice.

It's still considered very good.

Yes. It was a good book, but Sheehan came back with a raft of crazy ideas he had picked up while researching it in India. For instance, when Douglas MacArthur returned as a hero and had a victory parade up Park Avenue, I was standing with Vincent Sheehan up on about the twenty-fourth floor of the Waldorf when MacArthur went by far below. Sheehan insisted to me that Douglas MacArthur had seen him up on the twenty-fourth floor and that they had had a communication by wave length. That's when I realized that I was talking to a man who was going off the beam. He got worse and worse.

Did you discontinue publishing him?

We did a couple of his novels. He's one of those men