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He was born on May 3, 1906 in New Jersey to William Brown Meloney (1878–1925) and Marie Mattingley Meloney (1878-1943), Meloney became a journalist, like his parents.
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Many Are The Travelers
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Book Description Publication Date: 1954 This distinguished book is full of living things; good living, bad living; but always big living as is the prepotent, vigorous story of a family and a town but more particulary of one man who waneted to break away from both. In Haviland, there was nothing wrong with being a Tracy for anyone but John Milnor. For most of his adult life, John milnor had been trying to escape from the little town and from the fact that he had been born a bastard. Though no one ever mentioned it, everyone knew he was as much a member of the Tracy dynasty as those who bore the name. Not that any son of Elizabeth Milnor and Matthew need feel ashamed. Their love had been big and open. The years they had lived together in the small house on the hill were still warm in their son's memory. But the stigma remained to taunt him at every crucial point in his live: when he voted for the first time, when he entered the army, when he fell in love...It was Milnor's half brother Matt, the head of the clan who finally forced the issue into the open, When young Matt died he bequeathed to John the vast sprawling acres that had brought wealth and power to the generations of Tracys. Then John had to decide whether he could leave the rolling hills and farmlands, or stay with the Tracy line and accept the challenge of his heritage.
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William Meloney
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In 1929 he had an affair with Priscilla Fansler Hobson, who became pregnant with Meloney"s child and who underwent an abortion. Priscilla in the same year married Alger Hiss, who in 1950 was convicted of perjury for lying to a Congressional committee. Meloney was married first to Elizabeth Ryder Symons of Saginaw, Michigan, the daughter of Mr. and Mistress
James Shirley Symons, then to playwright and screenwriter Rose Franken.
In 1933, Meloney and Elizabeth were living in Pawling, New York, where he was editor of the Pawling Chronicle. He was also the local correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and The New York Times.
In the mid-1930s, Meloney was writing motion picture scripts with Rose Dorothy Lewin Franken, and the two were married on April 27, 1937. By that time he had become a lawyer and was also an executive on This Week magazine, of which his mother was the editors
Meloney and Franken "relocated to Longmeadow, a working farm in Lyme, Connecticut, which, under their management, was adopted as a model of diversified farming by the local agricultural college at Storrs." The two continued writing, "both individually and collaboratively, for magazines, including Harper"s Bazaar and Collier"son
They sometimes wrote together under the pseudonym Franken Meloney." (Some sources also ascribe the "Margaret Grant" pen-name to the couple)
He died May 3 or 4, 1971, probably in Litchfield, Connecticut. Outrageous Fortune, November 3, 1943 – January 8, 1944
Doctor"s Disagree, December 28, 1943 – January 15, 1944
Soldier"s Wife, October 4, 1944 – May 12, 1945
The Hallams, March 4, 1948 – March 13, 1948.
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Many Are The Travelers
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Many Loves Have I (Original Title: Many Are Travelers) (Complete and Unabridged)
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Many Are The Travelers
