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Lee Shippey en 1948. Los Angeles Times photo par John Malmin

Henry Lee Shippey (1884-1969), qui écrivait sous le nom de Lee Shippey, était auteur et journaliste dont la romance avec une femme française pendant la Première Guerre mondiale faisait sensation aux États-Unis comme un «triangle fameuse de la guerre."[1] Après, Shippey écrivait une chronique populaire dans le journal The Los Angeles Times au cours des 22 ans.

Biographie[modifier | modifier le code]

Début de la vie[modifier | modifier le code]

Shippey est né le 26 février 1884, à Memphis, Tennessee, le fils de William Francis Shippey et Elizabeth Kerr Freligh du Missouri.[2] Ses sœurs étaient Louisia, Virginia Lee Davis et Mme Charles Stewart. Le pére Shippey était un vétéran de la marine Confédérée et était trésorier d'une société de chemin de fer. Après la mort de son père le 24 juillet 1899,[3] Lee a commencé sa vie professionnelle comme ouvrier d'une installation d'emballage, puis a début sa carrière journalistique comme éditeur de copie de nuit sur le Kansas City Times, tout en allant à l'école secondaire la journée. [4]

En travaillant en 1906, un «accident de fumées» a entraîné la perte de la plupart de sa vision. "Alors qu'il restait impuissant au lit, pensant que la vie ne rien tiendrait dans l'avenir pour lui, il a été stupéfait d'entendre sa sœur lire å haute voix certains de ses propres écrits humoristiques qu'il avait subrepticement laissé sur le bureau du rédacteur en chef adjoint du Kansas City Star" L'éditeur lui a offert un emploi,[5] au premier payant le jeune homme de son propre salaire,[6] et il dictait ses premières colonnes de l'humour pour le Star de son lit.[7]

While on the job in 1906, an "accident with fumes" resulted in the loss of most of his sight. "As he lay helpless in bed, thinking life held nothing in the future for him, he was astounded to hear his sister reading some of his own humorous writings which he had surreptitiously left on the desk of the associate editor of the Kansas City Star." The editor offered him a job,[5] at first paying the young man from his own salary,[6] and he dictated his first humor columns for the Star from his bed.[7]

Shippey was married to another writer, Mary Blake Woodson, on August 20, 1908, in Jackson County, Missouri. They lived together while he was editor-owner of a newspaper in Higginsville, Missouri, and their only child, Henry Lee Shippey Jr., was born on May 20, 1910, in that state.[2][7][8] In 1917 Lee Shippey was president of the Missouri Writers' Guild.[9][10] He was known as the "poet-philosopher of Higginsville."[11]

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Romance[modifier | modifier le code]

Lee Shippey, with his first wife, Mary Blake Woodson, left, and his second wife, Madeleine Babin, bottom. This layout appeared in several U.S. newspapers in December 1921

During World War I, Shippey was working for the YMCA in Paris, France.[2][7][8][12][13] On November 1, 1918, the 34-year-old Shippey met 20-year-old Madeleine Babin, who, with her family, was placing flowers on the graves in the American cemetery in Suresnes, France.[14][15] At this point, the Babins — a mother and two daughters — had lost the father of the family, Georges, who died after being discharged as a private in the French army. Shippey helped Madeleine and her sister, Georgette, get jobs as interpreters for the YMCA, and "Every Sunday and holiday and many a long summer evening they visited historic or beautiful places in or near Paris."[16]

In a column that was later published in newspapers across the country "that the real and ungarbled truth may be known of the famous 'war triangle,' " Shippey recalled that:

For ten months our friendship grew. I came to love the whole family. May 1, 1919, when I was notified that my hotel was to be closed, I went to their home to board, and there was taken into the most beautiful family life I have ever seen. The courage with which they met misfortunes and their sweetness to each other made their home so pleasant that the months I spent there were the happiest of my life.[14][15]

During this period, Shippey and Madeleine were "married in a church in Paris . . . by a ritual of their own."[17]

In August 1919, Shippey returned to the United States, confessed his love for Madeleine and asked his wife, Mary, for a divorce. She refused. Shippey resumed writing his column, "Missouri Notes," for the Kansas City Star. In November, Madeleine arrived in Kansas City and "revealed to Shippey that she was about to become a mother. Her mother and sister arrived about Christmas." Mary Shippey again refused a divorce but offered to care for the child as her own. When Shippey turned her down, she informed the Star of the situation and Shippey was discharged. He then left for California, and Mary reported the case to American immigration authorities, who in February 1920 opened an inquiry into what the Chicago Daily Tribune called "a Franco-American romance and an American tragedy."[18][19]

Testimony was taken in secret by the immigration commissioner and a transcript of the evidence, with the recommendations of the immigration inspector regarding deportation, has been sent to the department of labor in Washington for final action.[18]

Lee and Madeleine's child, Henry George Shippey, was born in Kansas City on May 8, 1920.[2] In June the warrants for the arrest and deportation of the Babin family were canceled by Louis F. Post, the assistant U.S. secretary of labor, who noted that the Babin family had come to the United States "at the invitation" of Shippey, who "if he were divorced he would marry the alien, who is about to be, if she has not already become, the mother of his child." The New York Times noted that Madeleine was "supporting herself by sewing and giving French lessons."[10]

Divorce and remarriage[modifier | modifier le code]

In early 1921 Lee and Madeleine were living in Tampico, Mexico, where Lee was editing a newspaper[7] and free-lancing. On January 12 of that year Mary Shippey sued Lee for divorce in a Kansas City, Missouri, court, mentioning the name of Madeleine Babin in the complaint. Mary's petition charged that Lee "habitually consorted with immoral women and now is living in open and notorious adultery with women of well-known immoral character."[20] Lee Shippey responded with a divorce suit in a Tamaulipas, Mexico, court, claiming that Mary's suit was not filed in good faith but rather to "cause grief and injury." He said she had threatened to leave him for another man while Lee was in France and that they had "never lived in the harmony which should characterize the marital relation."[1][7][12]

On September 29, 1921, Mary Shippey was granted a divorce from Lee after being on the witness stand for four hours,[21] and the next month Lee and Madeleine were married in Mexico City.[2][22]

Los Angeles Times career[modifier | modifier le code]

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City Hall serves as prop for pencil, 1930.

A story that Shippey had written in 1918 from Verdun, France, telling of the end of World War I attracted the attention of Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, who commented, "A fellow who can write like that can join the Times family any time he wants to." Nine years later Shippey asked Chandler for a job, and he was hired[6] to "Get out and find human interest stuff anywhere in the State; find out what the ordinary and extraordinary people of California are about; dig up stuff that the tourists, and even the natives have not discovered about themselves."[23]

For the next two decades, Shippey wrote columns for the Times — "The Lee Side o' L.A."[12] and "The Seymour Family,"[6] living for some of that time in Sierra Madre, California.[5]

Retirement and death[modifier | modifier le code]

Shippey retired in 1949, moved back to family property in Del Mar, California, and started writing columns for three San Diego County newspapers[5] — including the San Diego Union and the Del Mar Surfcomber.[12] In 1956, Shippey, then 72, was honored by the Authors Guild of Los Angeles for his "half-century of service as a journalist, author and 'friend to man.' " President Paul Wellman cited Shippey's "astonishing array" of published works and lauded him as a man of "good humor, discernment and, above all, sympathy." He said Shippey had "immense kindliness of spirit," with a "warm grin for everybody and a sage philosophy of life."[6]

Shippey died on December 30, 1969, in a nursing home in Encinitas, California, at the age of 86. He was survived by his five children by his second wife — Henry George, Charles Stuart III, John James, Francis Robert and Sylvia Georgette Thomas. Madeleine died October 20, 1978, in Weaverville, California, and was also buried in El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego.[2][12]

His books[modifier | modifier le code]

Illustration in It's an Old California Custom

  • Where Nothing Ever Happens, 1935[24][25]
  • California Progress; Great Projects Which Overcome Handicaps of the Past, 1936, with Herbert Edward Floercky [26]
  • Girl Who Wanted Experience, 1937[24]
  • The Great American Family, 1938[24][27]
  • If We Only Had Money, 1939[24]
  • It's an Old California Custom, 1948[24]
  • Los Angeles Book, 1950, with photos by Max Yavno[24]
  • Luckiest Man Alive; Being the Author's Own Story, With Certain Omissions, But Including Hitherto Unpublished Sidelights on Some Famous Persons and Incidents, 1959[24]

References[modifier | modifier le code]

  1. ↑ a et b "Charges Wife With Malice," Los Angeles Times, August 19, 1921, page II-1 L'access å ce lien requiert l'usage d'une carte bibliothèquaire,
  2. ↑ a b c d e et f Genealogy at Shippee.info
  3. ↑ "Capt. W.F. Shippey Dies," Kansas City Journal, July 25, 1899, page 3
  4. ↑ Robert R. Kirsch, "Lee Shippey: A Fortunate Man," Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1959, page B-5 Access to this link requires the use of a library card.
  5. ↑ a b c et d Ed Ainsworth, "Blind Lee Shippey Says He's Lucky," Los Angeles Times, October 18, 1959, page B-1 Access to this link requires the use of a library card.
  6. ↑ a b c d et e Lee Shippey, Veteran Times Writer, Honored," Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1956, page 34 Access to this link requires the use of a library card.
  7. ↑ a b c d e et f The Register of Lee Shippey Papers 1915–1970, Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego
  8. ↑ a et b "Divorce Ends War Triangle Built by Poet," Chicago Daily Tribune, September 30, 1921, page 1 Registration is required to access this link.
  9. ↑ "Today's Journalism Topic Writing Side," Columbia Missourian, May 15, 1917, page 4
  10. ↑ a et b "Post Frees the Babin Women," New York Times, June 2, 1920
  11. ↑ "Lee Shippey to Speak Here," University Missourian, August 8, 1913, page 3
  12. ↑ a b c d et e "Lee Shippey, Author and Times Columnist for 22 Years, Dies," Los Angeles Times, December 31, 1969, page A-1 Access to this link requires the use of a library card.
  13. ↑ "Lee Shippey, Wrote California Column," New York Times, January 1, 1970
  14. ↑ a et b "Shippey Tells His Own Story," Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1920, page 11 Access to this link requires the use of a library card. A longer version of this column appeared in the Kansas City Star.
  15. ↑ a et b "Betrayer of French Girl Bares Story," San Francisco Chronicle, February 29, 1920 Registration is required to access this link.
  16. ↑ "Principals in Strange Heart Tangle Bequeated by the War," Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1920, page II-1 Access to this link requires the use of a library card.
  17. ↑ "Weds Girl Who Cost Him Wife," Los Angeles Times, October 21, 1921, page II-1 Access to this link requires the use of a library card.
  18. ↑ a et b "Triangle Job in War Builds Love Triangle," Chicago Daily Tribune, February 26, 1920, page 1 Registration is required to access this link."
  19. ↑ "Seeking to Deport Girl," Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1920, page II-1 Access to this link requires the use of a library card.
  20. ↑ "Mrs. Lee Shippey Asks Divorce," New York Times, January 13, 1921
  21. ↑ "Divorce Ends War Triangle Built by Poet," Chicago Daily Tribune, September 30, 1921, page 1
  22. ↑ "Lee Shippey Weds Again," New York Times, October 21, 1921
  23. ↑ Paul Jordan-Smith, "Lee Shippey's New Book 20 Years in the Making," Los Angeles Times, January 25, 1948, page C-1 Access to this link requires the use of a library card.
  24. ↑ a b c d e f et g Library of Congress catalog
  25. ↑ New York Times review, January 6, 1935
  26. ↑ Old Library of Congress catalog
  27. ↑ Charlotte Dean, New York Times review, January 16, 1938

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