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This year is the 100th anniversary of Lewis' birth. A postage stamp will be issued from Sauk Centre this month, and in June there will be a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. The summer will see the annual Sinclair Lewis Days road race, beauty pageant and parade. The Sinclair Lewis Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary 3847 are selling popcorn at birthday events, and the Centennial Committee is offering souvenir T shirts, mugs and tractor hats. As Richard Lingeman writes in Small Town America: Lewis certainly would have "appreciated the transubstantiation of his indictment of Main Street into positive thinking...
This week we will give the Washington Monument another pat on the back. On Friday a clutch of history buffs will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its dedication. Perhaps its long struggle to maturity has given it special qualities of endurance. The monument has settled only about two inches in its century, though it was built perilously near a swamp. It is struck by lightning dozens of times each year. One crazed man scared everybody a few years ago when he threatened to bomb the structure...
...fact, McLaughlin could garner victory number 100 on the same evening that Carrabino-in his 100th game-could surpass. Donald Fleming as Harvard's highest scorer...
Barring disaster in his 100th game as a collegian tomorrow night Carrabino will become the Crimson's all-time leading scorer...
Most club members declined to comment on the fiscal status, but were eager to comment on the organizations's 100th anniversary party, which was held this weekend...