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...Booster of the Bourjoyce. Red of hair and red of face, nervous, cadaverous, loud, looking (in the words of one observer) "corrugated, modest and oafisha country-store type," Sinclair Lewis went on striding across the hills. But slowly, respectability, as it must to most rebels, came to Red Lewis. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which he had derided and denounced. His home town graciously forgave his insults, made him its favorite prodigal son. In a world of storm troopers and commissars, George Babbittand Red Lewisdid not look...
There is a tacit agreement among many Yale administrators that these visits be kept quiet and unpublicized, to prevent a possible student riot. This silence is also observed by the Yale Daily News--former booster of the Gundelfinger legend --which no longer prints his name in its pages...
Died. Samuel Candler Dobbs, 81, a director, onetime (1919-20) president and longtime (1892-1919) chief booster of the Coca-Cola Co.; in Lakemont, Ga. At 18, Dobbs came out of the Georgia backwoods, got a job as porter in the Atlanta drugstore of his uncle Asa Griggs Candler. When Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula from the druggist who invented it, young Dobbs became its first salesman, boomed it locally as "Delicious & Refreshing" instead of as a headache remedy, later began to make it a national habit by spending millions (over Candler's objections) on advertising...
...last year by a coal strike. Pittsburgh Consolidation, biggest U.S. coal producer, more than doubled its quarterly net to $4.2 million. Pennsylvania Railroad, which like all railroads reports monthly earnings, said that in September its net hit $4.4 million, v. a $2.8 million loss a year ago. One freight booster: the Korean...
...Booster Shot. In one way, 54-year-old Dimitri Mitropoulos is just the man to give the Philharmonic a booster shot. No prima donna, he has tried to win his musicians with consideration (he does not want to be dictator, he says, but president of a republic), and by giving them the first feeling of security they have enjoyed in years. Last week all of last season's players were back in their chairs...