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...College of the City of New York, he was graduated at 18. Then, "when I got to be 20, and had marriage in view, a desire to write serious things overwhelmed me." His first best-seller was The Jungle (1906), whose profits ($30,000) he sank in Socialist Helicon Home Colony at Englewood, N. J. Now he lives in Pasadena, Calif., with his second wife (he was divorced from the first). They have made "some rather startling experiments" in mental telepathy. Sinclair likes to play tennis, requires his secretary to be able to play a "rattling good game...
...become a hobo, O'Neill Jr. has gained distinction in col- lege, was tapped last May for Skull & Bones, won the Winthrop Prize for his scholarly acquaintance with Greek and Latin poetry (TIME, June 8). A poet of some campus repute, he has published verses in the Yale Helicon, undergraduate monthly. After the wedding bride & groom went boating on Long Island Sound on Father Green's yacht...
...Sinclair Lewis was born Feb. 7, 1885, in Sauk Center, Minn. His father, a country physician, had migrated from Connecticut, so at the proper age young Sinclair went to Yale. But at the beginning of his fourth year, he deserted college to become janitor for a socialistic Utopia called Helicon Hall which had just been founded in New Jersey by Upton Sinclair, radical novelist. Poor, Sinclair Lewis lived by writing children's verse and squib jokes for magazines until he obtained an assistant editorship on the now defunct monthly Transatlantic Tales. He left that position to seek another...
Author Upton Sinclair, 51, was born in Baltimore, educated at Manhattan's College of the City of New York, Columbia University. He has been married, divorced, remarried; has one son. He has founded: the late great Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, N. J. (Utopian colony) ; Intercollegiate Socialist Society (now League for Industrial Democracy); American Civil Liberties Union of California. He has been Socialist candidate: for Congress (N. J.); for Congress, Senate, Governor (Calif.). Fond of suing for libel, he does not always win. Author Sinclair Lewis, when a Yale undergraduate, admired Author Sinclair, left college to take care of Author Sinclair...
...England's Helicon," Professor Rollins, Sever...