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Sinclair Lewis produced a novel that outsold anything he had ever written, including much better novels. Kingsblood Royal, his 19th novel, a crudely black & white dramatization of racial prejudice in a Midwestern town, hit an exposed nerve of U.S. society. So did a rash of other race-relations novels (led by Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement). They were no doubt well-intended, but most were conscientious catastrophes, shrill and thin-blooded...
...Friendship Train (TIME, Nov. 17) rolled on last week, its chain of boxcars lengthening like a giant beanstalk. It rumbled down the eastern slope of the Great Divide and over Midwestern plains. At city and whistle stop alike, additional cars bulging with food were hitched up. At week's end, the train had 207 cars, and it had still not reached New York, where a huge end-of-the-line contribution for Europe's hungry was already waiting...
...same time Barclay announced the season's 25-game schedule, including a Midwestern invasion which will include such unprecedented opponents as Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan State during the Christmas vacation. Other teams who will face the Crimson quintet in their first post-war meeting are West Point, Bradley Tech., and Springfield...
...After five months of daylight saving, communities in 20 Eastern and Midwestern states went back to standard time...
...steep prices (25? a day, 50? Sundays, $8.50 a month) could now get "All the News That's Fit to Print" on the day when it was news. Next move planned by the Times, which flies 12,000 copies a day to 28 Eastern and Midwestern U.S. cities: air delivery all along the West Coast, and possibly home delivery...