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...Lost Without You" has all the ingredients of an American Pullman Company advertisement. In the outskirts of Rome on an abandoned cathedral organ balanced on its wobbliest side by an empty bottle of chianit wine, Hurrier found the atmosphere complete for his first chapsodie creation. The inspiration, he says, was back in Mesdeville, Pa, a certain Mary Margaret White...
...Journal announced itself horrified by the "cigaret-soaked indecencies" of the naughty '90s, and peddled the theory that tight-laced corsets were responsible for gallstones. It launched crusades for a "Safe & Sane" Fourth of July, for white blankets (to show dirt) and separate tooth-brushing basins in Pullman washrooms. But far & away its liveliest campaigns have been Fishbein's terrible-tempered crusades against quacks...
...Montparnasse cafe table in 1922 with Sinclair Lewis, "arch-progenitor ... of the stenographic, Pullman-smoker school of writing" [TIME, May 12], I do not remember that "every [American] expatriate eye turned icily away." Quite the contrary. Those eyes welcomed him as a prosperous bestseller, and with a few ragged introductions, the self-invited guests started pushing tables together. The saucers recording the prices of the drinks rose higher & higher, and so did the comments on the shameful commercialism of writing books like Main Street and Babbitt. Mr. Lewis was extraordinarily patient, but finally called for the bill-suddenly all chairs...
Join the Enemy. The Interstate Commerce Commission ended the long fight over the Pullman sleeping car service by approving the plan of 56 railroads to buy it. The price: $40,202,482. Railroader Robert R. Young, who had tried to buy the sleeper service, said that his railroads would join the other...
Nothing Can Equal Me. The idols of the expatriates-James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Valery, Andre Gide-were for the most part hardworking, serious writers who lived at a safe distance from their rambunctious disciples. When Sinclair Lewis - arch-progenitor, to the average expatriate, of "the stenographic, Pullman-smoker school of writing"-visited Montparnasse and sat himself down at a conspicuous table in one of the cafés, every expatriate eye turned icily away. "Little" magazines such as transition, Broom, Secession, and Gargoyle occupied a position of huge magnitude in the expatriate eye. Putnam tells the dismal...