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...Sinclair Lewis was much more of a literary fellow than he let on. Between novels he wrote almost a million words of essays, sketches and reviews. In The Man from Main Street, two of Lewis' associates have combed together a miscellany of his nonfiction which contains its full quota of transient fluff but also proves that Lewis had a lively if undisciplined gift for criticism...
...dressmaking. Today little Madeleine is Mrs. Robert Henrey, au thor of several well-written books, mother of gifted Child Actor Bobby Henrey (The Fallen Idol). Her saga of life & death in Paris is an endearing, peculiarly feminine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism, a reminder that life has its quota of sentiment and that it can be conveyed without sentimentality...
...second main objection, Ramsey explained is that under former immigration laws many of America's most important physicists entered the country without being subject to the regular immigration quota. But under the McCarran Act this is impossible, with the result that the movement of foreign scientific talent to this country will slow down or cease...
...laws deal with revision of the quota system of immigrants, and banning of admission to the United States of any with questionable political records...
...quota is expected to include at least 85 percent of those enrolled in Military Science...