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DOROTHY AND RED, by Vincent Sheean. Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis were mismarried for 14 years. He drank like a school of fish; she harassed him by conducting stifling salons. She also recorded all the grim details in her diary, and whatever she missed Old Friend Sheean provides in a running commentary...
...Novelist Sinclair Lewis and globe-trotting Dorothy Thompson made a glamorous couple, but their marriage was stormy and it ended in a bitter divorce. Miss Thomp-on recorded every detail, from the giddy courtship to the last wrathful grape, and Sheean squares the famous family circle with some superfluous amateur analysis...
...beginning of her later fame, and at the bitter end of her marriage to Josef Bard, a sponging Hungarian cad whom she had mistaken for a genius. Despite the presence of a former Prime Minister of Hungary, the "momentous guest" was a 42-year-old American novelist-Sinclair Lewis. After dinner, the guest wasted no time, cornered his hostess and asked her to marry him (he neglected to mention that he was already married). Replied Dorothy: "I don't even know you, Mr. Lewis...
...surveyed 26 industries, found earnings were higher than in last year's third quarter for all but cement companies, chain groceries and papermakers. Spectacular successes were noted by airlines (Pan Am and TWA both had record earnings). Oil companies, notably those with major overseas operations, showed brisk earnings; Sinclair alone had a 76% rise to $45 million for the first three quarters...
When the first volume of Frank Harris' My Life & Loves appeared in 1925, Upton Sinclair called it "the vilest book I have ever laid eyes on," and Sinclair Lewis declared that it was "a senile and lip-wetting giggle of an old man about his far distant filthiness." The book was banned in Britain and the U.S., but Harris correctly judged that "in this matter, the time spirit is with me." This week Harris' Life is published in full public view...