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...Sinclair...
Died. Saxe Commins, 66, senior editor at Manhattan's Random House publishing firm, editor of three Nobel prize-winning U.S. writers (Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner); of a heart ailment; in Princeton, N.J. "The role of the editor," said Saxe Commins, "is to be invisible"; yet his hidden persuasion had profound effect on modern American literature. Friend and editor of William Faulkner since Mosquitoes in 1927, Commins in recent years cleared working space for the Mississippian in his Manhattan office and Princeton home, provided the right kind of stimulation for the novelist's production...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, the reformed protectionist who has led the Administration's Capitol Hill campaign for the five-year bill, called the committee changes "unacceptable," vowed that the Administration would "fight to get the legislation that we think is to the benefit of this country." Due this week: a battle on the Senate floor to repair at least some of the Finance Committee's damage...
While producers in some other industries were shaving prices (see below), oilmen last week felt confident enough to raise bulk gasoline prices on the Gulf Coast by ½? per gal. More increases are coming. Said a Sinclair Oil spokesman: "As the year goes on, higher refined prices will be inevitable because prices now are totally unrealistic in relation to costs...
...JAMES A. SINCLAIR Centerville...