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...Upton Sinclair has included my husband, W. E. Woodward, in his dazzling list of writers who traveled "to their graves by the alcoholic highway [March 28]." My husband . . . was one week short of 76 years of age when he died, and the death certificate gives as the cause arteriosclerosis, cardio-vascular disease, in other words, old age. To that I would add overwork. Upton Sinclair's family history is so tragic that it is natural for him to think that anyone who takes a drink is an alcoholic. And while we are about it, neither Dreiser nor Sherwood Anderson...
From his uproarious retirement in California, aging (76) Author Upton (The Jungle) Sinclair, long one of America's loudest social consciences, took an ad in New Republic magazine to thunder a special plea. Sinclair, a lifelong teetotaler, was trying to unearth "a publisher who believes in abstention." In a "terrible but rigidly truthful" book titled Enemy in the Mouth, Abstainer Sinclair had "told the tragic stories of 50 alcoholic writers." Their suicide rate was ten times the U.S. norm, their lives 15 years less than the average span. After mentioning four dead drunkards in his own family (including...
Wrote he: "For three-quarters of a century it has been my fate to watch . . . a long string of friends . . . traveling to their graves by the alcoholic highway: Jack London, George Sterling, Sinclair Lewis, Edna Millay, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, under whose department CAB operates, advised the President to reverse the CAB decision, drop Northwest and give the route exclusively to Pan American. Pan American has lower Government subsidies than Northwest, and in the past two years carried more passengers to Hawaii -18,192 to 11,671 for Northwest. The President, who is interested in saving money on airline subsidies, decided to reverse CAB and signed a letter giving the route to Pan American alone...
BILLION-DOLLAR CLUB will soon have its 27th member: Sinclair Oil Corp., with an estimated 1954 gross income of more than $1 billion and profits of about $74 million, some $6,000,000 better than 1953, and equal to $6 per share...