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Reminiscing about a meeting with Sinclair Lewis in London in 1922, Biographer Charles Breasted, writing in the Saturday Review, recalled asking the late author whether Main Street, the literary rage of that day, was autobiographical. Lewis'candid admission: it was. Breasted wanted to know whether the novel's heroine, Carol Kennicott, was a self-portrait. Startled at one of the few correct guesses about Carol's identity, Lewis replied with what could well have served as his own gloomy epitaph: "Yes, Carol...
...program designed to give a "nudge" to slow sections of the economy, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks last week announced a speedup in Government spending for military procurement, highway and airport construction and shipbuilding. A two-year, $385 million program of shipbuilding, said Weeks, will be the biggest peacetime project of its kind in history. In addition, the Maritime Board announced a $65.8 million deal with American President Lines,* to include construction of two new passenger-freighter vessels, purchase of four Mariner ships from the Maritime Administration and of two luxury liners (the President Cleveland and President Wilson) now operated...
...rathskeller of Milwaukee's Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., a Koda-chrome-Color movie had its premiere last fortnight. The cast included Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, Commentator Robert Trout, and a score of Negro actors. The movie's title: The Secret of Selling the Negro...
...literary world of the '203 and '303, the most comical character on the U.S. scene was the hale & hearty joiner who slapped his fellow businessmen on the back at service-club luncheons and addressed total strangers as "Tom," "Dick" or "Harry." Sinclair Lewis called him "Babbitt," H. L. Mencken called him "boob," and many another writer dismissed him simply as "a Rotarian...
...members of Congress, such as former Senators Richard Nixon, John Foster Dulles, and Sinclair Weeks, and onetime Representative Sherman Adams, are at the top level of the Eisenhower Administration. Others have lesser jobs in the Government and the Republican Party; Washington's Harry Cain is a member of the Subversive Activities Control Board; New York's Len Hall is chairman of the G.O.P. National Committee; New York's James Mead is on the Federal Trade Commission. Still others hold important Government jobs outside Washington; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. is U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (his, predecessor...