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Like a good many other U.S. novelists who get a kick out of posing as intellectual primitives, 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...
...Street is an unpublished introduction to Babbitt in which Lewis discussed his caricature of "the Tired Business Man . . . who plays third-rate golf and first-rate poker at a second-rate country club." But there are other, highly readable things: a sly reminiscence of a month spent with Upton Sinclair in a Utopian-socialist community; a group of sketches about his apprenticeship as a reporter ; a picture of Jack London trying to read Henry James and bursting out with a wail: "Do any of you know what all this junk is about...
After counting up the number of Harvardmen slated for jobs in the higher Eisenhower echelons (a dozen, including President Dr. James B. Conant, Sinclair Weeks, Henry Cabot Lodge and Winthrop W. Aldrich), the Boston Globe gleefully recalled some of Eisenhower's own campaign oratory last fall in Louisville, when Candidate Ike said: "It is high time that we had real and positive policies in the world that we understand . . . We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words...
...this week Ike had rounded out his full Cabinet. The three final appointments: Michigan's Arthur Summerfield, chairman of the "Republican National Committee, to be Postmaster General; Boston's Sinclair Weeks, Republican finance chairman, to be Secretary of Commerce; President Martin Durkin of the A.F.L. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union to be Secretary of Labor (see THE NEW ADMINISTRATION...
...SINCLAIR WEEKS, 59, Boston businessman, finance chairman of the Republican National Committee...