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Results like this are not new to congressional investigations. The late Senator "Tom" Walsh knew that he was up against long odds in 1923. Washington reporters came to his aid - and brought the country with them. In fact, some of the questions that he used to uncover Harry Sinclair's operations were passed up to him on bits of paper by reporters. The rest is the history of Teapot Dome...
Shortly before his death, reported the New York Times Book Review, Sinclair Lewis had reached a decision: "America is too big for the Great American Novel. America's impossible to grasp...
Television's ubiquitous Milton Berle announced that after two years of spare-time writing he had finished a novel. "I'd read Sinclair Lewis and that fellow Ernest Hemingway," said Berle, modestly, "and I got to thinking. For a first novel, I think it's all right...
Before his death in Italy two months ago, Sinclair Lewis finished his 22nd and last novel and called it World So Wide. It is an awkward, rambling book, often close to a caricature of Lewis at his best. But it will be read for what it is: "Red" Lewis' valedictory to his fellow Americans...
Milord the Major. In World So Wide, Sinclair Lewis is again the Midwesterner who discovered the world and could not get over it. In one passage which almost recaptures the spirit of Dodsworth, Lewis observes: "Mr. Henry James was breathless over the spectacle of Americans living abroad and how very queer they are. . .But just how queer they are, Mr. James never knew. He never saw a radio reporter, never talked to an American Oil Company proconsul gossiping in the Via Veneto about his native Texas . . . Mr. James's . . . young American suitor, apologetic for having been reared...