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Your Jan. 22 appraisal of Sinclair Lewis as "not a great writer, nor even a very good one" may be confirmed by posterity, but it still seems to me that the author of Main Street, Babbitt and Arrowsmith was something more than a mere clever mimic and pamphleteer...
...News was on 5% of the time, but almost a third of it (station WOR-TV's Telefax program) featured typed news bulletins accompanied by unrelated music (e.g., a gay waltz was played during the report of Sinclair Lewis' death...
...Yale University Library, the late Sinclair Lewis left all his "books, manuscripts, pictures and private papers of every sort...
Condemnable Monopoly. Rotary could take in its stride the lampooning it got in Babbitt from the late novelist Sinclair Lewis (see p. 36), but the Vatican's blow was something else. Puzzled Rotarians in the U.S.Catholic as well as Protestantreacted with a stunned and unanimous "Why?" Some remembered a campaign against Rotary waged in 1928-29 by Rome's potent Jesuit magazine, Civiltà Cattolica. In many countries, the magazine charged, Rotary was altogether too friendly with the Masons, and was dangerously prone to the error of treating all religions as of equal value...
...Died. Sinclair Lewis, 65, novelist; first U.S. author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; of a heart ailment; in Rome...