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WIDE Is THE GATE-Upton Sinclair-Viking...
...large part of the world which reads books, the immense world which functions behind the high woven wire fences of U.S. industry is almost as cryptic as the canals on Mars. First-Novelist Edward J. Nichols makes that world so lucid, so human, so interesting, that Sinclair Lewis' accolade seems none too generous: "I don't know any other novel that gets so deeply into this new and battling way of living that we call Industrialism...
Author H. G. Wells, who has spent most of his 76 years alternately digging up past history and building imaginary future Utopias, last week took a long and jaundiced look into his own future. As Sinclair Lewis did almost two years ago.* Wells published his auto-obituary...
Elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts & Letters was William Saroyan, gamin of dramaturgy, along with fellow litterateurs Samuel N. Behrman, James Gould Cozzens, John Gneisenau Neihardt. Now an Army private, bad boy Saroyan remained silent about the organization of which Sinclair Lewis once remarked that it "does not represent American letters today. It represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." Elected vice president: ex-bad boy Sinclair Lewis...
...living U.S. winners have shared 12½ prizes. Three are in literature: Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl Buck. Two are for peace: Charles Gates Dawes, Nicholas Murray Butler...