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Sued for Divorce. Sinclair Lewis, 56; by Dorothy Thompson, 47; in Woodstock, Vt.; grounds: willful desertion in 1936. They married in London in 1928, a year after she divorced Hungarian Writer Josef Bard, a month after Lewis was divorced by Writer Grace Hegger. Living apart for the last several years, they appeared in opposite corners of a public ring last summer when Interventionist Dorothy learned Lewis was plugging America First. Of his wife Lewis cracked to a Chicago lecture audience in 1939: "She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...
When Air Marshal Italo Balbo was shot down in Libya last year, there were persistent rumors that he was killed on orders from Italian higher-ups (TIME, July 8, 1940). Correspondent Gordon Sinclair of the Toronto Star last week quoted Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, R.A.F. Commander in Egypt at the time...
Last week in Sapulpa, Okla. a judge instructed the Sinclair and Minnehoma oil companies to pay to the heirs of Lete Kol-vin $7,413,286 in cash, and to surrender the 160 acres of Oklahoma land, a gasoline plant, and 15 producing wells. Half of Lete's fortune went to her 65-year-old half sister. The other half went to Willie and Floyd Mayweather, nephews of Lete's husband...
...meeting in Chicago, where he knew he would meet Columnist John Kieran, Information Pleaser. Nine-year-old Gerard, who wrote a scathing review of Kieran's Nature Notes (TIME, April 14), took it all back, said he really thought the book was wonderful. ∙∙ In Manhattan, Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis made his Broadway debut as director and angel of the season's quickest flop: one performance. Critics called Good Neighbor "immensely dull." Said stage-struck Lewis who lost $25,650: "They were right. When you get that universal a comment there is no use fighting...
...over the Continent, Wellington, Hampden, Whitley bombers dropped miniature earthquakes on Stuttgart, Stettin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and other towns. A British raid on Boulogne was so heavy that it shook and boomed across the Channel, could be heard plainly in British coastal towns. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair dreamily heralded a British blitz "to prepare the way for advance of the Allied Armies into Germany...