Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...UPTON SINCLAIR Corona, Calif...
Architect Eero Saarinen's description of the castle at Brandeis University as "Mexican Ivanhoe" [Nov. 19] reminds me of Sinclair Lewis' equally unkind characterization of modernist structures as "glass-fronted hen-houses." The castle (see cut) was designed by my father, Dr. John Hall Smith, founder of Middlesex University, to house the classrooms and laboratories of its School of Medicine. More befitting the medieval grandeur of our castle are the lines of Wordsworth...
...Burnett (Harper; $3.50), castigates his spineless section chief for caving in to the pressure of office politics. On the surface, Author Burnett's tale, revolving about a big U.S. airline, is merely one more in the long list of novels, from Frank Norris' The Octopus to Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt and John Dos Passos' The Big Money, that show businessmen at their materialistic worst. Yet for all the angry talk of flint-hearted, fatheaded bosses, there is a big difference in Company Man that is symptomatic of the spate of new novels rediscovering the American business scene...
When Upton Sinclair was living in Mary McDowell's stockyards settlement house in Chicago and raking up the muck for his novel The Jungle, a trim little (5 ft. 4 in.) woman doctor named Alice Hamilton was living only five miles away in Hull House. Indiana-bred, raised in ease, and educated at Miss Porter's famed school at Farmington, Conn., Alice Hamilton was working at the turn of the century as a bacteriologist by day but did settlement work by night and on weekends. Thus she met countless victims of industrial hazards and eventually became the founder...
Died. Harry Ford ("Sinco") Sinclair, 80, poker-faced onetime Kansas pharmacist who parlayed $5,000 in insurance money (awarded after he shot off a toe while rabbit-hunting) into a successful string of wildcat oil wells, lost a wad (1914-15) trying to establish a third major baseball league, by 1916 founded the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., bought a string of racehorses (his Zev won the 1923 Kentucky Derby), in 1922 leased the Navy's Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming from Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall; in Pasadena, Calif. Buoyant Harry Sinclair survived when Teapot Dome blew...