Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Love from Gracie, by Grace Hegger Lewis. Candid reminiscences by the first wife of Sinclair Lewis about life with the man who created Babbitt very nearly in his own image (TIME, Sept...
There was something of Babbitt in his creator, Sinclair Lewis, and there was something of Carol Kennicott in his first wife, Grace Hegger Lewis. Gracie was, Lewis once wrote, "all the good part of Carol." This lends an uncommon interest to what would otherwise be a commonplace biography-Grace's account of her years with...
Gracie Was a Lady. She met Harry Sinclair Lewis after he had come to Manhattan from his native Sauk Center, Minn., via Yale. It happened in 1912 when young Hal-his friends called him "Red" for his thin, gingerish thatch-saw a lady across a tearoom. It was Grace Hegger, daughter of a Catholic German-American art dealer. She had golden hair, a job on Vogue, and she brought out the romantic in Hal, who wrote her some of the goofiest poetry boy ever wrote girl...
...real Lewis - still drinking, restless and unhappy about God and man - Gracie has little to say except to quote his second wife, Dorothy Thompson: "Maybe Sinclair Lewis did not love God. But I am sure that God loves...
...DEAL involving sale of Southern Production Co.'s oil and gas properties to Sinclair Oil is in the works. If Southern Production stockholders agree, company will sell out for $42.5 million cash, plus an additional $65 million out of production over the next ten years...