Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimate of "that old village atheist", Sinclair Lewis, erred only in regard to height. Whereas some of these new "churches" [Sept. 19] reflect a Middle Dow-Jones influence, or what's new in well-designed factories, others resemble surrealistic storm cellars...
...failure. As hard-living Novelist Jack London, Actor Lloyd Nolan seemed physically too slight for the role but in the essential scenes he created a sense of force and fury that lifted the play over its hurdles. Mercedes McCambridge played London's chillingly correct sister, and Mary Sinclair was excellent in her despairing efforts to be the proper wife for a national hero. The play's simple story line-how a proud man pulls down his world and himself-just missed a Greek starkness. The ending had imagination as the camera panned down a row of shelves...
...Secretary Snyder announced that Vice President Nixon, members of the President's family, and most of the Cabinet had telephoned Denver, and that no one planned to come to Denver. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks recalled that he himself had recovered from a heart attack a dozen years...
...serve in the Government without pay. Trustbuster Stanley Barnes is not satisfied with the compromise worked out last summer, whereby a businessman can run a key division but make no policy decisions (TIME, July 18) ; Barnes will attack the idea, especially in the Commerce Department, recommend that Secretary Sinclair Weeks either use businessmen strictly as advisers or replace them with salaried division chiefs...
Died. Donald Clifford Brace, 73, co-founder (1919) and president (1942-48) of Harcourt, Brace & Co., publisher of the early Sinclair Lewis, Carl Sandburg, Katherine Anne Porter, T. S. Eliot; after long illness; in Manhattan...