Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...UPTON SINCLAIR Monrovia, Calif...
...Finance Minister's Parliamentary Assistant Jimmy Sinclair remembers now that he did not have much hope of success when he was sent to Yugoslavia last year. His mission was to collect a debt ($226,000) owed to Canada for postwar relief. To his pleased surprise, Marshal Tito amiably agreed to pay back two-thirds of what Yugoslavia owed. He also wowed Sinclair with his coin-trick joke about Stalin...
...dropped the coin from between his index fingertips; that, he explained, represented the ready generosity of the U.S. Then, still holding his fingers in the same position, Tito pressed the coin between his third fingers. He tried but could not draw them apart; the coin could not be budged. Sinclair, when he, too, tried the trick, found it impossible to part his own third fingers. "That," said...
Married. Michael Lewis, 21, son of the late novelist Sinclair Lewis and Columnist Dorothy Thompson, recent graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; and Bernadette Nanse, 21, French socialite; in Woodstock...
...think Mr. Sinclair errs in condemning the "er." It is the only human sound left in otherwise inhumanly machine-perfect performances. Especially in a program like Invitation to Learning, the "er" is a refreshing reminder of the times when people used to translate their thoughts into words...