Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...UPTON SINCLAIR...
Results like this are not new to congressional investigations. The late Senator "Tom" Walsh knew that he was up against long odds in 1923. Washington reporters came to his aid - and brought the country with them. In fact, some of the questions that he used to uncover Harry Sinclair's operations were passed up to him on bits of paper by reporters. The rest is the history of Teapot Dome...
...Manhattan, CBS announced a new contract policy calculated to out-Hollywood Hollywood. The network signed a five-year contract with Actress Mary (Studio One, Suspense) Sinclair, was negotiating similar contracts with others in an effort to build a CBS star system. Said a network executive proudly: "While they're with us they'll be moored to television-they can't do any Broadway plays or movies...
...Clinton, Conn, as an apprentice. Between walk-on appearances and rounds of scene painting, she studied the Stanislavsky acting technique with Coach Lee Strasberg. "We'd be teapots, poison ivy and other things, for practice," says Barbara, "and I just loved it." She played bits with Ethel Barrymore, Sinclair Lewis and other visiting stars, and at the end of the season she even got a fat part of her own-Amy in Little Women. Says Barbara: "I got damn good notices...
Television's ubiquitous Milton Berle announced that after two years of spare-time writing he had finished a novel. "I'd read Sinclair Lewis and that fellow Ernest Hemingway," said Berle, modestly, "and I got to thinking. For a first novel, I think it's all right...