Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sinclair Lewis once remarked that he wanted no ceremony at his funeral except the singing of "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." The committee of prominent citizens which last week was making plans for Sinclair Lewis' funeral in his home town cf Sauk Centre, Minn, did not find this suggestion appropriate. Even if they had, few of the Old Gang were left to remember the good old days when Sinclair Lewis was considered an unholy terror, the Scourge of Main Street, and hell's own foreign correspondent sent up to malign God's country...
...Civilized Barbarian. Sinclair Lewis' works have become period pieces. But in his prime, Lewis had no peer as a knocker of "homo Americanibus." Sinclair Lewis wrote mainly about one man, George Follansbee Babbitt, of Zenith, the Zip town. George Babbitt was a helpless materialist whose one standard was money, a quavering conformist whose only security was found in the back-slapping approval of his fellow Rotarians. He lived in physical comfort greater than kings enjoyed in the past, but he rarely stopped to enjoy it, for he was a Hustler. He was ashamed of his secret dreams...
...whose pipeline runs from fields in East Texas and Louisiana to Middletown, Ohio, will add 580 miles of 26-in. feeder pipelines to bring another 200 million cubic feet of gas a day to the Midwest. Cost: $42.3 million. To increase the supply of fuel oil in the Midwest, Sinclair Pipe Line Co. plans to build a 700-mile, 22-in. pipeline from Drumright, Okla. to its refinery in East Chicago. Capacity: 145,000 barrels a day. Cost: $48 million...
Truly great social satire produced by strong imaginative vigor are the chief traits which will make Sinclair Lewis work live as long as American literature is read anywhere three professors of English agreed last night...
Besides Clark, Whitney, Floyd, and Peabody, the Overseers' old committee on athletic sports included W. Barry Wood, Jr. '22, Alexander H. Bright '19, Victor O. Jones '23, Arnold Horween '21, Sinclair Weeks '14, and 12 others. It is not yet known whether any or these members, besides Whitney, will be retained in the new group