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...alleviate it with humanitarian but haphazard plans for economic reform; after a long heart ailment; in San Francisco. The son of a Civil War colonel, Downey started out as a Republican in Wyoming, migrated to Sacramento and the EPIC (End Poverty in California) movement of Author-Crusader Upton Sinclair, then as a regular Democrat supported Dr. Francis Townsend's scheme for old-age pensions and the "$30 Every Thursday" campaign...
...Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. The author piles up details with the enthusiasm of a squirrel in autumn and almost succeeds in burying a fascinating biography of the scourge of Babbittry, who, throughout his years of self-exile, never really left Gopher Prairie...
Married. Upton Beall Sinclair, 83, prolific (74 books) author whose muckraking, socialistic crusades made him the literary scourge of the haves (The Jungle, 1906) but tempered sufficiently to win him a Pulitzer Prize in 1943 (Dragon's Teeth): and Mary Elizabeth Hard Willis, 79, a widow; he for the third time, she for the second; in Claremont, Calif...
...Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. The author piles up details with the enthusiasm of a squirrel in autumn, and almost succeeds in burying a fascinating biography of the scourge of Babbittry, who, throughout his years of self-exile, never really left Gopher Prairie...
...pages (excluding check list and index), there are vivid scenes of triumph and disaster. There is the occasion, soon after the success of Main Street, when Lewis' crisply arrogant first wife, Grace Hegger, was introduced at a party as "Mrs. Lewis." Said she: "Please, Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. Even my dentist says, 'Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, spit...