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...experienced operations man was what the Sinclair Oil Corp. wanted-and what it got last week by naming President Edward L. Steiniger, 58, as chief executive officer, succeeding P. C. Spencer, 67. Steiniger made his reputation in the tough Venezuelan fields, where during one three-year period (1941-44), he brought in 105 wells out of 108 attempts. Intense and quick-witted, he believes in studying countries where the company drills, once delighted Haile Selassie with his knowledge of Ethiopia. Under Steiniger, Sinclair will spend a major part of this year's planned $182 million capital expenditure to step...
UNIVERSITY: Sinclair Lewis plus Hollywood now equals two Academy Awards. Elmer Gantry is the movie: and if it's more Eastman Color than scandolous revivalism, why no one cares overmuch. For, in truth, Elmer proves to be a very entertaining and lavishly constructed film. Burt Lancaster (who copped one of those towards) is a share hypocrite indeed at Sect Leader; and Jean Simmons and Shirley Jones (the other Award reciplent) are admirable as his womenfolk. Daily...
Died. Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, 78, a Mississippi beauty who married muckraking Socialist Crusader Upton Sinclair in 1913, devoted the rest of her life to his myriad causes (vegetarianism, Prohibition and three campaigns for the governorship of California), his writing (75 books) and, finally, to keeping him "at home and out of mischief"; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Herself the author of sonnets and a sprightly autobiography, Southern Belle, she described "Uppie" as "a dual personality-a helpless child in his personal affairs and a brave and skillful fighter in the cause he loved...
American business and the U.S. Government must meet the Russian economic threat by joining in a search for "new horizons" for private investment abroad, according to a panel discussion last night with Sinclair Weeks '14, former Secretary of Commerce...
ELMER GANTRY. Burt Lancaster, faultlessly directed by Richard Brooks, roars down the sawdust trail like hell on wheels in this trashy, flashy but grandly entertaining cinemadaptation of the classic Sinclair Lewis satire on that old-time religion...