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...their letters home, the Americans would remark that in Seoul the palaces face south, the city wall is all but gone, a tycoon is a yang ban, the favorite dish is shinsunro (beef, eggs, fish, chestnuts, etc.), the housewives wash their white clothes endlessly, and countrymen still wear miniature, translucent top hats, the traditional insigne of the married man. Very friendly people, too-everybody beaming and waving, and the children tagging along behind jeeps shrieking "Hello! hello...
Later (1925) came Arrowsmith, an onslaught on the mass production of doctors and mass practice and humbuggery of medicine, a romantic apotheosis of the medical scientist. Dodsworth (1929), the esthetic and amatory adventures of Samuel Dodsworth, automobile tycoon, and his wife in the cultured lands of Europe was a modern Innocents Abroad. Elmer Gantry (dedicated to Henry L. Mencken) was a rich caricature of a corrupt and ranting preacher (as he might appear to the village atheist). In The Man Who Knew Coolidge, a superb tour de force, Lewis used his remarkable talent for mimicking U.S. speech to let George...
Here Is Hugo. In the British-occupied zones, the blow fell on German industrialists. In a sweeping move to denazify the Ruhr industries, the Control Council arrested 40 leading officials of the powerful Rhine-Westphalian coal syndicate. Biggest fish in the British net: Tycoon Hugo Stinnes, 48, son of Germany's onetime greatest financier and powerful figure in the Ruhr coal and steel industries. Said the British: "Such men represent the worst in Germany . . . never hesitated to use their vast power to support dubious political movements . . . assisted in the growth of the National Socialist Party...
...Franklin Weber, 66, longtime (1920-1934) autocratic president of whopping, $500,000,000 Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., which he and Eugene Meyer organized after World War I as a holding and operating company surpassing any European competitor; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Son of a Socialist labor leader, Tycoon Weber had such a fetish for secrecy that no firm member could appear in Who's Who or have his picture taken for publication. Not until the New York Stock Exchange threatened in 1933 to remove Allied's 2,400,000 shares from its lists did the corporation...
...Right Way. Short, balding Robert Young is trying hard to become the biggest U.S. railroad tycoon since the Union Pacific's Edward Henry Harriman. Born in Texas, he worked in a Du Pont powder mill at 22½? an hour a short 20 years ago. Now he has a fortune of $7,000,000 and a show place in Newport. His admirers refer to him as "the emperor." (In the library of his Newport home hangs the David portrait of Napoleon...