Word: arrowsmith
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Professor Emeritus Henry van Dyke of Princeton, commenting on the award of the Nobel prize in literature to Novelist Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), said: "They handed Lewis a bouquet, but they gave America a very backhanded compliment." Commented Novelist Lewis: "I am particularly honored that the attack came from where it did." Then he sailed for Sweden to receive his $46,350. Said he: "Naturally I felt that some day I would get this recognition, but I did not know when. I should be just as glad if Eugene O'Neill had received...
...those who, like the prototype, were ever zooming for the Home Town, a Big-Business Administration, private real estate developments, the Rotary club or God. Last week Realtor Babbitt zoomed Author Lewis himself into an unanticipated world prominence. Aiding were heroes of three other Lewis books - (Mar tin) Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry (Sam), Dodsworth, accepted by the same vast public as typical of the U. S. scientist, prelate and minor tycoon, respectively. But Babbitt remained foremost among them as a representative of U. S. citizenry and U. S. literature, having been more translated* and being more lipworthy in name. George Follansbee...
...When Yale's Sinclair Lewis was preparing to write Arrowsmith, novel of doctors and medical researchers (TIME, March 23, 1925), Dr. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters, Hunger Fighters) traveled with him, gave him his scientific information. They decided to make bacteriophage Martin Arrowsmith's research goal. A climax of the story comes when the phage is tried out against an epidemic of bubonic plague. But Yale's Professor d'Herelle was not Arrowsmith's prototype. Born in Montreal (1873), he studied and worked abroad, joined Yale in 1928, speaks with a decided French accent...