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...third son of a stiffnecked Minnesota small-town doctor, whose approbation the writer always sought and never quite won. (Dr. Lewis wrote of his son in 1925: "It is certainly marvelous how such a bundle of nerves can pull in the money.") Christened Harry Sinclair Lewis and usually called Hal or Red, he was a tall, skinny, ginger-headed man afflicted all his life with a badly blotched complexion that set the seal on his ugliness. His physical unattractiveness made his youth lonely and affected his character and work. In this long and lovingly detailed biography, Critic Mark Schorer suggests...
...apartment. The doctor summoned Dorothy, by then living elsewhere, and with two male nurses and a straitjacket they carted Lewis off to a hospital. The whole time Lewis screamed, in frenzied parody of his wife: "You are sick, sick . . . Can't you take hold of yourself? . . . Hal, listen, please, this is Dorothy! Hear...
...pitching, not hitting, may be the key. In fact there are more damn good pitchers in this Series than you or I ever saw before. Count'em: Whitey Ford, Luis Arroyo, Ralph Terry, Bill Stafford, Jim Coates, Roland Sheldon, Hal Reniff, Jim O'Toole, Joey Jay, Bob Purkey, Jim Brosnan, Bill Henry, and Ken Johnson...
Harvard scored fifteen goals almost at will in the first half, eight of which came in the big first period. Between the Nyhan shot which opened the scoring at 2:15 and Hal Louchhelm's goal at 14:32, Harvard scored at the rate of approximately a goal every 90 seconds, as Watts, John Reese, and Captain Tadgh Sweeney each...
...Hal Louchheim, Joe Prahl, and captain Tadhg Sweeney will be running on Coach Bruce Munro's first midfield. This trio did a remarkable job against Williams Wednesday, constantly checking the opposition, and capitalizing on the Williams defense's decision to stay with the Crimson attack by scoring heavily themselves...