Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack. Indeed, I defy anybody to pick a more offensive aggregation." So wrote massive, loudly liberal Columnist Heywood Broun, old New York World sports reporter, in his syndicated column, picking his own 1937 All-America Stuffed-Shirt Eleven. Eliminating a left wing entirely, Leftist Broun put both Sinclair Lewis and Boake Carter at right guard, Dale ("How to Win Friends") Carnegie at quarterback, New York's bumbling Senator Royal Samuel Copeland at fullback. "Because he has a tendency to block the attack of his own side," Mr. Broun, against the advice of friends, made...
...still goes on. Last fortnight, Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis strode jerkily onto a platform in Manhattan, and with hands in pockets, galvanic shrugs and many a wisecrack, proceeded to deliver his eighth lecture of the season. An explosive, rapid-fire attack on stage censorship, Reds, Fascists and Ernest Hemingway, the lecture was entitled It Has Happened Here. Next month he will repeat his performance in Albuquerque, N. Mex. That same week in Upper Montclair, N. J., Salvador de Madariaga will be going on about The Future of Liberty, and Ludwig Lewisohn will be holding forth on books. In Grand Rapids...
...profitable sideline. But rates have changed since Emerson was glad to speak for $5 and oats for his horse. Last month H. G. Wells spoke seven times, made $21,000. Next spring Thomas Mann will get $15,000 for his 15 lectures. For the 23 lectures on Sinclair Lewis' crowded schedule, he will get $23,000. Although their agent makes the rates of such headliners as Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt and Aldous Huxley a carefully guarded secret, their net return will probably not equal the $33,000 that Dale Carnegie will be paid for his 55 inspirational talks...
...inferiority and fear. Most astonishing news to hard-bitten lecture agents was the spectacular success of Dorothy Thompson, whose intense, nervous speeches recapitulate the ideas she dins into her daily column in the New York Herald Tribune. Giving only eight lectures at an undisclosed figure, Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) last week had turned down 700 invitations to speak, at fees ranging up to $1,000 per lecture...
...three-day Congress in the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom. It will represent the greatest aggregation of white-tied wealth and power ever assembled under one roof. Scheduled to decorate the head tables along with such non-capitalists as Eddie Rickenbacker, Bishop Manning, Bruce Barton and Sinclair Lewis, are such household industrial names as Owen D. Young, Lammot du Pont, Packer Gustavus F. Swift, Soapman S. Bayard Colgate, Oilman William Stamps Parish, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Steelman Eugene Grace. Copperman Louis Shattuck Gates and many and many another manager of major corporations. Even the rank & file clustered...