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PART 4 PACE 13 CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE: APRIL 8. 1951. 6 BOOKS How to Write Short Stories, Mysteries, Articles BOOKS ALIVE (VD BY VINCENT STARR ETT (TZ) THREE SEALED ENVELOPES sent home from Europe by Sinclair Lewis, shortly before his death, have occasioned considerable speculation at Random House. The writer's instruction to hold them in the safe, presumably for his return, suggests that he attached Editor Thank; tin wyv Palmer for Success "I had never written a Una before starting the Palmer course, yet after a lew fessoas I started to market my articles. Soon I couldn't keep up with the demand, and mow I have more assignments than time to cover." Hugh G.

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Naturally it will be free of the sickly complex which hates the lyrical, charming, demure aspects of beauty, and perversely proclaims ugliness as alone noble, the natural but jejune revolution against the prettifying of the machine made commercial tale. The writer of such novels will be slated as low and sordid. He will not depict a life that approaches the ideals of a Hartford insurance agent. He will describe it as a roaring, thundering, incalculable, obscene, magnificent That was Lewis' ideal novel, as he once described it in an enthusiastic comment on John Dos Passos' "Manhattan Transfer." Lewis didn't write such a novel, nor did Dos Passos; nor, it may be ventured, has anyone else written it. But Lewis would have liked to write it, and a number of times he tried to do it with everything he had.

It is still a pretty good prescription for the Great American Novel. Well, as nearly as I can reconstruct it from several versions, that noses and roses thing asked for by Anne Siewers, a few weeks ago, goes like this: CARELESS LISTENER REGRETS When God gave out brains, I thought He said trains, And I missed mine. When God gave out looks, I thought He said books, And 1 didn't want any. When God gave out noses, I thought He said roses, And I asked for a red one. When God gave out legs, I thought He said kegs, And I ordered two fat ones.

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