The Press: I Say Good-by . . .

Wells Lewis, 22 years old, will cast his first vote for a President of the United States on Nov. 5. A graduate of Harvard, son of Novelist Sinclair Lewis, author of one novel (They Still Say No), he is a young man who grew up under the New Deal. A practicing newspaperman, he works for the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat-Times as a news editor at $20 a week.

Last week Wells Lewis went to Philadelphia to have a look at the Republican National Convention. One morning his crusading stepmother, Dorothy Thompson, donated her column in the New York Herald Tribune to Wells...

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