Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite hints from individual Russians, there has been no official Russian promise to bring the dog back to earth, either dead or alive. Dr. John P. Hagen, director of U.S. Project Vanguard, thinks the Russians never intended to. Even if already dead, the dog cannot merely be pushed into space like the dog in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (see cut). Rocket "braking" is necessary. Dr. Hagen believes that the weight of Sputnik 11 is not enough to include the rocket fuel that would be needed to check the speed of the satellite and bring...
...Wyeth's own life was both swift and deep. Dead at 62, he left behind him a widened world of imagination and a family dedicated to the arts (besides Andrew, Wyeth's daughter Henriette and son-in-law Peter Kurd are distinguished painters). Soon after N. C.'s death, his son Andrew painted a picture of a boy running downhill. "For me," Andy says, "the bulges of that hill seem to be breathing-rising and falling-almost as if my father were underneath them...
...truly romantic as well as a wonderfully goofy story-the memoirs of a Southern belle who married a notorious radical. It is husband Upton Sinclair for whom the belle has now told all, and her revelations carry his strangely sentimental imprimatur ("My Southern belle remembers tenderly those dear dead days . . ."). The book, irresistible to students of U.S. life and manners, is the story of Mary's life with Sinclair, that strange, admirable, preposterous figure of a vanished America-a man with every gift except humor and silence...
...heart of Yankeeland, where Mary Craig Kimbrough went to Miss Finch's school in Manhattan, all sorts of things other than magnolia hung heavy in the air, notably suffragists, single-taxers and Socialists. It was a Red dead sea full of poor fish dreaming of a bookless future. The biggest catch in it was Upton Sinclair, most renowned of muckrakers. whose novel The Jungle had assaulted the citadels of the Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick...
Uppie's fight against the world was honorable, but his "industrial democracy" is as dead as Eugene Debs. His main battle-against poverty-was won not really by his Socialist martyrs but by the capitalist villains. Nowadays, the Sinclairs live in Monrovia, Calif, and at 79 Uppie is as convinced as ever that he is a power in human affairs. He notes proudly that he is the author of three million books and pamphlets "flowing into every country in the world." He keeps up the old reformer's unreformed habit of issuing letters-to-the-editor on every...