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UPTON Sinclair, prophet extraordinary, has been telling the world what it was coming to for thirty years; and, despite his unorthodox economics and occasionally almost unbelievable naivete, he has usually succeeded in striking the gong with uncanny precision. His latest assumption of the role of seer, however, is not likely to add to his reputation as an oracle. "I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty," subtitled "A True Story of the Future," is an account of the manner in which one Upton Sinclair, novelist, captured the California Democratic primaries in August, 1934, was elected Governor in November...
From the opening gong in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Chocolate, his thickly greased hair shining almost grey above his ebony skin, hammered Canzoneri with his customary cruel grace. Canzoneri's flat, froglike face showed neither distress nor surprise. In the opening of the second round Canzoneri sent Chocolate reeling with a right to the temple. Chocolate, astonished, fought his way clear. A minute later Canzoneri doubled him over with a jab to the midriff, smashed a pile-driver right to his polished black jaw. Chocolate flopped flat on his face, his legs twitching. Gamely he dragged himself...
John Elliott, a foreign correspondent whose opinions are usually more read able than searching, rings the gong twice when he asserts that German Protestantism ran up against two inflexible tenets of Naziism: the elevation of nationalism above everything, and the sanctification of the German nordics ueber allies. That is true, quite true, but the antagonism is more deeply laid than that The path of Protestantism in Hitler's land is in close parallel with the fate of Christianity in Russia. No religion espousing spiritual individualism and political liberalism can hope to stand against the rush of the Religion...
...halting, all credulous alien is told that in the dark days of our republic, when irate heaven scorned the frontiersman and his libations, a very wicked gargoyle named the spoils system flourished in the land. Ah, alien--when he departed, and the curtains parted, there was Pendleton, kicking the gong around, and civil service reform was born full fledged into the republic. The England its birth was difficult, for all the midwifery of Macaulay and of Gladstone, but England is not the United States. The alien does not doubt, but he is not long a citizen before ugly suspicions grow...
...Chicago, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, fatter and more surly looking than last July when he lost his title to Primo Camera, climbed into a ring opposite clownish young King Levinsky. Thirty seconds after the gong surly Jack Sharkey was flat on his back for a count of seven. Soon his left eye was swollen, he moved groggily. Warming up, Levinsky floundered in fiercely, sometimes wildly beating the air, sometimes carefully beating Sharkey's pate. When Sharkey landed a nasty loin-blow, Levinsky returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump...