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After taking a long look at the U.S. economy, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks last week predicted: "We have a good chance of putting up the best year on record," better even than the record year of 1953. Basis for his prediction was the first-quarter record. Said Weeks: "It is clear from preliminary indications that the gross national product in the first quarter . . . was larger than any previous first quarter in our history...
...wonder Upton Sinclair can't get his book, Enemy in the Mouth, published. He still thinks of alcoholism in terms of "John Barleycorn," a term that went out, if I am not mistaken, shortly after the turn of the century. I bet that Sinclair still goes to temperance lectures on the Demon Rum and plays the ballad, Father, Dear Father Come Home With Me Now on the old piano roll...
...surprising to learn from Upton Sinclair that Stephen Crane, the short-lived author of The Red Badge of Courage, is categorized as a tosspot. After many years of research into the affairs of Stephen Crane, I feel compelled to state that Crane's drinking, social or otherwise, seemed less than enthusiastic . . . Over a half century ago when A Derelict, a short story by Richard Harding Davis, appeared, it was whispered among the literati that Channing, the more than generous newspaper correspondent of the tale, was actually Stephen Crane. Davis denied the supposed inference . . . I hope it is not about...
...further word from Novelist Sinclair, see below...
...UPTON SINCLAIR...