Word: upton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also announced yesterday the four winners of the Class of 1924's scholarships. They are Stuart G. Flerage, Jr. '52 of Cincinnati and Lowell House, Forest W. Hansen '53 of Racine, Wisconsin, and Eliot House, Richard T. Loring, Jr. '51 of Duxbury and Leverett House, and Edward K. L. Upton '53 of Marblehead and Dudley Hall...
Died. Michael Williams, 73, Roman Catholic author ( The Shadow of the Pope, The Catholic Church in Action), founder and first editor (1924-38) of the Commonweal; in Hartford, Conn. Onetime free-thinking crony of Socialist Upton Sinclair (they wrote a book together, Good Health and How We Won It), Williams returned to the church in 1915, became one of its ablest lay spokesmen...
Writing in the New York Times Magazine, peripatetic Playwright Tennessee Williams explained that "the American artist travels [because] America is no longer a terribly romantic part of the world, and writers, all except, possibly, Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis, are essentially romantic spirits...
Aging (71) Novelist Upton (The Jungle) Sinclair feared that an H-bomb attack would destroy his 40-year hoard of literary papers. In a letter to the Saturday Review of Literature, he offered the collection to "some library or museum" for safekeeping. Where is the treasure now? "I wouldn't tell for a million dollars...
...Upton Sinclair; France's Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, ex-Communists André Malraux and André Gide. First place went to Steinbeck, who "jumped from the camp of progress and love of humanity into the camp of frantic reaction, barbarism and cannibalism...