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...Timers continued to grind out novels in 1943. John P. Marquand published So Little Time ($2.75), a sad, bland tale of a polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed...
TIME long ago recognized the tremendous and growing importance of the West and resolved, so to speak, that it would itself "go West and grow up with the country." So for years we have been calling national attention to all kinds of news unfolding in the West-from Upton Sinclair and Harry Bridges to Henry Kaiser, from Ham-and-Eggs and Hetch-Hetchy to Bonneville Dam. And percentagewise we now have more readers on the Coast than any other front-rank magazine...
...Burned 80,000 books valued at 300,000 pesos, including volumes by Upton Sin clair, John Dos Passes, Karl Marx, and the Dean of Canterbury's Soviet Power...
...Upton Sinclair, famed California socialistic novelist and pamphleteer, hinted last week that New Dealers were suppressing freedom of the press through paper allotments...
...Novelist Upton Sinclair, for Dragon's Teeth...