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DRAGON'S TEETH - Upton Sinclair -Viking...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull's denunciatory response to the Japanese note. CBS's Major George Fielding Eliot, wits collected, aired the evidence (submarines in mid-Pacific) that Japan had planned the attack for at least two weeks, declared it a suicide squad assignment. NBC's Upton Close in San Francisco wondered over the air whether the Japanese Government had known its Navy was about to strike...
Then writers typified by Henry Adams and later Upton Sinclair developed to a "realistic facing of the problems raised b urban growth," he stated further. "Finally, following World War I, novelists became used to the phenomena of the city, which previously they had considered an ugly ogre in American life, and took it more or less for granted"; and men such as "Ernest Hemingway have since concerned themselves in their novels with the reactions of individual characters to special emotional situations" without resort to a stereotyped local color or urban setting...
...pinned a Distinguished Flying Cross on 6 ft. 7 in. Flight Lieutenant Roger Hunter. ∙∙ Naval Reserve Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. reported for active duty in Boston, was assigned to public relations work. ∙∙ Private Abner Powell Jr., Joe Louis' sparring partner, arrived at Camp Upton, L.I., sighed happily: "I'm kind of glad to get away from it for a while...
Ezra Stone, 22, radio's Henry Aldrich, started his Army training at Camp Upton...