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When a Russian thinks of an American novelist, he thinks of serious types, social historians like Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair. But the Wapshots' chronicler, John Cheever, 52, having updated the U.S. picture, was busy catching up on the Soviets too. In Moscow, at the end of a month-long tour of the Soviet Union, Cheever heard Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco, 31, recite his verse, after which Evtushenko took Cheever, another visitor, Novelist John Updike, and several pretty comrades off to a country dacha for some tonic research into suburban Soviet vodka parties. Cheever concluded that Evtushenko's lyric...
Joining Annison on the front line are Tim Baker, a senior, and a good sophomore named Budge Upton. The first mid-field are all lettermen: captain Walt Leach, Ron Ranes and Bob Hallagan...
FURS BY ASTOR by John Upton Terrell. 490 pages. Morrow...
...second quarter, however, the Elis wasted little time. In a play practically the mirror-image of the one that Akuffo scored on, Yale's John Upton got behind the Crimson defense and drove in on goalie Nat Bowdich to blast a shot by him for the score...
When the first volume of Frank Harris' My Life & Loves appeared in 1925, Upton Sinclair called it "the vilest book I have ever laid eyes on," and Sinclair Lewis declared that it was "a senile and lip-wetting giggle of an old man about his far distant filthiness." The book was banned in Britain and the U.S., but Harris correctly judged that "in this matter, the time spirit is with me." This week Harris' Life is published in full public view...