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...Married. Upton Beall Sinclair, 83, prolific (74 books) author whose muckraking, socialistic crusades made him the literary scourge of the haves (The Jungle, 1906) but tempered sufficiently to win him a Pulitzer Prize in 1943 (Dragon's Teeth): and Mary Elizabeth Hard Willis, 79, a widow; he for the third time, she for the second; in Claremont, Calif...
Flirtation & Favor. Berlin-born Fritz Behrendt's caricaturing skill, as well as his hostility to the Reds, had improbable origins. His father wanted him to be a pastry cook. But Behrendt boned up instead on Upton Sinclair and Karl Marx, spent part of his youth flirting with the left. He worked on road-building projects for Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia, took a free course at a Zagreb art school, moved to East Berlin on a job illustrating books for prospective young Communists. But after Stalin denounced Titoism, Behrendt became disillusioned...
Died. Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, 78, a Mississippi beauty who married muckraking Socialist Crusader Upton Sinclair in 1913, devoted the rest of her life to his myriad causes (vegetarianism, Prohibition and three campaigns for the governorship of California), his writing (75 books) and, finally, to keeping him "at home and out of mischief"; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Herself the author of sonnets and a sprightly autobiography, Southern Belle, she described "Uppie" as "a dual personality-a helpless child in his personal affairs and a brave and skillful fighter in the cause he loved...
Although he knows almost no English, Simonov has read a good deal of American literature in translation. While his reading seems to have centered around the more socially conscious novelists of the twenties and thirties--John Steinbeck, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis--his favorite contemporary author is Ernest Hemingway. "Hemingway writes about many of the same things I'm concerned with. He shows how war is a tragedy, something terrible and unnatural, and yet something which can bring out what is good and noble in people...
...Died. Upton Close (real name: Josef Washington Hall), 66, retired war correspondent, author and radio commentator, whose obsessive orientalism led to his dismissal from NBC in 1944 because he demanded that U.S. put Asia first on list of wartime targets (rather than Europe); in the collision of his auto with a train; near Guadalajara, Mexico. A prescient analyst of Far East developments in the 1930s. Close predicted Japanese war aims and the rise of Red China. In the 1940s he helped organize reactionary American Action, Inc., bitterly opposed the U.N. ("All this idealism is the bunk...