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...probably the only woman still living in the U.S. who can claim to have been described as "svelte" by Mrs. Jefferson Davis. Hers is a truly romantic as well as a wonderfully goofy story-the memoirs of a Southern belle who married a notorious radical. It is husband Upton Sinclair for whom the belle has now told all, and her revelations carry his strangely sentimental imprimatur ("My Southern belle remembers tenderly those dear dead days . . ."). The book, irresistible to students of U.S. life and manners, is the story of Mary's life with Sinclair, that strange, admirable, preposterous figure...
...Kimbrough went to Miss Finch's school in Manhattan, all sorts of things other than magnolia hung heavy in the air, notably suffragists, single-taxers and Socialists. It was a Red dead sea full of poor fish dreaming of a bookless future. The biggest catch in it was Upton Sinclair, most renowned of muckrakers. whose novel The Jungle had assaulted the citadels of the Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick of capitalism but leery of canned meat...
...time, she became not Sterling's but Upton Sinclair's goddess. After a messy divorce from his first wife, Sinclair married his belle in 1913. Mary Sinclair still regards it as a matter for wonder that a granddaughter of the Confederacy should have latched onto a radical like Upton. In this wonder lies the secret of the book's charm. She never seems to realize that the romanticism of early Socialism and that of the Old South were akin. However different the windmills they were tilting at, both Mary and Upton were American romantics. Besides, most social...
...House soccer yesterday, Adams defeated Winthrop 3-0, scoring all their goals in the last ten minutes of play. Upton Brady, Charles Taylor, and Fred Vinton each booted one of the Gold Coasters' three points. Dunster came from behind to squeeze by Leverett 2-1, with Frank Lowewald netting both the Funsters' goals...
Pinfold, at the moment, is cracking up. Nothing serious, of course; it is just that a neighbor, Reggie Graves-Upton, has come into possession of a box designed (like Wilhelm Reich's "orgone box"-TIME, June 4, 1956) to measure "Life-Waves." Pinfold gets the odd notion that Graves-Upton's box is measuring him. He imagines things, and Mrs. Pinfold presently decides that her husband needs a long sea voyage to cure him of "the fashionable agonies of angst...