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Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, by Upton Sinclair. A California goat-girl resists almost all temptations and marries into the Big Rich; a retread of Richardson's 18th Century novel in which Sinclair gives his old aversion to wealth a fresh spin (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Jun. 5, 1950 | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, by Upton Sinclair. A California goat-girl resists almost all temptations and marries into the Big Rich; a retread of Richardson's 18th Century novel in which Sinclair gives his old aversion to wealth a fresh spin, mostly good-humored (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...Meter. In Upton, England, the Rev. Sidney Clarence Jones warned that henceforth any bride who keeps her impatient groom waiting at the altar will be fined a shilling (14?) a minute after the first 5 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...pensions. Even the long-standing railroad plans faltered and had to be taken over by the Government.* When thousands of elderly workers finally realized the chilling fact that they would probably never find jobs again, a spate of fuzzy-brained solutions sprang up, e.g., the Townsend Plan, Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. (End Poverty in California). It was partially as a counterattack to them that federal Social Security-handled by the Government and paid for by both the employer & employee-was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: OLD AGE PENSIONS | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, by Upton Sinclair. A California goat-girl resists almost all temptations and marries into the Big Rich; a retread of Richardson's 18th Century novel in which Sinclair gives his old aversion to wealth a fresh spin, mostly good-humored (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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