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...Kemper obviously had more on his mind than economy. It was the bipartisan foreign policy. Kemper had been much under attack as an isolationist (in 1941, as president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he opposed lend-lease). His Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. had sponsored Isolationist Upton Close's broadcasts during...
...What's more, the modernists are leaving their customers no place to hide. Surrounded by transparent walls, the harried dweller in the Neutra home must seek total privacy-if he is old-fashioned enough to desire it-in the confines of his bathroom. HOWARD B. UPTON Tulsa, Okla...
Died. Professor Hyman H. Goldsmith, 42, topflight atomic physicist, wartime staffer at Chicago's Manhattan Project (which developed the world's first atomic pile), since 1947 in charge of the Brookhaven (Upton, N.Y.) National Laboratory's information and publication division; by accidental drowning; near Windham...
...Shepherd, Speak!-the tenth (and "I hope the last," says Upton Sinclair) of the Lanny books-the author has brought his hero's adventures up to date. Apparently working on the reasonable assumption that what has pleased 1,350,000 U.S. and English customers will please them again, Sinclair sticks close to his well-exercised formula. He thrusts Lanny into every important event in the mid-1940s, records the portentous if often empty conversations of the powerful, and buttresses his story at weak points with solid slabs of historical summary...
...critics, who have scoffed at the first nine Lanny books for their cardboard characterizations and their comic-strip simplifications of history, will hardly think better of No. 10. Such objections will continue to leave Upton Sinclair unmoved, since he has magnificently succeeded in what, after all, he set out to do: to write Upton Sinclair's version of history and get millions of people to read it. (Lanny, incidentally, his faith in the future undimmed, decides to devote himself henceforth to humanitarian journalism...