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Commentator Upton Close, whose fourth wife, Julia, lately sued him for divorce, complaining that he carried on with his secretary, sued back and made his own complaint. Julia was always interfering in his business affairs, said he, and, further, she had hit him a couple of times...
Zaslavsky knows little about U.S. newsmen except what he has read in Upton Sinclair, Morris Ernst or heard from occasional contacts with ex-PM Publisher Ralph McAllister Ingersoll. But he knows all about Zaslavsky. He wrote...
Only living U.S. authors to make the grade: John Steinbeck (a reissue of The Grapes of Wrath), Upton Sinclair (the Lanny Budd cycle), Ralph Ingersoll (Top Secret), Elliott Roosevelt (As He saw It), Erskine Caldwell, whose short stories about the seamy side of Southern life will top all other U.S. offerings with a 100,000-copy edition. Said the director of one Moscow publishing house last week: "We didn't see anything else that would interest Soviet readers...
PRESIDENTIAL MISSION (641 pp.) Upton SinclairViking...
Critics may scoff and historians may protest, but Lanny Budd, Upton Sinclair's supercharged Rover Boy, still roves the globe. Presidential Mission is the eighth and latest volume of the breathless Lanny-discovers- the-20th-century saga, which already runs to 2½ million words and seems good for at least as many million more...