Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Something short of a masterpiece was Thunder Over Mexico, which Upton Sinclair and other backers got old Hollywood hand Sol Lesser to patch together from their cinematic mountain after Director Eisenstein quarreled with Sinclair and went huffing back to Russia (TIME, May 2, 1932). But U. S. radicals, who accused Sinclair and Lesser of sabotage, and other admirers of Director Eisenstein persisted in the belief that Critic Wilson was right. Their laments made the movie Eisenstein had originally projected as Viva Mexico the most celebrated incomplete work of art since Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. The news that...
...spotty, pre-convention coverage in most of the U. S. press. An exception (in the last weeks) was California: in that abnormal State, advertising aces in the J. Walter Thompson agency did as thorough a promotion job for Mr. Willkie as they had done in 1934 against Upton (EPIC) Sinclair...
Wells Lewis, 22 years old, will cast his first vote for a President of the United States on Nov. 5. A graduate of Harvard, son of Novelist Sinclair Lewis, author of one novel (They Still Say No), he is a young man who grew up under the New Deal. A practicing newspaperman, he works for the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat-Times as a news editor at $20 a week...
...turns up in sudden glamor from time to time, goes swimming with his son, instructs him in the munitions game, warns him again & again that the coming war will be "for profit." Father and son have tea with the Munitions King, Zaharoff, who oddly begins to talk like Upton Sinclair: "Suppose some nation should decide that its real enemies are the makers of munitions? Suppose that instead of dropping bombs upon battleships and fortresses, they should take to dropping them upon de luxe hotels...
...novel, World's End provides 740 pages of equable Book of Knowledge narrative told by a healthy, sincere and well-informed old gentleman. Puttering about his garden in Pasadena, Calif., dressed in an old pair of slacks and a flopping canvas hat, Upton Sinclair thought it all up afternoons and evenings while transplanting rosebushes or trimming his favorite fig trees. He has lived that way ever since he lost his EPIC campaign for Governor six years ago. In the mornings he glances at the papers "to see what has happened to the poor old Allies," then settles down...