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...Upton Sinclair was singled out for his "Dragon's Teeth," a novel published by an American and dealing with American life. "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's fantasy now running on Broadway, was given an award for "the American play, performed in New York, which represents in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage." Hanson W. Baldwin of the New York Times, was designated at the year's most distinguished correspondent on the basis of his South Pacific report. Either Forbes' "Paul Revere and the World Be Lived In" earned the prize for the best...
Unlike the 117 men who left Harvard for Devens exclusively, the contingent from the Second Service Command will be scattered into three separate induction centers. According, to where they live, they will be inducted at Upton, Dix, or Niagara, with those from greater New York being assigned to Camp Upton...
...UPTON SINCLAIR...
...Upton Sinclair, human beings are all essentially nice people who go right or wrong strictly according to their background. The history which they make or break is in no sense their own doing. It is the inevitable product of the infernal machine of the age, Capitalism. History and humanity alike might be set right if only Capitalism were retired in favor of Socialism, plus the large kindliness which Author Sinclair is so obviously filled with, and which half exonerates even his most villainous characters...
Both literature and life (in which Upton Sinclair is more warmly interested) are crueler and more disenchanted than he knows. The time may come when Upton Sinclair's novel and history will foam down the homestretch neck & neck. Meanwhile, charging along a few lengths behind history (this volume ends in 1937), calling the fouls in a loud, clear voice, and always polite to his horse, Upton Sinclair is one of his century's most gallant losers...