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Culbert Olson was helped to the Governor's chair by enthusiastic support from the remnants of Upton Sinclair's EPIC following, Ham 'N' Eggers and from organized labor, to whom he had promised the pardon of labor's martyr, Tom Mooney. He since infuriated the Ham 'N' Eggers by turning down their fantastic pension plan, sponsoring one of his own. When war came, others were impatient with his dalliance: for months he bickered with the legislature over providing an adequate State Guard...
...Soccer. Today strangers who meet Shostakovich for the first time find him shy, serious, scholarly. At parties or among musicians, he unbends, jokes, out-drinks his companions. He likes automobiles, fast driving, U.S. magazines, reads the U.S. authors who most appeal to Russia-Mark Twain, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair. Strictly a city man, he dislikes dachas (Russia's summer bungalows), and komaryi (Russia's multitudinous mosquitoes...
...lively soldier show that Irving Berlin created and Uncle Sam produced. A few months ago the same team decided to do a similar job, but on a far bigger scale. Yip just grew, wore anybody's old clothes, finally netted $83,000 for visitors' barracks at Camp Upton. But This Is The Army was carefully nurtured, shopped all the nation's army camps for talent, wangled a truckload of brand-new finery. Before it is through, it hopes to raise $1,000,000for Army Emergency Relief...
...Germans considered it "a hell" to have had Jewish and Negro guards at Camp Upton, Long Island...
...Hope fashion. Continuing in a light, though military vein, there will be brief non-official, non-technical talks by Lieutenant-Commander T. A. Collins, former Marine flier who is now senior member of the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board of the First Naval District, and Captain William F. Upton Jr., director of morale and recreation at Camp Edwards...