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Thick-lipped, pat-standing Republican George Upton Harvey, Borough President of Queens (only big Republican borough in New York City), who last month swore he would move to Canada if Roosevelt won, looked over local election returns showing a Republican plurality, decided: "The people of Queens want me to stay. ... I can take it. They need me here now more than ever...
Proving ground for Bishop Sheil's plan has been Chicago's smelly, run-down "back of the yards" district (subject of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle), whose packinghouse population of 65,000 is almost 95% Catholic. Fifteen months ago, with the bishop's blessing, friendly, chesty Jewish Sociologist Saul Alinsky set up a Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council. Aim: to reconcile the potentially conflicting interests of business, labor, politics and religion in a crowded, depressed industrial area. Typical Council results to date: C. I. O. leaders helping the Chamber of Commerce in its membership drive...
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...
...casual, 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...
...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...