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...England called coffeehouses "seminaries of sedition," and in France they were just that. Rousseau, Voltaire, Robespierre, Marat and Danton all frequented coffeehouses, and from one of them, the attack on the Bastille was launched. William Penn loved the stuff so that he paid $4.68 a Ib. for it. Upton Sinclair, on the other hand, hated coffee SO deeply that when Harry (Tramping on Life) Kemp was about to move out with Sinclair's first wife, the aggrieved husband, according to Kemp, found her percolator and thrust it upon her lover, saying:"You can take this to your goddess, this...
Farewell to Beasts. "Company allegiance is a fact," writes Father Purcell. In a sample of 202 workers, 187, or 92%, showed more or less "favorable" attitudes toward Swift & Co., a great change since Upton Sinclair wrote in sorrow and anger (in The Jungle, 1906) about the company-hating "human beasts" in the Pack-ingtown jungle. Of the rest, 14 were neutral; only one man's attitude was downright "unfavorable...
...make Long Island the world's atom-smashing capital. This week the Atomic Energy Commission announced that it will finance an "alternating gradient synchrotron" to shoot out beams of protons with energies up to 25 "bev" (25 billion electron-volts). It will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, L.I. Probable cost: 20 megabucks ($20 million). Completion time: five to six years...
Strauss and Upton both pleaded not guilty to the charge of disturbing the peace, and since there were no witnesses in court, both men were acquitted. But Strauss was placed on probationary status. If he is arrested between now and Dec. 3, he will be either fined or put in jail...
Strauss and Upton were arrested at 3 a.m. Saturday morning as the band stopped off an awakened New Haven on its way to New York City. Both men were booked and charged with disturbing the peace. They were let off on bail at that time...