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...million Americans who, since July 4, 1776, carried this luggage to continental conquest and world leadership, exhibit in their personal and public characters the dynamism of high tension between contrasts. This is not a quiet or consistent people. Its restless side is mirrored in Thomas Alva Edison and Upton Sinclair and the music of George Gershwin. This same people reveres Robert E. Lee, a Christian conservative rebel, and produces figures like Henry Ford, a radical businessman, and William Green, an archconservative labor leader. Of the 300 million Americans, none has shown in his own person the contrast, the tension...
...members of the Glee Club and Choral Society participating in the tour will give their first concert on Saturday night, March 28, at the Brookhaven Atomic Laboratories at Upton, L.I. The following afternoon at 3 p.m. they will sing at the Harvard Club of New York...
...Main Street is an unpublished introduction to Babbitt in which Lewis discussed his caricature of "the Tired Business Man . . . who plays third-rate golf and first-rate poker at a second-rate country club." But there are other, highly readable things: a sly reminiscence of a month spent with Upton Sinclair in a Utopian-socialist community; a group of sketches about his apprenticeship as a reporter ; a picture of Jack London trying to read Henry James and bursting out with a wail: "Do any of you know what all this junk is about...
...discussion of the real issues nor as a character assassination. It does not claim that Eisenhower has entirely avoided the inconsistencies of politicians. It merely seeks to show that the claim of Stevenson's forthrightness as opposed to Eisenhower's demagoguery will not stand up under scrutiny. Edward Upton...
...confusion of Lodge with Herter regrettably exists in Mr. Upton's mind, not in ours. Lodge indeed performed the introduction. 1200 residents of South Boston's Ward 6 and several score members of the working press managed to see what Mr. Upton apparently missed: that it was Herter ( a tall, spare man who doesn't look a bit like Lodge) who remained silent throughout the proceedings. As for the intentional slanting, it would be a difficult process at best. The CRIMSON is editorially oppose to Nixon, while it is supporting Lodge and Herter...