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Former News Editor and Radcliffe Bureau Chief The CRIMSON, John Sack refuses to take this book seriously, steadfastly muttering that "it is a startling revelation of conditions within the meat industry . . . Second only to Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle. He is selling himself short. Sack's Butcher is a mountain, a treacherous Andean mountain given to icefalls and rotten ledges of snow. He tells how a pair of students--members of a Katzenjammer Kids mountaineering expedition from Harvard and Stanford--climbed that mountain in the summer of 1950 and very nearly lost their lives in the process...
Sullivan forsook the law in 1904 when, outraged at the quackeries of patent medicines, he wrote a Collier's article that helped create a national furore, and along with a mighty push from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, forced Congress to pass...
...dean let it be known that he had started life as a mill hand at 13 shillings a week. He never bothered to tell them that his father owned the factory he worked in or that he rested nightly from his labors in a large estate known as Upton Grange in Macclesfield...
Robert H. Williams of Santa Ana, Calif, has still another pitch. Williams, onetime ghostwriter for Columnist Upton Close, publishes a monthly newsletter, Williams Intelligence Summary. In mid-1951, he carefully trimmed a 1945 news photo of four Allied generals toasting the Allied victory in Europe, at which time Russia's Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov presented Eisenhower and Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery with Russian victory medals. The Williams version left Ike and Zhukov alone in what was intended to look like a suspiciously friendly pose (see cut). Williams printed and is still circulating the picture with the caption...
...means a record. Another reader (a pro named Upton Sinclair), for instance, has had 18 letters published in TIME, starting with the Nov. 10, 1924 issue...