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...WORLD TO WIN (624 pp.)-Upton Sinclair-Viking Press...
Clio, Muse of History, is just a girl who can't say no. She has succumbed for the seventh time in six years to the same man-Upton Sinclair. But in their latest encounter, Volume VII of his novel-history of the 20th Century, 67-year-old Sinclair's powers seem to be failing...
...Salvation Army protested that TIME'S photograph of Evangeline Booth did not do her credit, and ED. said he would be happy to receive a better one. As usual, cantankerous Upton Sinclair was present-denying that he was, as TIME had said, a Bolshevik. He put TIME to bed with the Ku Klux Klan for seeming to support the candidacy of "the Klan Kandidate Koolidge." ED. allowed that the charge was baseless...
Married. Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, fiftyish flapper with an apparently perpetual patent of nubility; and Anthony Easton, fortyish, wealthy, British-born inventor (automatic radio distress signal); she for the fifth time (and last, she said), he for the second; in Manhattan...
Between times he wrote socialist tomes (War By Revolution). This year he published an Upton Sinclairish first novel, No Man Is An Island, whose title came from the same John Donne sermon as Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. He wants to write more novels, but "if you're asked by a Prime Minister and a friend to take on a job, the novels can wait...