Lionel Rolfe Literary L.A., Chronicle Books: San Francisco, 1981, 102 pp., 1916
"[Upton] Sinclair came to Coronado, on San Diego Bay, in 1915, and settled in Pasadena in 1916, a decade after The Jungle had made him a national celebrity. His exposé of the meat-packing industry . . . .
" . . . [In 1916] Sinclair moved to Pasadena because he liked to play tennis and once ranked seventh in Pasadena.
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"He was a health-food nut . . . both he and Wilshire fell prey to a San Francisco homeopathic physician named Abrams . . .
"[In Pasadena] He used to go walking with Henry Ford in the San Gabriel Mountains behind Pasadena; they would discuss politics and economics . . . [Sinclair] asked King Gillette, the socialist razor [magnate] to argue with the flivver [merchandizer]. Gillette was no more successful than Sinclair . . .
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