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RADICAL MINDS THE CALIFORNIA MEETING OF ALBERT EINSTEIN AND UPTON SINCLAIR.(U)

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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 20050522
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Byline: Anthony Arthur Special to the Daily News

In November 1930, shortly before he arrived in Pasadena for the first of his three stints as Caltech's most distinguished visiting professor, Albert Einstein received a warm though cautionary letter of welcome from Southern California's most politely obstreperous social critic, Upton Sinclair.

``I am considered a very dangerous person,'' Sinclair warned, tongue only partly in cheek. But if Einstein wanted ``a quiet garden to come to and be let alone in, we will provide it. You had better bring your fiddle along, and we ...

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