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[Apropos of the frenly Raleigh spelynge letter] penned to Mrs. Gotch in 1898 (TIME, Nov. 15, Dec. 6). This is another little gem written [by Oxford's Sir Walter] at the time of the Boer War.
Beatrice Ayer Patton, in the midst of the hurly-burly about her husband (see p. 69), published in This Week a short story about a scared soldier. Apropos her husband's difficulties, she. recalled: "I think I'm a good mother, but I can remember all too well...
For a moment I hoped, wildly, that this gentleman . . . was, indeed, about to be shorn of his locks. However, nothing so apropos happens in this life. I found to my disappointment that a tame and civilized barber, far from doubling for Delilah, was merely obeying Mr. Lewis' orders. These...
Russia's Mumbo-Jumboism Sirs: Apropos your recent article on "Churches in Russia" (TIME, April 12) and particularly with regard to this quotation: "Most foreign observers . . . believe that the Kremlin is basically just as anti-religious as it ever was," I should like to offer a word of parenthetical...
Eckstein first saw Japan on the day the American Exclusion Act went into effect. He spent his first night with a Japanese family in the home of a surgeon. The surgeon's Western education had not altered the decorum, the grace, the rigid loveliness of his family life, which...