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Relative to your excellent article on Mrs. Roosevelt (TIME, April 17), can you tell me why the Boston Traveler (owned by the arch-Republican Boston Herald) published her column "My Day" only a few days three years ago and then discontinued it? No other Boston paper publishes it at the present time...
...Bryn Mawr College-isolationist sister of Presidentially ambitious Senator Robert A. Taft who last week accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of "ballyhooing" war in order to play politics (see p. 21)-urged the same committee to stiffen the present neutrality law and make it more instead of less inflexible, arch-isolationist Senator Borah demanded: "Haven't the people [of the U. S.] already made up their minds who is right and who is wrong? The world is already at war. Already things have taken place which make other nations look on us as un-neutral. Do you think...
...University of California's varsity oarsmen: a three-mile race in 14 min., 48.4 sec.; defeating the University of Washington, their arch rivals, by seven lengths and bettering the course record by 5½ sec.; in the annual West Coast regatta that opens the U. S. rowing season; on the Oakland Estuary in San Francisco Bay. It was their first victory over Washington since...
...reason Arch McDonald is high favorite of the fans is that he avoids the hackneyed "hot-corner," "keystone-sack" school of baseball idiom. With Arch a pitcher is a pitcher, not a twirler; a catcher catches, he does not "do the receiving chore." The lingo he uses is his own or fresh from the dugout. Announcing a double play, for example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball...
...sure way to pick a fight with Arch McDonald is to touch him with peach fuzz. He has a holy horror of it, once broke the jaw of a joker who rubbed some...