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...YOUR REMARKABLY PERCEIVING COVER PIECE ON BARBARA ANN [TIME, FEB. 2] . . . CONGRATULATIONS FROM HER COMPETITOR AND AN OLD TIME...
Thank you for the fine article on Canada's sweetheart. . . . Let us hope that the 12,500,000 prayers you mention tack on as a postscript the request that she never go to Hollywood. More power to Barbara Ann, and kudos to TIME for a most interesting story...
Back in the days of "the Long Armistice," one of the favorite parlor tricks of the intelligentsia was debunking the unsullied stalwarts of the past. Abraham Lincoln became, in these circles, a shrewd country lawyer, Barbara Fritchie an irascible old fishwife, and it was discovered to the intense joy of the iconoclasts that George Washington not only told lies but had unmistakable earmarks of a stuffy, conservative militarist...
...Southern California got relief from its worst drought in 70 years. After 47 clear, dry days, heavy rain swept the state from Santa Barbara to the Imperial Valley...
Canada, which had only one sure string to its Olympic bow, had to wait eight days to score a point. Then Glamor Girl Barbara Ann Scott (TIME, Feb. 2), with grace and precision, outshone 24 competitors to win the women's Olympic figure-skating championship. Her victory was so big an event in Canada that Prime Minister Mackenzie King personally wired her congratulations, and announced his action, amid cheers, in Ottawa's House of Commons. Final winners: Sweden (with 82 points), followed by Switzerland...