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Sirs: ... It seems but fair that you do a bit more investigating into what Dr. Frederick A. Cook has done and what he has not done. I heard Dr. Cook lecture, very, very modest in his claims, immediately after he had returned through the angry-schoolboy newspaper and telegraphic firespittings of Peary. ... If Dr. Cook had not found the North Pole, he thought so and has shown as much, if not more, proof that he did reach it than ever did Peary. The very fact that he has been handed the hot end of a poker ever since should induce...
...beginning as harmless a bit of Gilbertian whimsy as was ever conceived by Princeton minds, the movement has suddenly turned serious, to the surprise of every one including its founders. With the promise of Representative Maverick to introduce their bill into Congress and the humorless protest of the Gold Star Mothers, childish things have been put aside, and the Veterans of Future Wars become full-fledged lobbyists in their own right...
...noble of Mr. Philips to remind TIME Inc. that it "would be performing a real public service" if it "would refuse to stoop again to such profit-taking." He must have overlooked that very nifty bit of American Legion profit-taking achieved this year over a Presidential veto in Washington. For that superpatriotic boosting of the national debt, the Legion makes all of us, as taxpayers, even greater "suckers...
...Renfrewshire, Scotland, where a narrow little creek called the River Cart joins the twisting Clyde there is a fertile fan-shaped farm. It boasts three good fields, a bit of useless swamp, a shaded dirt road. For the past year what made it different from all other farm land in Scotland was that every time its farmer raised his eyes from the furrow he saw towering over his head the vast stern and mountainous superstructure of the greatest ship ever built in Britain, Queen Mary. When the farmer looked up from his field last week Queen Mary was gone, safe...
...only sound tradition about the Grand National, 4½ miles over the hardest course in the world, is that anything can happen. Just before Davy Jones took the second fence from the finish last week, one of his reins broke near the bit. The part of the crowd of 250,000 that was standing near the finish saw the Hon. Anthony Mildmay steer his father's horse desperately over the jump, but on the flat again Davy Jones veered sharply, ran off the course...