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...scribe who pounds out the ironic, smile-provoking reviews of the celluloid strips tripped a bit in his discussion of that stupendous inanity billed as She [TIME, July 22]. I fidgeted through one showing of this insult to my imagination, but was attentive enough to notice that the gentleman preserved in ice "like a lamb chop in aspic'' was not John Vincey, but his valiant servant who had had a terrific encounter with a sabre-toothed monster. John Vincey, on the other hand, was miraculously preserved on a very uncomfortable looking slab, only to be unceremoniously consumed...
...forbid that our boys in khaki will ever again be forced to go into action 3,000 miles from home. But would not diplomatic encouragement to Haile Selassie cause Il Duce to slow up a bit and realize that reason is more useful than the sword? A nation can always be boycotted into submission with less bloodshed and less cost than...
...Banking & Currency was packed with friends of the New Deal and Chairman Fletcher was set as a watch dog over him. Senator Glass refused to be hurried. He insisted on hearing everyone. Unable to outvote his fellow committeemen, he spent two months educating them in the problems of banking. Bit by bit he won them around by logic, bit by bit got Governor Eccles' friends to compromise, bit by bit got the bill changed...
...this enlightening education was Howell Colwell Hopson. When he left his job with New York State, he set himself up as a public utility expert. In 1921 he got hold of what is today the great Associated Gas & Electric System, modestly becoming its vice president and treasurer. Bit by bit he expanded it, snapping up one company here, another company there. Today the Philippines and Nova Scotia are on the fringe of his empire, while Tennessee and South Carolina are in its suburbs. Its heart is in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Hundreds of companies have passed through...
Right out of the late great William Henry Hudson's The Naturalist in La Plata might have come this bit from Mrs. J. W. Peiterson of El Cajon Valley (Calif.) News: "An old family horse belonging to the Marcks Brothers of Lakeside, and raised by them from a colt on their ranch above El Capitan, died last week. Last year he was turned out to green pastures, his twenty-five years of intimate and dependable service ended. Weeks on end, the old fellow roamed where he pleased and was seldom seen...