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Sirs: You will have incurred the wrath of all border readers of TIME, by your reference to the -'Scotch city of Carlyle" (TIME, Nov. 17, p. 22, col. 3). The gazetteer gives: "Carlyle. co. bor. Cumberland, Eng., on River Eden; important railway centre, anc. castle and cathedral, p. 52,600; also t. Penn. U. S. A." In spite of this TIME remains the best of weeklies. W. D. PUGH...
...Theatre Guild has collected seven pretty girls, a gang of cowboys, some border ballads, and a good many dirty jokes, which it has woven into a play that is called, for want of anything better, "Green Grow The Lilacs." When all this was done a plot involving a swash-buckling cowhand, a shy young maiden, and a villian whose hands dripped with the blood of past crimes, was added for the sake of convention. The result is supposed to represent the Indian Territory...
Legislation. "The Congress has before it legislation partially completed in respect to Muscle Shoals, bus regulation, relief of congestion in the courts, reorganization of border patrol in prevention of smuggling, law enforcement in the District of Columbia. . . . It is desirable that these measures should be completed. . . . There are a number of questions which, if time does not permit action, I recommend should be placed in consideration . . . for subsequent action." Here the President briefly outlined the following subjects: 1) regulation of interstate electrical power; 2) consolidation of railways; 3) revision of the anti-Trust laws; 4) repeal of the capital-gains...
...Tribe. On horseback, Desmond Holdridge, 24, explorer for the Brooklyn Museum, rode for 30 days from the mouth of the Amazon River to Rio Brasco in the jungle country of Brazil, close to the Venezulean border. With him went a native horse thief, the only guide brave enough to accompany him. In the heart of the jungle he found the Pishauko tribe, known to white men by name only. Originally a plains people, the Pishauko fled into the jungle to escape becoming slaves to Spanish conquerors. The natives worship before a symbol which looks like a crucifix, chant services before...
When Captain Roberts went to his lonely blockhouse on the Afghan border he left another man's wife behind him. She did not write; he wondered why. When Lieutenant Nicholson came to join him, Roberts found out the reason: his second-in-command was now first with the lady. They became mortal enemies, but then there was a border uprising. Nicholson was badly wounded, and Roberts brought him in at the risk of his own life. They shook hands and agreed the woman was not worth it. On leave together (by now they were inseparable) they met her again...