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Sirs: I have just had the fun of reading your breezy article under the caption "Atavism" (TIME, Jan. 17). As a Western Jackrabbit to an Eastern Jackass may I not congratulate you? The five columns which you so generously devoted to my little home town, are yellower than Hearst at his best. As a matter of fact, you have out-Bonsfilsed Bonsfils-and that is a mighty hard thing to do-in old woman's gossip, and in exaggerated and distorted fact. . . . (DR.) JAMES A. COCHRAN...
...invite your attention, please, to an apparent error on p. 21 (TIME, Nov. 29), under the heading MEDICINE, subhead "At Sea." The caption "USS" means "United States Ship" and is applied ONLY to ships of the Navy. The caption "SS" means "Steamship" and is used when referring to merchant vessels. Neither the Eastern Glade nor the West Calumb is a vessel of the United States Navy. The fact that the health of the crew sort of depended upon the Captain's knowledge of medicine, might create the wrong impression among civilians?fathers, mothers or other relatives of officers and enlisted...
...joke only was a real Gridironed perennial. In the cinema travelogue there was a slide of a ruined Roman town. The caption: "A view of the League of Nations taken with an Administration camera...
...photograph of a wall-eyed youngster with protruding ears, a puckered mouth, and neither shirt nor collar on his thick wrinkled neck appeared on the front page of a famed daily last week under the caption "YOUTH SUPREME." The youth in question, one Jack Sharkey, had just demonstrated in a bloody bout in Brooklyn his supremacy against black Harry Wills, once known as "The Brown Panther," and long the Nemesis of Jack Dempsey. All through the fight Sharkey chopped and hacked at Wills, closed his eye, made his mouth bleed; all through the fight the referee skipped between...
...above all this applies to college films. Almost without exception, college movies have conspired to paint college as a grotesque. College is just one great big democracy where all the little boys and girls run track every afternoon or get well sneered at, and deservedly, too. The caption writers on college films, with the exception of Yale's Greatest American Wisecracker, Donald Ogden Stewart, are as smug and healthy as Lifebuoy. Clean, upstanding, virile, they preach the doctrine of mens sana in corpore sano, and in so many words, too. And they are as humorless as they are smug...