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Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to or corrective of news previously published in TIME...
...this item you list eight of the "world's hugest buildings," with the Equitable, Manhattan, 24,000,000 cubic feet first, and General Motors, Detroit, 20,411,000 cubic feet second. You make no mention in this article of the American Furniture Mart in Chicago. This building at present contains approximately 21,000,000 cubic feet, and with the addition which is now under construction will contain approximately 28,000,000 cubic feet...
...this digging finally began. Dr. Edward Capps of Princeton, onetime U. S. minister to Greece, turned the first spadeful of the thousands of tons of earth that will be removed from Athens' ancient Agora, or market place, the site of many temples which, though, looted by conquerors, should still contain many art treasures of the Golden Age. The digging is entirely under the American School of Classical Studies at Athens*; after 30 years or so of labor, the Agora will be given back to Greece, stripped of its 35 feet of debris, for a public park. Dr. Capps also formally...
Among the books of a general nature "The Letters of Tobias Smollett, M.D." is of great interest. These letters which were collected and edited by Edward S. Noyes, Assistant Professor of English at Yale, contain 19 which have never been published before and establish several new facts in a life of which very little is known...
Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to or corrective of news previously published in TIME. Philadelphia