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...adopting a daughter three ancient bachelors make the error of not beating around in the bushes of her past. Hiding in this shrubbery are a couple of Ossining graduates, 1920462 and 192324½. Social calls are exchanged between the crooks and the girl. She is accused of shielding them from justice. Gun play. The crook with the mashed nose confesses. Virtue triumphs...
...referring to Brigham Young as " the founder of Mormonism," (TIME, July 2) was in error. Mormonism?the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?was founded by Joseph Smith, whose parents and grandparents were seers and diviners, at Manchester, N. Y., in 1830. Instructed, he said, by revelation, Smith supposedly dug up a " supplement to the New Testament" written on thin gold plates, and known as The Book of Mormon. On the strength of this "revelation," which declared him to be "God's prophet, entitled to all obedience," Smith founded the Mormon body...
...always managed to turn aside with a novelette in one style or another, the blade of the axe of doom whenever it rested too unpleasantly close to his neck. At last, in fact, the tables were turned indeed-the evilly nimble feet of Ming-Shu entrapped into a fatal error of judgment that implicated Shan Tien-Ming-Shu took Kai Lung's place in the Oriental jail-and Kai Lung, happily bribed, and urbane as ever, departed for the house of his fathers with his bride, the Golden Mouse. "Venerated Father," exclaimed Kai Lung, "this...
...more obvious aspects of the battle showed that Dempsey's twoyears of idleness have mellowed his potency. No longer can he pulverize with a punch. No longer, indeed, can he always " connect " with that punch. His speed has lost its deadliness; his eye has fallen into error...
...hate to speak of matters long buried, such as Pocahentas bones and Lampy's idea of a baseball game, but it does seem to me that a recent error of punctuation on its pages should be partially corrected. It declares "the final score stood 3 to 2 for the Lampoon"; but it left out a dash. The sentence would be "The final score stood 3 to 2 for the Lampoon". FELE. G. BOON...