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When all this is done, the Indian Bureau will proceed to explain to the Navajos that they must reduce their stock. But the explanation, and the subsequent reduction, was inaugurated in 1934 and 1935. By the time the bilingual teachers get around to it, the Navajo stock will be reduced to the vanishing point. They think it's far too near that point already. Doesn't your article put the cart before the horse...
Whimsical Sirs: Let TIME'S Science Editor explain how the Japanese carbonate wood to charcoal (TIME...
Among other things that went whistling down on the German seaplane bases at Sylt one night last week (see p. 30) was a pair of shoes, dropped by a young British gunner with a note to explain: For Adolf, your Führer. . . . He will wear them out getting away from...
Sirs: TIME'S knowledge of Gilbert & Sullivan exceeds both its and G. & S.'s familiarity with the calendar. Frederic, Pirate of Penzance (page 57, TIME, March 4, under Birthdays) will be 21 on Feb. 29, 1944. Why? 1900 was not a Leap Year-why-perhaps TIME can explain...
...fifty-pound Mr. Rosselli refused to answer questions on the business census (already under way). Rosselli's story: "This Girman he comes in. He says, 'Where you been? Every day I go to your store to ask you census but you ain't there.' I explain I got a store at Harvard [Ill.] too. Then he get abusive. He get hold of me by shirt and shook me and I shook him." Girman's version: "Rosselli didn't want to answer any of the questions and finally took after me and chased me from...