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Sirs: One of the things I have admired about your excellent magazine, is that it is "adult."' In the Oct. 6 issue, I note an attempt to introduce things juvenile into it by a fond mother. There are many places and many children's magazines where the relative values of children's literature may be advertised and discussed-I trust you will not use any of TIME'S so limited space for such purposes. MRS. E. F. BROWNE...
Stuart was a hard fighter and disciplinarian, but he was also ''a social type, loving people, laughing much, leading out in song. He had a rich and golden voice. He was fond of charades and wrote execrable poetry, affected anagrams. There was never any sadness where he was." Wherever Stuart went he took Trooper Sweeny, onetime minstrel, to play the banjo. But he never touched liquor and he stopped all Saturday dances at midnight, for he "had serious ideas about Sunday." During the long, hopeless war (which he would never admit was hopeless) he saw his young wife...
...Manhattan, stayed there six years playing leads on Broadway. On his big ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains he breeds hounds and recently burbanked a new vegetable, a combination of green pepper and tomato which his wife, Lilyan Tash- man, named "topepo." He plays good golf, dislikes radio, is fond of wearing yellow gloves, goes to church every Sunday. His best part was the tough top-sergeant in What Price Glory. Other pictures: The Silent Command, The Fool, The Cock Eyed World, Through Different Eyes...
...Paris in the spring of 1870 Charles Timbal was a well known art critic and collector, Gustave Dreyfus was a well known banker. Critic Timbal had a collection of paintings, bronzes, sculpture, medals of the Italian High Renaissance of which he was inordinately fond. Banker Dreyfus had a great deal of money...
Well-trained truffle pigs will lift the truffles, of which they are passionately fond, to the surface, leave them untouched while they grunt for their acorns. Young pigs get their first truffle-training from their mothers, beginning at the age of one month...