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Have just received circular letter from your Circulation Manager, and as I happen to have a little leisure today I am offering you some gratuitous criticism in the interest of good journalism...
...write you this letter calmly, not happen to be interested in any of the five men whose pictures by Artist Woolf you offer for sale in this outrageously restricted manner. But I do have my eye on the extremely spirited sketch of Otto H. Kahn, by Artist Stevenson, which appears on the cover of your Nov. 2 issue. Is it to be "offered" also...
...gentle squeeze of the trigger and the great Fascist would topple headforemost from the balcony. Perhaps the House of Savoy would fall with him. Amid the antiFascist revolution which would spring up, anything might happen. Even as these thoughts coursed through the mind of onetime Socialist Deputy Tito Zaniboni, something happened with a vengeance. Fascist police burst in his door, collared him, took his rifle away, trundled him off to jail...
...Better known as Sir Edward Grey, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from Dec. 11, 1905 to Dec. 11, 1916. Both days happen to be Mondays, of which Lord Grey says: "... a curious coincidence of date and day of the week...
...things mortal man cannot escape. One is death and the other is being misquoted. The first happens but once, and I have been fortunate in not having the second happen often; but an extempore after-dinner speech at a private dinner is liable to filter out disfigured. Some of the things I am reported to have said at New Haven I did not say; others have been given a false emphasis; and the main point seems to have been missed altogether in the press...