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...been editing (daily newspapers), publishing, and printing. With these premises and qualifyings, may I comment on the "Great Mystery" (TIME, March 18). You tell your subscribers that in the plant of the Cuneo Press, where Cosmopolitan Magazine is printed, "numerous compositors set portions of an article that were 'meaningless fragments' to them." I have read this "On Entering and Leaving the Presidency''; and if anyone has told a TIME writer that even Printer Cuneo could have cut this copy into "takes"* that intelligent compositors could not have recognized as Coolidge biography, the story teller...
...Burlington, Vt. Wintering at Phoenix, Ariz. Vermonter Lane's query about the "meaningless fragments" can never be answered. Now that the "mystery" is dispelled, not even the Cuneo Press typesetters could honestly say how little or much sense or sensation they derived from setting the disjointed Coolidge paragraphs. Editor Long exaggerated, perhaps, when he suggested that the typesetters were entirely ignorant of what the fragments were all about. Vermonter Lane's questioning of Editor Long's editorial integrity is more grave. In the interests of accuracy, definiteness and fairplay, TIME has showed Vermonter Lane's letter...
...Miro, two artists identified with that final phase of expressionism known as Surrealism, are represented in the exhibit. "Two Steeds", the canvas by Chirico, is charming both in its color and obvious content, aside from an elaborate allegorical significance. On the other hand, Miro's composition, entitled "Abstraction", is meaningless without an understanding of the artist's intention...
...competitive prize in the field of literature, or in any one department of learning, the idea is wholly acceptable, but as a contest to ascertain the relative amounts of culture in one university and another, it is meaningless. It is to be hoped that the inactivity forced on the wits this season will not seriously impair their cerebral accomplishments so that we may look forward to another illuminating and amusing showdown in the future. Cornell...
...plant of the Cuneo Press, where Cosmopolitan is printed, numerous compositors set portions of an article that were "meaningless fragments" to them. Only Printer Cuneo and his chief assistant had been added to the circle of those who knew the truth. Under the lynx-eyes of private detectives the fragments were assembled and plates made. During the two weeks required to run off 1,850,000 copies of the magazine.* the detectives stood at their posts; at night the precious plates rested securely in a safe. Late one afternoon, five men with sawed-off shotguns robbed the Cuneo plant...