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...supplement will contain an overflow of controversy, correction and information on TIME subjects ranging from Oklahoma's Chief Justice to Prize Lies, from Andrew Jackson's pipe-smoking wife to the Loch Ness Monster. To obtain a copy of the Letter Page Supplement, write to I. Van Meter, editorial secretary of TIME, 135 East 42nd Street, New York City.-ED. President's Voice...
...York City last year 198 Consolidated Gas Co. meter-readers, repairmen and collectors on their daily rounds were bitten, nipped or chewed by dogs badly enough to need medical attention. Last week they and their 20,000 fellows were studying a pamphlet specially prepared for them by Dogman Frank F. Dole on "Dogs: How to Approach and Handle Them." Rules...
...ready to start the season at the Bowdoin Meet on Friday, December 15, Coach Harold S. Ulen announced yesterday. Benton S. Wood '33, of Honolulu, last year's intercollegiate champion in the "440" and Robert D. Fallon '33, from Exeter Academy, who placed third in the 50 and 100-meter of the intercollegiates, were the mainstays of the team in free-style last year and this year's group as yet shows no one to replace them in height, weight, or experience, in this department...
...race will be a close one with entries full of fast runners. Foremost of the host of favorites is William Bonthron of Princeton who upset predictions by winning both the 1500 meter and the 3000 meter in the I.C.4A. meet here at Cambridge last spring. He is one of the leading milers of the country, and is expected to win. The Harvard chances, however, seem very good this year. Robert S. Playfair '36 and Arthur S. Pier '35 lead the ten Crimson runners who are entered. Playfair is Harvard's best prospect in the race. Last year, he lost...
...know that wireless travels far into space because we have picked up radio echoes. I never heard any of my early messages come back; the first transatlantic letter 'S' is gone forever. But I have been bothered with round-the-world echoes, especially on the nine-meter wave. We have picked up short words encircling the globe several times. It takes one-seventh of a second for a word to girdle the globe. I have intercepted the word 'no' after it sped around the world several times. The trick is difficult with longer words. At times...