Word: ned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Your Aug. 17 issue contained a belated account of the discovery by my son, Ned, and his cousin of a "two-way short-wave station complete with hidden aerial" on Cape Cod. I assume that the basis for your account was my son's letter to me describing the incident which, at the request of OCD officials, had been published in a local newspaper: My letter to you of Aug. 18 raised the question as to the source of your information that this radio station "for months had sent messages to sea-roving Nazi submarines." Certainly no such statement...
...amazement, your Aug. 24 issue says: "The Navy traced little Ned, found he had dreamed it all up." Never has such an accusation been more ill-founded. I have taken the trouble to obtain definite proof of the accuracy of my son's letter, including, specifically, the camouflaged tent, the hidden short-wave transmitter and the bayonet. Furthermore, despite the retraction currently attributed to the Navy, I quote in full the Navy's letter to him, written on the spot, at the time...
...With the best of intentions, TIME erred twice: 1) in overcrediting Ned Collins, 2) in too readily believing accredited military sources, who told TIME they had checked the boy, and had found he had dreamed it all up. The facts are: Neddie, aged 12, did discover a makeshift tent and radio equipment, which he reported to the Coast Guard. Enthusiastic friends added the Nazi, the communication with submarines and general fancy work. To Ned Collins, TIME gives all due credit for an act worthy of any young citizen...
Died. Edward Claudius ("Ned") Wayburn, 68, veteran Broadway director, the U.S. theater's most famed dance teacher of the '205; in Manhattan. Once a ragtime pianist, he was 28 when he directed his first show (the Four Cohans in The Governor's Son). He looked like a banker, directed like a mule skinner. He helped the Shuberts, Klaw & Erlanger, and Florenz Ziegfeld pretty up their musicals; taught stage technique to such greats as Marilyn Miller, the Astaires, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson; was thrice a millionaire, once a bankrupt...
Another piece of last week's anti-sabotage fancywork turned out to be only embroidery: the alleged capture by twelve-year-old Neddie Collins, of Rye, N.Y. of a Nazi radio spy on Cape Cod. Little Ned wrote his father a letter describing such an incident, Mr. Charles Collins showed it to a local OCD official, who gave it to the press. (TIME, unhappily, fell for it, too.) The Navy traced little Ned, found he had dreamed...