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Sirs: After reading your pidgin English version of Mose Simms's departure from St. Mary's University [TIME, April 28], I want to protest the wisecrack made in the first paragraph of your story, which was apparently written after a night of struggles with paranoia...
...receive. Each morning he presented the Waldorf counter-girl with an apple, for which bribe he had his soft-boiled eggs brought to his table by a bus-boy. After breakfast he sat there, donned pince-nez, and scoured the Herald, pausing now and then to extract a paragraph with his pen-knife. About 9:15 he went for a walk, an eternal walk, up and down, around, through the Yard, constantly smoking but never inhaling, smiling, chatting, examining the same buildings and paths, finding something old to chuckle over. He spoke precisely, in balanced periods, and his stories...
...Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana, who was a Huey Long adjutant at the time the late Kingfish, looking fondly at his henchmen, said: "I can buy & sell legislators like sacks of potatoes." Last week Senator Ellender stood ready to fight for his amendment, which would merely have added a paragraph to the effect that nothing in the measure gave the President any additional authorization to send an A. E. F. outside the Western Hemisphere, wherever that is. Many a mother-conscious Senator stood ready to vote for this. Constitutionally the President has absolute unchallenged power to send the Army...
Last week their first batch of twelve anti-sabotage posters was in use. Each had a sharply pointed Hungerford cartoon, an admonitory paragraph by Sherman, ended with the slogan: "You are a production soldier . . . America's first line of defense is here." Sample: A dope in overalls talking his head off while Hitler...
Your editorial of March 11. "Liberal Liturgy", described very accurately the new "just order of society" proclaimed by the Malvern Conference of the Church of England. But in your concluding paragraph you made a slight theological error in saying that: "For a century now there has been an attempt to bring these same practical reforms into being through the medium of force rather than religion. Perhaps it will turn out eventually that the Church is a better catalyst of progress than the Communist revolution." May it not be indeed that the Church of England is identifying itself with the Communist...