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Sirs: The following will correct the impression given by your article pp. 54 and 56, TIME, July 6, that Grocer Saunders of Memphis was the first in the "Self Serve" type of grocery. The fact is that Lutey Bros., Grocers, Butte, Mont., originated and operated under this plan from February 1912. This was four years before the advent of the Saunders Stores. Mr. Saunders adopted this idea very successfully, after learning about its results with Lutey Bros., Butte. This innovation in grocery retailing by Lutey Bros, was commented upon by trade journals- The American Grocer, New York, devoted several pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Many warmest thanks for the copy of July 6 TIME containing the review of my article in Science, June 26, pp. 621, 622. The speed is quite astonishing and the reviewer has done a masterly job. He knows the subject well and has precisely caught my exact meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

BELIEVE YOU OWE DOCTOR SPAETH AMENDS AND APOLOGIES AND SOME CLEVER CAPTION-WRITER A GOOD HARD SIT DOWN IN HIS CHAIR FOR WHAT IS ON PP. 36 AND 37, TIME. APRIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1936 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

When Charles Morgan wrote The Fountain (1932) it was variously hailed as a big book, a pretentious imposture, a masterpiece, a phony. Sparkenbroke will raise the same contradictory contentions. Like its predecessor it is a long (551 pp.), serious novel on a solemn theme. Whether it was heavily ridiculous or gravely sublime was a question for the reader's taste, sympathy, sense of humor. Discerning readers last week gave Sparkenbroke high marks for good intentions and pomposity, refused to consider it as a masterpiece, but conceded that its weighty persistence was more impressive than the average novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Byronic Beautification | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...debut of Herbert George Wells as a screenwriter. It places Alexander Korda's London Film Productions Ltd. on a par with Hollywood for production power as well as brains. It tells an extraordinary story which, while it may not convince cinemaddicts, is likely to captivate them (see pp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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