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...Rockefeller Foundation looks down on great liners moored in the Hudson River. Among the ships on which the Foundation's chairman, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., and its president, Raymond Elaine Fosdick, looked last week were the German steamers Deutschland and Columbus, the Italian Rex. Fresh from the printer was the opinion of the governments symbolized by those ships, which President Fosdick was about to deliver to Mr. Rockefeller and the other 18 trustees of the $150,000,000 philanthropic Foundation. Wrote this great almoner...
Last week counsel for the defunct magazine, with the fear of the Lord Chief Justice in their hearts, decided not to risk a trial. The suit was publicly settled out of court. Author, proprietor, publisher and printer agreed to pay Shirley Temple $10,000, to hand over an additional $7,500 to Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., producers of Wee Willie Winkie. It was announced that the $17,500, when collected, would go to charity...
Raids and arrests made each issue a crisis. Once a German policeman, directing a raid on a trembling printer's shop, sat down on a type form of Free Belgium, almost carried a "proof" on the seat of his pants. Thrice police rounded up everyone they thought responsible for Free Belgium but never did they pluck out its heart. At one mass trial, the German policeman guarding the courtroom found the next issue pinned to his coattails. The bewildered Kaiser and the enraged Brussels commander regularly received copies...
TIME'S timely description of the Sky Tiger by Bell out of Buffalo goes haywire in its second paragraph (TiME, Nov. 15, Transport). The printer's the fall guy (we hope) when he says "two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns." Calibre is the diameter of the bore between the lands. A ".50 calibre gun" is a ½ in. gun. Incidentally the service says "calibre...
...TIME'S printer, no fall guy, a mild rebuke for manhandling correct copy...