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Sheep and Dogs. In a letter to the London Times last week an irate female reader urged Europe's small neutral States to act not like sheep but like tiger-hunting dogs, accused sheep of waiting when attacked to be eaten up one by one, praised the dogs for sticking together in a pack and making a "combined rush" at their attacker. The P.M. did not use such picturesque imagery, but he did remark across the ropes to neutrals like Norway and Sweden that they had better adopt a policy that "corresponds to realities," instead of acting...
TIME, like Reader Parker, could be wronger, but not much, about the origin of "stogies" (March 4, p. 2). They were invented in Washington, Pa., a town equidistant from Pittsburgh and Wheeling (about 30 miles). The following is from History of Washington County, Pennsylvania by Earle R. Forrest...
...reader will note that Sinclair Lewis' mellowness sometimes goes maudlin, that his asides on the renaissance of the stage through college and summer theatre companies are more enthusiastic than thoughtful, that about half his characters are themselves straight out of stock, and that as a novel the education of Bethel Merriday is neither so close-knit nor so serious in import as was that of Martin Arrowsmith. But the reader must likewise note that this is not the sour and rickety work of an old self-imitator but a buoyant tale with neither claims nor pretensions to being...
...long bus rides through booming Beverly Hills. Joe promised his Mom a big house some day and a great big car "where you sit inside and the chauffeur sits outside and gets rained on." Mickey McGuire. Through thick and thin Mom has always been a great newspaper reader. Combing the classified ads one day, she found one asking for a young actor to play black-polled Mickey McGuire in a series of shorts based on Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley strip. Mom blackened little Joe's tow head with burnt cork, and for the next seven years...
...Favorite trick of footnote-fetichist Frank: a footnote at the end of every too-daring chapter saying: "The reader will remember that this is a partial explanation...