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Prankish sailors will not take in TIME twice. "Charley Noble" is ship slang for a galley funnel. "Joe Gish," at Annapolis as at Princeton and other universities throughout the land, is equivalent to the civilian "John Doe." And Reader Noble's U.S.S. Seattle can scarcely be rolling, for it has not been out of the Brooklyn navy yard for ten years...
...well-balanced and eminently readable summary of the Kennedy survey of the American merchant marine--followed by some material on the Labor Relations Board--puts the reader back on his feet...
...innovator in many ways of presenting the news, TIME through its first 15 years has shown a degree of originality that has been refreshing and oftentimes delightful. I wish the magazine a long life in serving the public by disseminating accurate information written in a manner to keep the reader from drowsing...
TIME'S thanks to Reader Roosevelt. He was the 13th man to appear on TIME'S cover (John L. Lewis was 14th). The issue: May 28, 1923. At that time Mr. Roosevelt was making news as the new tsar of a building trades association. The association has not survived the years as notably as Mr. Roosevelt's ability to make news. He has appeared on TIME'S cover three times since. For news of the fifth member of his immediate family to be pictured on TIME'S cover see National Affairs...
...aptness wins him the regard of Potiphar's steward, the stocky, 50-year-old Mont-kaw, and saves him from labor in the fields. His clairvoyance and wit, when the great Potiphar himself speaks to him, start him on his way to becoming first Potiphar's reader and later his steward upon Mont-kaw's death. But most of Joseph in Egypt is given over to a study of the mad passion of Potiphar's wife for Joseph-a passion that, in Mann's account, transforms her from a cool and indolent lady of fashion...