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TIME knows the words. Let Reader Brodsky remember: the incident took place at Harvard...
Franklin Roosevelt's mispronunciations sound just as bad as Alfred Landon's. However, there is good authority for pronouncing "again" with a long aa" and TIME is not prepared to say whether the President or Reader Strong's radio elides the first "n" in "government." One clear case of Rooseveltian mispronunciation, TIME has called attention to: he and his son James both pronounce the "t" in "often" (TIME, March...
...Reader was Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black. The case involved the right of the Federal Trade Commission to prevent Standard Education Society from advertising, as a free gift for subscribers to its $69.50 loose-leaf supplement service, an encyclopedia which the F. T. C. had found normally sold at $69.50 with no charge for the supplement. In his opinion, in which all of his eight colleagues concurred, Justice Black ruled for the Commission, gave an outline of his reasoning...
...brief for crazy quilt paintings but stands by its estimate of Carnegie Prizewinner Georges Braque's The Yellow Cloth as a successful abstraction, for reasons given in its report on the Carnegie show (TIME, Oct. 25). Chances are that Leonardo da Vinci would shrug, smile, disagree with Reader Sullivan...
...stubborn stodginess of the Boers themselves, even more to their galumphing dialect, a certain drabness of atmosphere has beclouded every novel of the Cape Colony, from Olive Schreiner's Story Of An African Farm on down. Swift, even melodramatic though The Turning Wheels is, many a reader will come an early cropper over words like baas, kopje, kloof, veldt, mevrou, spruit* with which its text is besprinkled, over the de Jongs, Zwart Pietes, van der Bergs, van Reenens who make up its confusing cast of characters. But once these obstacles are hurdled, the surviving reader can settle down...