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...they dislike doing anything today which possibly can be put off. "The result has been that a hundred or more correspondents and camera men are gnawing their fingernails at Addis Ababa, Harar and Dire Dawa knowing less about the fighting they are supposed to be covering than the newspaper reader in New York who, at least, has prompt news from the Italian side. . . . "Correspondents have little hope that the postponed journey to Dessye with Emperor Haile Selassie will be more colorful than a highly interesting Cook's tour, with no possibility of seeing action, since the correspondents, whom Premier...
...stories about Count Rumford and has added some new ones which were worth telling. But his facetiousness and his habit of using Shaksperian tags on every possible occasion detract from the effect which the stories would have had if told in a less decorated manner. The common reader, for whom this book was obviously intended, need not be frightened by the semi-scholarly appearance of the book (bibliography, scattered footnotes, though no index). He may even find himself wishing for more honest facts and fewer tidhits illustrative of that so quaint life of the times...
...crying as if its heart would break ... a cry of neglect and not of anger." Photographer Dailey worked for more than an hour to make happy Baby Burch feel neglected, finally succeeded by sending Mrs. Burch out of the room. So effective was the result that many a touched reader called Union Central agents to ask about the picture; and a woman in Memphis sobbed over the telephone an offer to adopt the child...
...protest re your "Dead Hog & Roast Pork" in the Oct. 28 issue. Granting that one reader's roast pork is another's dead hog," '' don't you think the protests printed were nevertheless indicative of the fact that TIME does word things in such a way that biases may be inferred, though perhaps not intended? Your style is intended to be interesting, and is so, but I personally often feel that in the effort to be interesting, you go too far. We have only just started to take TIME regularly. I have read practically every...
...Reader Nunnally Johnson refers to the Los Angeles Times's "singlehanded fight to persuade the world that the name is Hoover, not Boulder, Dam" [TIME. Oct. 21]. The fight is not single-handed for the Chicago Daily News does the same thing. It may be a coincidence, but Frank Knox. the publisher, apparently has presidential aspirations and Mr. Hoover, according to TIME. is a mighty potent force in Republican ranks even today...