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...opinion of the Herald-Dispatch, the creator of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie has violated his sacred reader trust. ... In the latest instance, all political leaders, and it follows every public official, are at once indicted as 'crooks' and to accept such a sweeping indictment is to permit the creator of Little Orphan Annie and . . . the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, to attack and condemn all persons, all institutions, and all ideas save those they choose to label acceptable...
...William H. Carter and a large imposing public library. Last week Mayor Carter went into the Santa Monica public library to re-open what in a fortnight has become the gaudiest main reading room on the Pacific Coast and to dedicate the largest mural finished under PWAP. Should a reader's attention wander, he would be instantly confronted by brilliantly colored likenesses of such assorted characters as Boccaccio, Gautama Buddha, Mayor Carter of Santa Monica, Adam & Eve, Cinemactress Gloria Stuart, Bach, Michael Faraday, Senator John P. Jones, Leo Carrillo, Michelangelo, Confucius, and Viola Player Samuel Lifschey. All this...
Does any TIME reader contend that Drs. Penfield, Peet, Brickner or Adson is not handsome? A standing joke among U. S. physicians is the inexplicable fact that most U. S. brain surgeons are notably good looking...
...merely etched them more sharply against the background of the U. S. scene. Thus, what was in 1922 a shrewd and observant novel, emerges in 1935 as a bitingly satiric portrait of an era. Alice Adams-once a typical U. S. adolescent with scarcely more serious claims on a reader's sympathy than Penrod or Willie Baxter-is now something infinitely more important and the heroine of a picture which, while it is often uproariously funny, is in effect a bitter and perceptive minor tragedy...
Philippa Duke Schuyler, 4, daughter of a Manhattan Negro writer, startles visitors by repeatedly spelling pneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoniosis,* informing them that it is the longest word in the English language. A forceful pianist, a determined rhymester, an avid reader of fourth grade books, Philippa has the added distinction of never having eaten cooked food...