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...your reply to Reader Ley printed in the Sept. 3 issue, you remind him that Amherst is one of the U. S. college towns without a railroad station. For many years Amherst has had two railroads serving the town. One the Central Vermont's line to New London and the other the Boston & Maine's "Central Massachusetts Division." The latter line I am informed has been abandoned, but the Central Vermont still carries...
...Against Reader Riley's undocumented challenge, TIME pits the word of Uneeda Bakers, Ward Baking Co., Cushman Bakers, Doughnut Machine Corp. and the Salvation Army that doughnuts have holes. Doughnuts made by Ward for the New England trade have smaller holes, but distinctly holes. In some communities, e.g. Cleveland, cakes-with-hole may be called either doughnuts or crullers. Practically everywhere the twisted, sausage-like cake is called a cruller, is never called a doughnut...
...Reader Gilbert refer to the opinion of his own State's Attorney General Ulysses Sigel Webb who, when asked by Mr. Merriam's executive secretary how to sign official papers, held that Mr. Merriam technically was Acting Governor from the moment of Governor Rolph's death to the end of his term. However, the law does not prescribe the form of signature...
...editorial page of Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News a reader is likely to find almost anything. Last week 1,829,000 Sunday readers found a cartoon of a prison with a serpent labeled "Homosexuality" coiled within the walls. A two-column editorial was entitled...
...uses some of his funniest incidents (Tony and Mrs. Rattery playing a card game while his little son is lying dead upstairs) to point his pathos. A Handful of Dust is a cunningly contrived cinema of cold wit, tender humor, impersonal satire, shameless, but effective hokum. Only a rare reader will be able to sit it through unmoved either to a smile or a sigh. The total effect is sinister. Author Waugh must be credited with having written a novel truly representative of an age which is partly melodrama, partly farce...