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Several TIME readers are interested to know whether Reader Hill, TIME, Dec. 11, p. 7. has made good the bet he lost with you. Figuring it out 23 subscriptions to the Princeton team, including Coach Gorman, would cost $115, but at the special rate only...
...reader of your magazine I have grown respectful of your newsgathering ability but, at the same time, I greatly deplore your deliberate use of repugnant adjectives when writing of persons...
...conversation from an individual; other characters refer at odd moments to the same person. One has but a scrappy and incomplete knowledge of his nature. Then, nicely dovetailed, there appears some short description or conversation which unites all previously known and adds to it with economy, so that the reader emerges with a friendship and knowledge of the character in question which he hardly remembers having got. There is a delicate satirical nimbus over the entire volume; at the same time, not one of the many who enter the pages is let go unsympathetically. The great virtue and strength...
...King" deserves all the praise given it. At the same time, clearly, the stories are only stories. They are related like tales over mulled ale, or over a shot of Scotch, depending on the reader's taste in such things, and leave an impression of leisurely chuckling over life, with some admixture of the entomologists insect-on-the-pin curiosity. Unquestionably, no one will be purged by this book, nor will he mount through it to an ivory tower; but nearly everyone will enjoy it, and nearly everyone will remember for at least an hour after reading it that...
...Hind's "100 Second Best Poems" and ending with an almost moving discussion of Remarque's "The Road Back". The worst part of the book is that headed "Three Newsreels", in which the contents of three issues of a New York newspaper are listed with pitiless cruelty (to the reader), unrelieved through twenty-five pages of triviality and insipid humor...