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MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN-Thoma Mann-Knopf ($1.50). If Thomas Mann ever turned his hand to ghost stories, Bram Stoker's Dracula would soon have a rival. Mario and the Magician is not a ghost story, but it should bring up duck-bumps on many a reader's neck...
...Lizzie (whose virtue was always being designed upon) and Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull. (Rejection slips to authors explained that "Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull, didn't like this one.") It was and is a collection of frankly bawdy lines and pictures, or innocent double-entendres dependent upon reader-knowledge of an unprintable joke. While Whiz Bang has never been barred from the mails, occasional issues have been held up until they were made passable; and there are sporadic brushes with local authorities over its sale. But in its pages, "hell" appears "h-," or "heck." With the money earned...
...Being a reader and great admirer of your publication and appreciating the accuracy that you are noted for I feel constrained at this time to call attention to certain errors in this advertisement...
...have been a reader of TIME for over two years now and enjoy it immensely, but there is one thing I do not like about it. This is your Miscellany column. It seems to me that every item in it tells of some gruesome way of somebody being killed or committing suicide. Why don't you print something else in this column...
...thru" reader of TIME and after a mind-trip thru your Dec. 8 issue in which I had touched the farthermost parts of the earth-all in my easy chair, I just wondered how far my eyes had traveled...