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...Erasto Garcia's; see TIME'S Miscellany, Nov. 3 wherein is stated: "At Bilbao, Spain, Erasto Garcia wrote 5,725 words (three chapters) from Don Quixote on a post card, claimed a world's record." Dr. John J. Taylor, Streator, 111. (this cover- to-cover reader's Grandaddy) in 1893, before 30 prominent Streatorites, wrote on a postcard 14,564 words. The subject: i Kings, 13th Chapter containing 1,142 words. This written twelve times with 860 additional words on one side of a regulation U. S. postcard with the naked eye. With either Dr. John...
Outstanding personnel change of the week was when James Reader Leavell, 46, received flowers and telegrams upon becoming president of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., fifth biggest U. S. bank, biggest of all in Chicago, succeeding Eugene Morgan Stevens, last fortnight appointed chairman of Chicago Federal Reserve Bank...
Though TIME does not vouch for "Golden Dawn" being "WORLD'S FINEST COCKTAIL" the mere fact that the verdict of the international jury to that effect is reported, might cause the thoughtless reader to consider that this cocktail (socalled) is really worthy of such praise (TIME, Sept...
...weekly reader of your magazine for the past three or four years, I was very much interested in your article and picture of Miss Polly Damrosch with her two German Boxer puppies, and also a statement, that as far as she knew, they were new to the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 13). It is true that these dogs are very little known in this country. I am sending you a picture under separate cover of my dog,† which I have had now for over a year. It is the only Boxer in this state of Rhode Island...
...when the amount of printed matter has approached Gargantuan proportions a segregation of good literature from bad has its place. However, beyond certain definite limits it do not particularly useful for anyone but the critic Books, like experience, are different in the minds of the individual reader. The opinion of any one man on the relative merits of every volume that has ever been published can be of little assistance and importance to the average intelligent reader. Analyses of this sort lead into the land of vague generalization where perhaps the traveller might find some of the characters...