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...that escapes my attention and interest, and on p. 13, col. 3, of the current number (July 1) of TIME, you made comment of the mistake in the arrest of Djenany Bey, the dark-skinned Second Secretary of the Turkish Embassy in Washington, while under the photographic likeness . . . you refer to him as "Egypt's Djenany...
...rich sheep rancher, Republican Senator Warren was dubbed "the greatest shepherd since Abraham" because of his interest in a high wool tariff. His friends have now twisted this sarcastic epithet around to refer, in complimentary manner, to his legislative skill in herding bills through to passage. For the past eight years he has been chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, a post largely honorary since the House Appropriations Committee really does the hard work of framing supply bills...
...respectfully refer you to your "Hatched, Matched, Dispatched" caption in Letters Department, TIME...
...book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted and disappointed conceit against an individual in particular and society and law generally, and cannot seriously affect the opinion of rational individuals, yet since the words are patently libellous per se, and obviously refer to the plaintiff, despite the adroit generalizations used, and because a publication is made at the publisher's peril and risk, the motion is denied...
...British, an attempt to ape the Oxford-Cambridge program of vigorous intramural sports and one annual inter-varsity meet in each sport. It is dangerous because it may not be true. And if Harvard were accused of something that was not true, and accused by a university they refer to as "one of our better provinces," the resultant reaction might be a race riot between Harvard students and the hinterland. In all events, Harvard, would be fortifying her athletic record, which of late has been none too rosy...