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...permit a column and more for the self-improvement guild. Most of us are delighted and edified by the rest of your scintillating columns. We deplore such an unnecessary attempt to dictate a more careful reading. Has not TIME an audience sufficiently alert and curious and discriminating to select their own reading without question hints and chiding...
Positions as summer camp councillors are desirable. They are comparatively plentiful although application for them must be made early in the year. Directors of summer camps usually start in shortly after Christmas to select their men for the following summer. By the first of April the staffs are pretty well complete so that it behooves a man to start in very early if he wishes this sort of work. Some special qualifications are usually required. A man must be a good swimmer, must be able to sail a boat, must understand woodcraft, nature study, and it is usually desirable that...
Those men who have already had pictures taken must return the proofs by Friday. The picture which is preferred must be marked or the committee will select the picture to be used...
...protracted assassination." The weapon: a smooth steel club with a crook in it and a wooden haft. The assassin: a swart, puss-footed gentleman with a debonair smile, immaculate raiment and merciless accuracy of eye and wrist. He dealt his blows delicately, at infrequent intervals, seeming to select moments when he could most bitterly annoy his prey. His prey: a chunky, blond youth with a grim but cheerful smile...
...display of obstinacy which has thus far characterized the present conference of the League indicates that nationalism still continues to bar the progress of international cooperation. The question of enlarging the council has proved a serious stumbling block. By promising Germany a permanent seat in the select little coterie of the inner chamber, the Locarno signatories felt that they were merely restoring their erstwhile foe to her former place among the European powers...