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Sirs: TIME is a great magazine, but mere greatness is no warranty against error or poor judgment. Even this peaceful village of New York Mills has been stirred to excitement by what you said in column 3, p. 21, Sept. 8 issue. "Fin-land, whence come house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid." What do you know about Finns? Send a correspondent to New York Mills, located within the second largest Finn settlement in America; a section 30 by 60 mi., where 23,000 Finns reside. In New York Mills is published the oldest...
...Short, benign, he wears his long white hair bobbed across the back, bald in front. He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat. He lives three blocks from the courthouse in a big rambling house, open to all, keeps no servant, is familiarly called "Judgie". He attends Reno's endless round of cocktail parties, socializes with the city's smart divorce-seekers, declares: "I'm Wet, damned Wet. One can't develop strength of character by restriction." His divorce doctrine is equally simple: "I regard happiness...
...Claud George Bowes-Lyon Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, died of a heart attack during the suspense of waiting for the Duchess of York to give birth to a possible heir to the Throne. Britain was oblivious but tears glistened in the Earl of Strathmore's eyes as his servant was laid away in the castle grounds. On the coffin was a huge wreath of red and white roses from the Duke & Duchess of York...
...life history of Rembrandt is obscure and conjectural. It is known that he was born in 1606, son of a Leyden miller, that he studied only briefly. He married the rich Saskia van Ulenburgh, and after her death took his servant Hendrikje Stoffels as mistress. He enjoyed popular favor for a time, but lost it when his Night Watch heartily displeased the members of the Banning Cock guard, who had paid for their portraits, not for a dramatic episode. Bankruptcy followed plenty. He died in disgrace and poverty. In addition to many miraculous etchings, there are hundreds of paintings signed...
Common Clay (Fox). When this play won a Harvard prize some years ago (1915) it was considered sensational for its courtroom scene. In a devious manner, with this scene as the climax, the heroine, a night-club hostess who sought reformation as a servant girl only to be betrayed by her boss's son, wins a husband for herself and gets possession of the fatherless baby by proving that she herself is the illegitimate daughter of the attorney defending the rich boy. Somehow a few moments of real dramatic power have been concocted out of this stuff and such...