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Your comment in the Dec. 12 issue regarding my fellow townsman, Edward McCrossin, contained five counts: name, age, place of accident, nature of accident and quotation. Correct were name and place of accident. Wrong was the quoted age. The accident produced a jagged 36-stitch end-of-a-pipe wound in the right hand, not a broken collar bone. He did not say, when offered a drink, "Sir, I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive" but, thinking clearly under stress as consulting engineers must, and considering that his heart had just been through a terrific strain he replied: "Thanks...
...view of the contradictory statements, someone is wrong. To whom shall this error be charged-usually reliable TIME, or occasionally erratic O'Hara...
...Smith's "legato has no vibrato" (TIME, Dec. 12) carries the wrong implication: namely, that absence of vibrato is a mark of good singing...
...Durant, oldtime head of General Motors and leader of many a potent pool in the Coolidge bull market. Broker Block would often take huge selling orders from Bear Livermore over one telephone while Bull Durant was on another wire to place huge buying orders. To customers he thought were wrong he would snort: "You're throwing your money away"?and take the order...
...Christian intrigues heathen Palamede stood firm and pure. But finally he could stand it no longer: in a great hurry he had himself made a Christian and picked a fight with Tristan. When he had given Tristan his death-wound Palamede began to realize he might have done the wrong thing. Sure enough. Isolde would have nothing to do with him. In bitter disillusion, Palamede went back to his Saracen home. When Brangain heard the news she cried: "Where is the Holy Land? Get me a horse...