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TIME'S figure for South Carolina's black population was wrong, but so is Reader Gibbes's. The Census Bureau reports 996,856 whites, 1,009,718 Negroes, 3,247 other races...
...second error concerns Grape-Nuts. You say our Committee on Foods will insist on a change of name because the product is not grapes and not nuts. This is wrong. Some uninformed person must have misled your representative at Philadelphia. Grape-Nuts might have been considered faultily named but the rules of the American Medical Association Committee on Foods permit names longestablished. The committee does not insist on a change of such commercial names. It does ask that a proper descriptive statement accompany distinctive trade names on labels and advertising for the information of consumers...
...went in Hearst's Old Glory}. Excerpt: "He wanted to win a signal victory, not through some unsavory sensation, but through an exploit that would redound to his honor and that of the Lantern. [He said:] . . . 'Peters, I have nothing to live for. We are both wrong. Keeping up newspaper circulation with stunts is like reviving a dying man with oxygen tanks. I couldn't keep it up and I wouldn't. My flight will be a relief. If I make it, my paper will have something to talk about...
...investigation of the Magistrates' Courts in Manhattan (see p. 12) when the Bank of U. S. failed, causing his retirement from public service. From a sick bed, with a fever of 104°, he appeared last winter before the Grand Jury, swore that there was "something suspiciously wrong" about the $8,000,000 deal, denied that he had anything to do with it. Later, as a defense witness at the Marcus-Singer trial, he swore that he knew all about the deal, repudiated his Grand Jury testimony. For this contradiction Lawyer Kresel was indicted again, this time for perjury...
...Charles H. Elliott, State Commissioner of Education, grew speedily angry when they heard of the examination results. They demanded an explanation. They said that Superintendent Saunders, a native Pennsylvania!, had cooked up a hard examination in order to discriminate against New Jersey normal school graduates. Something was wrong, evidently, if not one person in 116 could pass an examination to be a teacher...