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Your story on Cartoonist Helen Hokinson [TiME, Nov. 14] brought vividly to mind our meeting in Connecticut several summers ago. My husband and I were vacationing in the East, and on the strength of having sold her four cartoon suggestions (one: "Now, please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman"-see cut), we asked her to meet us for cocktails . . . We found her to be shy, modest, thoroughly affable, and reminiscent of her women . . . When we asked her what she'd like to drink, she said: "A glass of iced tea. Hard liquor makes...
...double trucks are impressive. But if all national advertising copy had been as dull, boring and obtuse as in your series, the great American mass production machine would have ground to a halt long ago...
...critics, like other critics during her 14-city tour, had mixed reactions. The Times-Herald found that "the fresh and brilliant luster of two years ago has been exchanged for a warmth and depth of tone that the music lovers found exciting." The Washington Post admitted some improvement but added tartly: "Miss Truman is too much of a vocal beginner to appear in public...
...visit. He asked a pardon for all cadets undergoing punishment for breaches of discipline, and some 80 promptly had their privileges restored. At Hyde Park, where he had Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, he spied a handsome Persian rug which he had presented to F.D.R. six years ago. Beaming, he got down on his knees, fingered it, and made a short talk on the technique of Oriental rug making. (The test of a good Persian rug: at least 100 knots per square inch...
...years ago WSSF conducted a charities drive of its own in the College, and netted approximately $18,000. Last year it was one of the charities entered in the combined campaign...