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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever read of a shorter cut to Brave New One World this would be it: having the Cowles dictate American policy as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...seems a fit time to point out the rather embarrassing fact that the U.S. has really no right to look askance at Russia for her abominable treatment of Pasternak when the American Government is guilty of keeping Ezra Pound under lock and key during twelve years, for political dissension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...news of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s decision [to split its stock] not only hit Wall Street like a bombshell, but it hit me the same way. All I've ever heard about A.T. & T. and New England T. & T. has been that they're losing money and rates have to go up. As a lifetime consumer, may I now expect a reduction in rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...last 50 years much progress has been made. "Australian port," so labeled, may not be sold in Great Britain, nor may Spanish "champagne" be sold in Spain. We in America have eliminated all but a handful of these so-called generic names, and American vintners may no longer market, as in the bad old days, "Château d'Yquem" and "Château Margaux" from California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Regarding Mr. Alistair Cooke's remarks on British correspondents, and in particular Mr. Don Iddon. I am a Briton by birth and recently spent over two years back in England, where I was appalled at what Mr. Iddon wrote in his columns about the American way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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