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...miles and back to Denver on three successive Saturdays to get a copy of TIME, and I am no longer young. Hut never before have I felt like kissing the editor on both cheeks as when I read in the current issue his matchless rejoinder to a supercilious fanatic anent the use of an innocuous expletive. It served him right, for he betrays a mentality which even TIME can never hope to enlighten...
...Holy Name Society in Boston. William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, said: "I desire to speak earnestly anent a degenerate form of singing which is called 'crooning.' No true American man would practice this base art. Of course they aren't men. ... If you will listen closely [to crooners' songs] you will discern the basest appeal to sex emotion in the young...
Your issue of October 30th carries more than two pages of correspondence anent the CRIMSON's editorial on the West Point game. It is rather surprising to note that these communications are unnimously condemnatory. Not one graduate voice is raised in support of the courageous expression of opinion by the young Cambridge editors. Possibly it is significant that all of the letters printed are from New York or Boston and from graduates of more than twenty years standing. Harvard alumni represent such a broad cross-section of the country that, to the university's lasting credit, a respectable minority party...
...Coney Island funpark, Reporter Earl Sparling of the New York World-Telegram interviewed police officers, learned the following anent the habits of New Yorkers in dealing with lost children...
Thanks many times for the highly interesting historical note anent the demise of the Anaconda Standard (TIME, July 27). Herewith some addenda which may be of interest...