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...Correction anent "Nanette et Rintintin" (TIME...
Correct Latin though scholarly Subscriber Andrae's version is, the version actually used by Cato, and accurately quoted by TIME, is also correct Latin. Let Subscriber Andrae consult his Allen & Greenough's, or any other standard Latin grammar, anent the gerundive construction...
TIME says anent non-award of Pulitzer newspaper Public Service prize: ". . . the prize committee (names withheld) were either unimpressed or unable to agree." (TIME, May 19). The prize committee, of which I was a member, was impressed, agreed unanimously. But, for some reason, Columbia University trustees withheld award...
...Rome last week, in an official Vatican communiqué to the World press, these points were made: first His Holiness is "highly pleased" that the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Edgar Borah (casual Presbyterian) made private protest anent the persecutions to Soviet Acting Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovitch Litvinov. The Vatican further intimated that Pope Pius is "deeply disappointed" because, despite his appeals, no Christian Government whatsoever has made any official, diplomatic protest to Moscow; third, the Vatican intimated that Pope Pius is particularly disappointed with the Government of the Irish Free...
From another angle, Edwin C. Hill of the Sun concocted an imaginary conversation with "Dr. Dexter Fellowes" anent sea elephant Goliath II, successor to Goliath -who was reported dead twice last year (TIME, Oct. 7, Oct. 28), the last time officially...