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...Anent Royal Dutch's Sir Henri Deterding, May 9: when the Winkler County, Texas oil gushers, in the midst of the desert of Texas, hit the headlines across the world in the '20s with "Oil, 10? a barrel, water $1," I drove across the trackless sand with tires deflated toward two men near a Dodge coupé with a broken axle and mired in gypsum sand up to the running boards. One was an unshaven, booted, leather-jacketed oilfield-lease hound named Allen; the other, Sir Henri Deterding, immaculately dressed in English tweeds, with a pipe...
Please allow me to send these several words of thanks for the nice write-up anent "Auxilium Latinum" in the Jan. 4 issue of TIME. I thought the italicized Latin caption beneath the picture of myself was clever...
What with a suicide, a normal death, an abortion, an aristocratic nymphomaniac and a wig-fetishist of an elevator operator, The Pink Hotel might have rated a black mark in any Baedeker except for Author Dennis' quips and quiddities, e.g., anent the nouveaux riches: "Better nouveau than never." The book also enjoys spoofing the Hippocratic oath of the hotel business. "What is a Guest? A Guest is the most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging...
Concerning Dr. Dock's theory anent stress imposed by sexual intercourse...
...Anent the crocodile tears of Mr. Wilson of Los Angeles: there are no Jim Crow tanks here guarding against the Negroes' escape to Los Angeles. KARL RAMSEY Memphis