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...Sirs: Anent the late William James Sidis [TIME, July 31], your description of him was some what sympathetic, and those of us who knew him as a Cambridge schoolmate are grateful it was not worse...
...Anent "Drugs Without Soda" (TIME, May 17) TIME ought to know that, in New Orleans, the business of the late Max Samson continues for 70 unbroken years at the same location, with prescriptions filled totaling 1,500,000. No soda fountain or tobacco stand mars the expanse of the 100-year-old hand-carved mahogany fixtures...
Sirs: In your Sept. 30 issue anent the Dr. Kildare pictures, you write, "Only the technical director-a young Hollywood doctor glad to make an extra $100 a week-failed to stick when movie publicity boomed his meagre practice after three films." Since this sentence concerns me, I hasten to make a few observations. ... In the two years, 1939 and 1938, when I devoted myself exclusively to the motion-picture industry, my annual gross incomes were $1,760.17 and $2,028.42 respectively. These sums represent the amount of money I was able to earn in this lush enterprise...
...personification of Evelyn Engine by Robert Bacon, Hasty Pudding has really produced some good entertainment for its perspiring spring production. Although the only person who really stopped the show last night was Councilman Sullivan who kept the audience waiting for an hour with his performance the day's happenings anent the Daily Blast, metropolitan newspaper, and the inmates in the Cretin Sanatorium mix well...
...Anent Franklin Roosevelt II;s statement [TIME, March 4] that Franklin Roosevelt III has outgrown diapers at the age of 1½ years-does that precocious accomplishment come from his grandfather's experiences with flood control...