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Since Mr. Planalp (TIME, Aug. 16) has started a roster of "Names-in-a-million," I beg to submit my own surname, formerly of no little distinction in the New York publishing circles (New York Staats- Zeitung). For purity of origin and significance of meaning, I think it is a name that will favorably compare with any you may find, for your roster of reversible names...
...help back Manager Planalp off the stage with his boast of a name-in-a-million (TIME, Aug. 16) I am bringing up the name of a cousin in Mississippi with surname and given name reversible: MARY BYRAM...
...were conducting a religion of love and humility. One of Valerian's judges commanded Lawrence, deacon of Pope Sixtus II, to bring forth the treasures of his church. Lawrence produced the poor members of the congregation. The Judge had Lawrence burned alive on a gridiron. Why the Aug. 10 meteors should be named St. Lawrence's "tears," it is hard to say. For he was most brave in the midst of his torment. He is said to have exclaimed: "I am roasted enough on this side; turn me over...
With a flourish, the New York Herald-Tribune published last week more than a column of matter which purported to be an interview with Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, reopening the squabble between him and General Nobile as to who did what aboard the Pole-crossing Norge (TIME, Aug. 2). Mr. Ellsworth was quoted directly. Hurt, angry, he flayed the Norwegian Aero Club for permitting Nobile to assume prominence upon the expedition in the first instance, and specifically, for telling Nobile, lately, that he might write more than a "technical appendix" to the official book of the trip, which Ellsworth and Amundsen...
...grunting, when Pilot Alan Cobham hove in sight last week over Melbourne, at the end of his flight in a seaplane from England. The ovation far outdid the holiday mood indulged in last fortnight by Port Darwin, Cobham's first point of contact with the kangaroo continent (TIME, Aug. 16). The motors of his big De Havilland ship were examined, found in flawless condition after a month and a half of droning through all temperatures, humidities and aridities, from the English Channel, over the Dolomites, Syria and Arabia, the Indian Ocean, New South Wales-13,000 miles. Cobham planned...