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Your article in TIME, Aug. 27, under Medicine, regarding scientific reversals of sex, finds both an easy answer and an astounding sequel, I am delighted to note, on p. 42 of the same issue, under Cinema...
...your review of Cleopatra (TIME, Aug. 27) you quote Antony's last words to Cleopatra, "I am dying, Egypt, dying!", and attribute the line to Shakespeare. As a onetime resident of Cleveland TIME ought to know what every Ohioan knows, that the line was authored by Cincinnati's late, great General William Lytle, who was fatally wounded while leading a charge at Chickamauga...
...your issue of Aug. 27?which, like most of its predecessors, I have read from cover to cover?you print an interesting discussion of Major Angas' book, The Coming American Boom; and while giving to one of its publishers, Mr. M. Lincoln Schuster, due credit for his skill and initiative, you speak of Mr. Schuster as "as shrewd an opportunist as there is in the publishing world." In every fine sense this seems true; but if you meant by "opportunist" a man who seizes every chance to aggrandize himself, regardless of principles, I trust you will let me contradict...
...President had tried to lay his hand soothingly on Business (TIME, Aug. 20), but, like a shell-shocked animal, it kept on trembling all the more. Unable to hog-call Business himself, the President dispatched his Secretary of Commerce to the microphone to swear that the "Roosevelt Administration . . . believes in just profits for management and capital" (see p. 17). But businessmen still had the jitters...
Wall Street had fun last week at the expense of Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas and his latest pamphlet The Coming American Boom (TIME, Aug. 27). For a time the brisk, dapper London stockbroker, whose record as a market forecaster has been well publicized, displaced President Roosevelt as the most-discussed man in the Street. One day when stock-market trading dwindled to the lowest level in twelve years, brokers said it was because everyone had stopped to read Major Angas' prediction. Few days later when trading swelled suddenly to more than 1,000,000 shares and prices soared...