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...picture of General Semenov in TIME for Aug. 23 recalled vividly an encounter with the General in March 1918. A refugee train was on its way from Petrograd to Harbin carrying a polyglot group of diplomatic officials, business men and bankers. On board were the staff of the American embassy in Russia, headed by First Secretary Bailey; the staff of the Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank...
...have just learned of an article about our paper the Chatham Chatter in your Aug. 16 issue...
Referring to your article on p. 30 in your issue of Aug. 9, entitled "Franciscan into Jesuit" and describing the historical inaccuracy of the garb of Marquette, which was changed from a Franciscan to a Jesuit habit, as a student of history I am reminded that Father Marquette died near the present site of Ludington, Mich, in 1675, and La Salle did not start on his Western trip until 1679 and his spiritual companion was Father Hennepin while Marquette's companion was Joliet. . . . I do not find any historical record that La Salle ever saw Father Marquette...
...TIME, Aug. 23-"barratry (encouraging quarrels)." The only definitions of barratry I have heard are these...
...Death at Daytona" in your Aug. 23 issue, for example: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...