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...your Aug. 23 issue you devoted a page to "Judgments & Prophecies." It is a fine section and should be continued. With TIME'S standoffish style, it is refreshing to read the change-of-pace editorials that make the viewer sharpen up for the rest of the magazine...
Congratulations to TIME Aug. 23 on the wonderful cover story on Secretary McKay. It's about time the sprawling Interior Department was brought to public attention and that its new leader received a pat on the back...
...your Aug. 16 notice concerning a parachute jump from a biplane by a Russian parachutist equipped with stopwatches, portable altimeters, warning buzzers and political tutors, etc.: I am not impressed. I am an Air Force parachutist with ... a large unit, and we jump regularly from all types of aircraft . . . Leaping . . . with a full fieldpack, a rifle, extra equipment plus a large, 75-lb. general-purpose container, makes the stoic little Russian's feat appear rather tame by comparison. But . . . this big tough Russian murmuring "Eto Nichevo," as he [disen tangled himself from] his warning buzzers and portable political tutors...
Will you please accept a warm word of appreciation for the excellent item ["Facts & Figures"] you carried in your issue of Aug. 9 on the need for adequate Government statistics . . . Having had a hand in the recent report of the Intensive Review Committee for the Secretary of Commerce I am pleased to see the increasing recognition by the magazine press of the important role of Government statistics...
...classic understatement of the year was made by Miss Binde, the German student at the University of Illinois [TIME, Aug. 23]. She the probably was too polite to elaborate. Her ability to lap up a four-year college course in little more than a year, she states, was because "the general level [of education] is a little more advanced in Germany." Ha! I say it's a great deal more advanced all over Europe. Why? Because European children are not coddled, nor is their precious earning time wasted in hours of drawing, gym, music, crafts...