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Sirs: TIME, Dec. 5, p. 18, says in col. 2 : "He said, 'I will burn it because I have no reason for satisfying morbid public curiosity.' After this arrogant comment . . ." etc. Of course I am wrong in thinking Sir Basil's comment not arrogant that arrogant implied overbearing assertion of superiority, of others' rights not recognized, that haughty would be better here, that haughty implies only a consciousness of superiority. Wrong words in wrong places keep TIME from the best tables. Haughtily, RODERICK BISSELL JONES Winstead, Conn...
With what relief I read in your last issue [Dec. 5] that Sir Basil Zaharoff has burned his diary! To me, of course it could make no difference, but I know so many to whom it could...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW?Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis bring Shakespeare boisterously up to date...
...Beginning of a habit. The first pages of the book were like any one of a million other diaries, taken up with a description of the young man's doings, ambitions, theories. Gradually, the man's doings came to have a more than personal importance. Sir Basil Zaharoff began to be spoken of as the "richest man in Europe"; people said that his power was beyond that of kings and premiers. When it became known that Basil Zaharoff had written down all his obscure and enormous conquests, his dark and perhaps reprehensible maneuvers, there followed a great curiosity...
...Said Sir Basil Zaharoff: "This decides me. For a long time I have been questioning myself whether to leave the diary in existence or not. But I'd better not leave it, I see." In Paris, a fire was built and on the fire were placed the first pages of the diary. Like the fires that smoulder in the autumn along country roads, this fire burned slowly and with an acrid smoke as if there had been some bitter taste in the old crisp leaves that it was compelled to chew. For two days the secrets that had been...