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TIME in its issue of April 23, printed a letter from J. F. Bassett of Boston in which he writes it would not be fitting for President Coolidge to humiliate himself by flying with Lindbergh in "those brown overalls that aviators wear...
...inform Mr. Bassett that I have just completed a 2,285 rnile hop from San Diego to Minneapolis clad in my seal and ermine coat, satin dress, white hat and corsage of roses, for I made the trip in a Ryan monoplane-brougham type, sistership to the one Lindbergh now owns...
Suggest that Correspondent Bassett obtain some back copies of Aviation and learn what is going on in the world outside of Boston...
Aside from the general excellence of TIME news, I note as well a marked improvement in the LETTERS, those in the issue of April 23 being especially noted by intelligence and common sense on the part of several writers, Francis A. Thompson, John C. Wright, J. F. Bassett, particularly one by Thomas O. Marvin. I agree in the main with R. W. Graham, but the most effective way to deal with Heflin is to apply Irvin Cobb's "The Thunders of Silence," thus removing him from the pages of every newspaper of consequence. By ignoring him you obliterate...
...John Bassett Moore has been the sole U. S. judge to sit on the august bench of the World Court since it was established in 1921. Last week he resigned, although his nine-year term would not have expired until...