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...beg to add my protest re your "Dead Hog & Roast Pork" in the Oct. 28 issue. Granting that one reader's roast pork is another's dead hog," '' don't you think the protests printed were nevertheless indicative of the fact that TIME does word things in such a way that biases may be inferred, though perhaps not intended? Your style is intended to be interesting, and is so, but I personally often feel that in the effort to be interesting, you go too far. We have only just started to take TIME regularly...
...sure but rarely exciting. Yet, for all that, the customers got more than their money's worth. Seats for San Carlo opera sell at $1.50 top. The people who patronize it are neither snobs nor sophisticates. In Manhattan and in Chicago the big opera companies have had to beg for their lives. The San Carlo Company, supported only by its box-office takings, toured 20,000 miles last season, made money...
...Five blocks away in Carnegie Hall orchestramen in shirtsleeves rehearsed so relentlessly that a sore-lipped trumpeter had to beg off from a high shrill B. Conducting the players fiercely was Alexander Smallens. Occasionally illustrating a passage at the piano, occasionally clapping his hands to clarify a rhythm, was Composer George Gershwin. Commissioned by the Theatre Guild, he had written the score for what may prove to be the finest attempt yet at a real U. S. opera...
...week at Spital to Austrian-born Adolf Hitler's maternal uncle Anton Schmidt. Austrian neighbors in Spital expected no condolences from the Realmleader. "Uncle Anton," they recalled, tried vainly for years to sponge on his illustrious but close-pursed nephew;. Finally he egged one of his sons to beg Cousin Adolf to send him $3 to buy a Nazi brown shirt. Replied the Realmleader: "Dear Cousin: You must buy your uniform with your own money. I am unable to accommodate...
...Italian soldiers and workers sleep stark naked in the streets to escape the heat; others toil in a blistering sun without cork helmets and still others beg money from Arab sailors to buy food, which they are unable to buy with their meager...