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...beg the New York Times to issue a categorical and sharp denial of these absurd and irresponsible stories. . . . I not only authorize, I implore you to protest energetically in my name against the ridiculous distortions of my scientific work by popular journalism, which represent me as an inventor of a specific against idiocy."-Dr. Eugen Steinach, to the New York Times Vienna correspondent last week...
...hardly think TIME can claim to be "on its toes" in the Cinema column. So we beg you to fear nothing. When Cinema officials encourage cinema directors to muckrake sewers for ideas give your critics a free hand to tell...
...Simply -" Sirs: I beg to advise that your cinema reviews are simply -.* Two cases in point appear in TIME, Aug. 12. The one having to do with Street Girl would have kept me away from that picture. The one about The Single Standard would have fortified me in my hour of waiting to get into the Capitol to see it. The two pictures merited just the opposite treatment. Street Girl was splendid entertainment, the acting capable and mature. The other could fix the attention only of one who had never been places, who was attracted by the liquefaction of Garbo...
...Sirs: I beg leave to call your attention to a statement in the July 8 issue of TIME, page 13, column 2 near the bottom of the page: "Japan once planned to annex Hawaii by intensive colonization." I challenge anyone to produce a bit of documentary evidence to prove this statement-or any evidence that would be accepted by the courts of any civilized nation This statement savors of international slander; it is bad etiquette and miserable ethics. To say the least, it is totally unworthy of a magazine that professes the accuracy and other qualities of TIME. EARL...
...Argentine Navy have no money to pay for the new destroyers, they had no money to pay port dues for their transport, were forced to steam away and use the free anchorage at Cowes, off Southampton. There was no money to buy supplies. Officers and sailors had to beg money from friends to buy food...