Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside your magazine you print the picture of a benevolent, timidly smiling, white-haired gentleman. Inside your magazine you print the story of Devereux Milburn, aggressive, hard riding, cyclonic captain of the U. S. Polo Team. Which is which? I have seen Milburn, talked to him; watched him play. As a rabid polo fan and a strenuously American citizen I resent your artist, S. J. Woolf's drawing. I enclose a copy of a drawing printed in Polo, which translates the indomitable power of the real Milburn into black and white lines on paper. P. L. FINK...
...research should have been done prior to publishing Mr. Knapp's letter. In the event that the Official Army Register is not among your works of reference it can be had from the Superintendent, of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for one dollar. J. W. COTTON Captain, Infantry ( Subscriber ) Columbus, Ga. "Fat an Apple" Sirs: Why all the letters concerning Mr. Knapp and Boy Scouts? Why bother to associate the two [TIME. Aug. 29] ? Every one knows the fineness of the Scout movement. I would suggest that your readers who are quibbling over Mr, Knapp...
Going below, Captain Aubert found his passengers picking themselves up, putting themselves to rights, after being tumbled about for three minutes as in a brutal storm. Fortunately, the only damage was minor bruises, sprains and a scratch in the left hand of right-handed Jean Borotra, Davis Cup tennis man from France...
...efficiency of a radio telephone, evolved by Captain K. E. Hartley of the British Territorial Forces, for use in army tanks, was exhibited last week on Salisbury Plain, England. Any member of a tank crew could operate it. Fine tuning had been eliminated by employing low frequency waves and a powerful, seven-tube superheterodyne receiver. Padded headphones protected the listener from internal and external din. The aerial, a hollow aluminum rod ten feet high, was equipped with a spring hinge to let it fold on the tank roof going under trees or bridges, rise erect again when they were passed...
Married. Isidore Zarakov, captain of Harvard's 1927 baseball nine, to Miss Lillian Silverman; in Boston...