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...Banks, as you know, edits a checker magazine himself. I rather think he was jesting with you. He is the ace of checker players-in the U. S. A. at least. C. B. BENNETT...
...Banks' offer to conduct a checker column in TIME is one which I wish you would accept...
Sirs: Would reply to letter you printed (TIME, April 25) whereby Champion Checker-player Banks desires to write a column on his hobby for TIME. Is it feasible in such a publication as yours ? I think not, absolutely and positively do I answer in the negative. No! If you start one, there is apt to be a deluge of requests for further. What of philately-stamp collecting-of which King George V is one of the leading collectors ? . . . There are many and varied other columns that might be conducted, AND, I think, other columns which WOULD be more attractive...
...Sirs! We don't want any checker column in TIME. We have enough of that stuff in the local dailies. Bridge, Mah Jong, and all that other junk is pestering people to death. TIME has boasted of being a "Newsmagazine" and it is. Therefore keep it so. That is what I keep TIME for: NEWS, REAL NEWS ! I for one value TIME for its terse, crisp news...
...TIME adopts a checker column I will have to deviate from the practice of reading your newsmagazine from cover to cover as I did when you printed the game of questions...