Word: column
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In a recent issue of TIME in your Cinema column you print, "Those who knew Adolphe Menjou when he was a waiter in a Cleveland chop house. . . ." If facts are of any interest to your valuable publication I shall be very happy to furnish a complete history of my life. Although I have followed a number of professions, I have up to the present never been a waiter in real life...
Well, I see by your letter page that Life also has a letter page. So I buy a copy of Life and see that it now has a political department, a sport and radio column. And then, that sap, Will Rogers, bigger than any of TIME'S saps, is writing for Life...
...last fortnight, of partisans of two potent peers, goliaths of British journalism, engaged in a battle to the death. It was Northumberland v. Rothermere, 8th Duke v. ist Viscount, a Percy v. a Harmsworth, the ultraconservative London Morning Post v. the mighty Daily Mail. For battlefield they had unstinted columns of the two papers; for ammunition they used massed figures, of circulation, of advertising, of anything. Pained at the Daily Mail's persistent claims to a circulation of close to 2,000,000, Northumberland opened the war. With Ducal dignity, admirable restraint, the Morning Post permitted itself to observe...
...Detroit usually several months after the critics have passed on them in TIME. Haven't money to waste on not good shows, haven't time to go over old copies of TIME to find what TIME said several months ago. I might file clippings from the Theatre column...
...that way? I know more dentists in U. S. than do all the column writers put together. I can mention scores of big game hunters, mountain climbers and real soldiers from the list of any dental society and prove to you that as a class the dental profession is as valorous as any and more than most...