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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selection of news, the selection of Letters is the result of a group effort. It begins when our Letters column staff reads through the mail and ends when the editors have approved the final choices and added editorial comment where appropriate...
...purpose of the Letters column is the same today as when we began it in 1924: to bring you extra items of interest about the news you read in TIME. For example, in the cover story on Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper (TIME, July 5), we used the term "whittledycut" and defined it as meaning a real fine horse race. This created a lively ruckus in Kentucky and elsewhere, with readers writing in to challenge the definition (it was correct); others commented on folk slang in general and enclosed clippings from newspapers about TIME'S mention...
...thousands of letters we receive, we have room to publish only about 21 in the Letters column each week. Many of our readers have asked how these published letters are selected and on what basis. The answer, as we explained in our first Letters column 30 years ago, is this...
After that, it came as no surprise that an unnamed Michigan "undergraduate" wrote a conveniently column-length letter to Corum explaining why Michigan lost. "This was a game between the Married Men, Ohio State, and the Single Men, us," wrote Corum's correspondent. "Of course, we have some married men, too. but we just didn't have enough of 'em. [There are only four married men on the Michigan squad, twelve on Ohio State...
...letter, signed "Phyllis C.," first appeared in the lovelorn column of the Denver Post. But it got around town faster than the biggest Page One story. In Denver offices clippings were passed from hand to hand; secretaries read it over the telephone to each other. Husbands returning home from work had it thrust upon them by their wives, all of whom seemed to have a triumphant gleam in their eyes. By wire service the letter was sent around the U.S. TV stations picked...