Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other day, going through some old copies of TIME, I noticed the Letters column in the Dec. 22, 1924 issue. In that copy of the magazine, we printed the following letter from a reader in Chicago with a brief, pertinent editor's comment...
...girl from the back, a professional with the company, told him she wanted to change her dress. "Don't change now," he pleaded hoarsely. "Lee would positively have a fit." After motioning a tall boy into place as head of a column of soldiers, he surveyed the group for a second. "Nonononono," he said, "Don Jose is short and fat. We can't have the soldiers taller than he. Change your positions...
...afternoon New Jersey veered into the Republican column, and the race for control of the U.S. Senate was tied. Neuberger's interest in the matter warmed when, at 3:50, he learned that he was 109 votes ahead. "Isn't this the damnedest thing. I mean the fact that the entire U.S. Senate rests right in this kitchen," he declared. "Right in this kitchen," he repeated...
...obituary in your Milestones column [Oct 25] about my father, although not intentionally so, I am sure, is cruelly misleading. Your phrase, "born into grinding poverty in the Mississippi backwoods," connotes a "Tobacco Road" environment. Like most formerly affluent Southern families, following the Civil War, his was impoverished financially, but his were the riches of the influence of a Spartan but cultured mother and a cherished heritage from his father, a Confederate cavalry officer. Your statement that he "roared around town yelling 'Hiya, boy' " is simply not true. He was not uncouth, as suggested, but very much...
...make no rash claims about treatments for multiple sclerosis. This baffling disease of unknown origin afflicts an estimated 250,000 in the U.S. with varying degrees of incapacity, usually in the legs and arms, often involving speech and vision. Damaging the nerve sheaths in the brain and spinal column, multiple sclerosis may take many forms, from a quickly fatal attack to a 30-year lingering illness punctuated by long periods of relative freedom. Histamine, vitamins and a variety of drugs have aroused high hopes in some researchers and their patients, only to prove disappointing in the long...