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Deliberately, with exactness, the editors of TIME make choice of their words, their phrases. Startled, therefore, was I to find in one and the same category these: 'Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers. ..." ("The Press," TIME, Dec. 29). I do not read trash. Comic-strips to me are senseless. I do not chew gum. But of crosswords-I do spend considerable time fitting in the interlocking words on occasion. Others, I think, may feel as I do about your classification. Crossword puzzles and indulgence therein have met no end of favor in a variety of circles...
Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers are satisfied by the noises which may be transmitted to them over the ether. But even in their case, and though they delight in listening in on Presidential speeches, football games, ball games, jazzy funnymen, first aid lectures, bed-time stories and advice to mothers, their interest is thus aroused in their newspapers. They delight in reading what they have heard. Many of Mr. Rose's friends told him that radio has made them read the newspaper accounts more eagerly. More critically...