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Anent the vituperative letter of one George Eustis Corcoran (TIME, May 21) relative to your publication of Samuel Insull's bashful physiognomy and the reporting of the Astor-Gillespie folderol, may we accept the compliment of "Being on a level" with TIME...
...interest Mr. Corcoran to know that five members of the Police Gazette staff subscribe to TIME individually...
GEORGE EUSTIS CORCORAN...
...House. Few members understood the measure's technicalities and fewer still cared to. Republicans made more of its past than its future. Illinois' Britten charged that it was written by "the scarlet fever boys in the little red house in Georgetown"-a dig at Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen, New Deal legalites who keep bachelor hall at $50 each per month in an old brick house in Washington's suburb. The whole country, said this hard-bitten Congressman, was whispering about these "radicals." Shouted Ohio's Truax: "They're not radical enough!" Stolid Representative...
Other evidence adduced last week of Presidential tastes: 1) The President and Mrs. Roosevelt selected 32 paintings from the Public Works exhibit at the Corcoran Art Gallery to hang in the White House offices. His favorite was Winter Street by A. H. Pearson of Chicago. The President said none of the pictures shows despondency and anyone can tell at a glance what they represent. 2) At a convention of bandmasters in Toronto. Lieut. Charles Benter, conductor of the U. S. Navy Band, reported that the President's musical tastes were "pretty broad," that for relaxation he liked to hear...