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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Permit me to correct an error in your article on Hawk Mountain Sanctuary [TIME, Oct. 11]. You say that Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is "the only spot in the world where birds of prey are protected." This is not strictly accurate: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is the only sanctuary in the world primarily for the birds of prey, but these birds are protected together with other species of wild life in the National Parks and certain other sanctuaries. Particularly the National Association of Audubon Societies is to be congratulated on the reversal of its policy regarding the birds of prey. The Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...will be on the air tonight at 9 p.m. Having nothing better to do, I dry the dishes and run the vacuum cleaner from 8:30 to 9. I then ascend the stairs to the den and turn on the radio. I check the paper to find out the correct station. I am burned up to discover that you or the Blue Network or some other fiend has again changed the time to 8:30, and I have missed the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Blue Network of National Broadcasting Co. was prepared several weeks in advance and printed in early, color-advertising pages. Originally scheduled to be broadcast from 9 to 9:30 p.m., E. S. T., the MARCH OF TIME was at the last moment advanced another half hour (too late to correct the advertisement) when a shift of other radio programs on the NBC Blue Network made available an earlier period (8:30 p.m. E. S. T.). To Reader Nicely and others who came in for the tail-end of its first broadcast over NBC, the MARCH OF TIME extends an invitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Correct pronunciation: Feerpo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Margit is not a bit like Charlie. In her well-appointed home all menus are typewritten. Eggs are boiled in electrical gadgets to insure correct timing, the gardener waters the lawn when the paper says the weather will be good, even if he has to do it in the pouring rain. Margit runs a gown-shop and the lives of everyone around her. She only makes a deal with Charlie Lodge to keep him from splitting, caddishly, Irene and Waldo. The deal is that if he stops fascinating Irene, Margit will pose for her portrait-for three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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