Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Will TIME kindly report the greatest flight- as to number in air at one time-of airplanes on record? See TIME, p. 12, issue of May 19, third column, last sentence: "Never before had so large a fleet of planes flown so far or so well together." Correct perhaps as to "so far" and "so well together" but not as to number. While stationed at Nixville, near Verdun, late in 1918 (September or October, I believe), many American and Allied soldiers including the 5th U. S. Division and others in battle around Montfaucon enjoyed the thrill that came from...
...reply President-elect Prestes, perfectly in the Latin tradition, showed how to employ the raging breast, the flowery metaphor and the torrential expletive while remaining perfectly correct and sleek: "Pan-Americanism, fruit of an ambitious dream! . . . one which only in idealism could be called excessive . . . Pan-Americanism . . . fought against the obstacles which were strewn in its way, triumphed over them even as faith and beauty must always triumph...
Your recent article (TIME, May 26), partly about me, was very friendly, but it had one error which, with your permission, I would like to correct...
...like gilding refined gold to correct facts in TIME. It is a great pleasure to be able in a small way to add to the authenticity of our great dependence for facts...
Carl W. Drepperd has gone far in the attempt to correct this mistake in his "Early American Prints". While his book should prove of interest to the general reading public it should also be of great value to the collector wishing to identify his acquisitions. In this book are listed practically all of the important printmakers of this country down to the time of the Civil War with an account of their most important or most representative works. Of further interest to the novice are the introductory summaries of the various processes of engraving, etching, and lithography...