Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flabella Sirs: TIME was correct in stating "ostrich-plumed flabella" in its account of the procession on the Feast of Corpus Christi as opposed to accuracy- loving Fraser Nairn who insists that they were peacock fans. Recent newsreels of the event prove that. Perhaps Mrs. Drexel's peacock-feathered flabella have been retired. However, her gift to the pontiffs was conspicuously absent on this occasion. JOHN E. P. MclLVAINE Minneapolis, Minn...
...want to congratulate TIME'S editor on its section on Medicine. Statements are always brief and nearly always correct. The issue of July 3 contained much information regarding the ductless glands, nearly all correct, but parathyroid tumors are accompanied by an increase in the parathyroid hormone which abstracts calcium from the bones and so leads to softening and cyst formation. Removing the tumor reduces the amount of parathyroid hormone and allows the bones to regain calcium...
...letter is not correct, the note is counterfeit. But even if it is, the bill may still be counterfeit...
...Jelliffe's collaborator, Dr. White, testified to the insanity by which Clarence Darrow got life imprisonment for Chicago's pervert-murderers Leopold and Loeb in 1924. *Correct answer, according to Dr. Jelliffe: "One has feathers and the other has wings." †Which Dr. Jelliffe said everyone knows are not fish...
...Surrogate Foley eliminated 2.,294 claims. After eleven months of spectacular hearings four fifth-degree relatives settled for $2,125,000. All suits to break the will were dropped. Last week $40,000,000 was the estimate of the estate's value. If that estimate is correct, then $7,000,000 ( 17%½ ) will go to each of the following...