Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Please tell an interested subscriber the technical device used in Hell's Angels in the scene in which the airplane cut into the Zeppelin (TIME. June 29). I understand no models were used. Is this correct? If so how did the pilot of the plane get out in time...
...name O. M. Bodenhamer . . . and to have stated that he was given the "bum's rush" was probably using a term far below the dignity attached to one who only recently headed that magnificent group of Americans, the American Legion. I think you owe him apology, and should correct his name. No "Bodenheimer" was ever given the "bum's rush" and, most likely, "Bodenhamer" should not have been so accused...
...have read many accounts, written by those who thought they were well-informed in the matter, of the early history of the Ford Motor Co. and have yet to find one that is correct in all its details. Up to date, I've been merely amused at some of the statements and have not thought it worth my while to challenge them. However, when I read, "In 1903 Malcomson helped Henry Ford start his motor company but, ashamed of the venture, invested under Couzens' name," I'm annoyed at the stupidity of such a statement...
...Running his fingers over the "Van Rensselaer" plates he announced at once that they "didn't feel right." A more careful examination convinced him that the service was of plain Lowestoft porcelain which had been skilfully decorated on top of the glaze, then sandpapered to give approximately the correct "feel...
That is how I came to read "Goodbye to Western Culture." Pure sensationalism" was not quite correct; that I soon saw. Still, the now venerable Norman Douglas, in this thoroughgoing balance of Western against Eastern ills, cannot be judged entirely free of a "will to sell," and in large numbers. To a reader who knows "South Wind" and "In the Beginning" the descent of this author to mere invective is distasteful, even though his thrusts are true and well-turned...