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...local dailies. Bridge, Mah Jong, and all that other junk is pestering people to death. TIME has boasted of being a "Newsmagazine" and it is. Therefore keep it so. That is what I keep TIME for: NEWS, REAL NEWS ! I for one value TIME for its terse, crisp news...
Since the envelope was long, crisp, important, a flunky in tight breeches and silver braid carried it gingerly to the Chamberlain, Admiral Herr von Reuber Paschwitz. More in amaze than anger, the Admiral muttered "Dummkopf! Blockhead!" ripped, discovered the letter to be signed by Major Judson Hannigan (able morale developer, training camp inspirationalist, generous cup and counsel donor to promising rookies) 104th Infantry, Boston, Mass...
...Under each was a woman's name, an address. Five insets adorned the board, four containing tin-types of handsome human females coifed and prinked as was the fashion 35 years ago. The fifth inset, placed in the midst of the collection, showed a young man of Apollonian mien?crisp, curly hair, square forehead, forceful jaw, roguish eye. That was the way one J. Roy Tucker, now a slightly bald, portly oil man of 55, looked in his college days. Mr. Tucker was not reticent with the newsgatherer...
...Harvard 3, Mr. B. F. Wright will speak on Sociological Jurisprudence--"a window-dressing title," says Mr. Wright, "for some remarks on the newer tendencies in American law, procedural and substantive." It has suggested itself to the Vagabond as he was musing on the meaning of those two crisp and noble words Sociological Jurisprudence--that the "signs wit hindications" are pointing to the need for speedy changes in American law. Much might be said of the sociological aspects of the recent much bruited crime wave--the Vagabond is not going to say anything about them. Much more might be said...
Very different, though of a kindred ruminative type, are two books by U. S. commentators upon Europe. They quote no ballads, songs or snatches; but one, a young Columbia University Assistant Professor "on the make" has turned out a very crisp and searing exposé5 of the hypocritical process by which the white man shoulders a "burden" of profitable produce which he has made the colonial native extract from soil rightly his. The other U. S. ruminator cited is the Editor of Foreign Affairs.6 He starts with such elementals as that "Balkans" was originally a Turkish word meaning simply...