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Britain told Finland last week to stop fighting Russia. His Majesty's Government, in a curt note, warned the Finns that if they did not halt their attack at the 1939 Russo-Finnish border they would be treated by Britain as enemies, now and after...
Sirs: TIME (July 21) asserts that Senator Wheeler has said: "There will be revolution in this this country if damnable the war. . . ." Administration gets us into To which TIME'S curt, pert editor adds: "Not in Atlanta, Ga., where Senator Wheeler was refused the use of the city auditorium." Let TIME think again. This is revolution. Whatever one thinks of Burt Wheeler's views, it is Nazi revolution when our Constitution is ignored and a U.S. Senator-or any other American, for that matter-is denied his right to express his opinion on public policy in a public...
Smuggled out of Germany by ways & means which émigré Editor Curt Riess will not disclose, the diary has been deciphered (Leske sometimes wrote German shorthand); translated into rational language (Leske wrote a febrile Nazi slang); the entries dated, edited and rearranged. If, as Editor Riess (who knew Leske) believes, the diary is authentic, it is the first full-length self-portrait in English of the Nazi bomber's mind...
...they did last year. The team relied on a mighty slugger named Slaughter and two other outfielders who hit over .300. They had First Baseman Johnny Mize, No. 1 home-run hitter of 1940. But their pitching was questionable, their fielding unreliable. To replace Outfielder Joe Medwick, Pitcher Curt Davis and Catcher Mickey Owen, three Old Reliables recently sold to the rival Brooklyn Dodgers, Manager Southworth had brought up a batch of green rookies from the Cardinals' far-flung farms...
Your slogan seems to be "Curt, Clear, Complete." One meaning of "curt" is rude. Now I could refer to your editors as "bowlegged waddies," "brocklefaced bozos," "drugstore caballeros" or "maverick-roping rustlers," and perhaps accomplish nothing but a feeling of resentment on their part. That would be rude. Besides, it would not be true. But the point I am trying to make is that your writers go out of their way to describe their subjects as "potbellied," "bullnecked," "paunchy," and the like. By so doing they invite ill will, engender resentment, and offend the nice sensibilities, for instance, of foreign...