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Would that my boy showed as much initiative in mathematics as your juvenile correspondent, Richard Wilson, of Davenport, Iowa [TIME, Mar. 15, LETTERS]. But I think Richard is comparing oranges with apples. The rate he quotes from Davenport to Charleston, S. C., is the so-called evening rate. The Union (City?), N. J., man who talked 41 minutes to Charleston evidently used the day rates on a person-to- person call. It makes a difference...
...Dickson '27, and I. J. Fain '27, with George Slaff '26, and A. F. Reel '28 as alternates. Of these Dickson is the only one who spoke in the triangular debates last year. The Yale team is composed of H. G. Rowell, H. H. Thomas, Basil Davenport, and H. G. Hayes, alternate...
...winter, Henry Gardiner Symonds, of Hinsdale, Illinois, Sidney A. Swenrud, of Northwood, Iowa, Osgood Stevens Lovekin, of Riversdale, California, have been elected, and from the regular class which entered last September, Edmund Philip Learned, of Lawrence, Kansas, Harry Gay Anderson, of Waterbury, Conn., and Henry Traugott Dunker '25, of Davenport, Iowa...
...enjoy your magazine TIME very much. I am 12 years old and live in Davenport, Iowa. I find in your issue of TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, that an item entitled "Shrewd," the second item under the head of "Miscellany," is sort of funny. It is about a man that cheats a store proprietor out of a lot of money on a telephone call. As you will find if you read the item, the call was given at Union City, N. J. to Charleston, S. C. The man talked 41 minutes and told the proprietor it cost $1.75. In reality...
...Davenport, Iowa...