Word: eds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME made no "attack" on Conductor Ormandy, whom it rates highly but less high than Conductors Toscanini, Koussevitzky, or Reader Stokowski's ex-husband.-ED...
...TIME intended no innuendo, meant just what it said: that the Braniff Airways crash (a Douglas plane) and the Northwest Airlines crash (a Lockheed) were outstanding cases of mechanical failure.-ED...
...uncertain when this simplification and corruption occurred, but it must have been almost 200 years ago. The Rev. Ed. S. Taylor's famous history of playing cards, published in 1865, quoting from the memoirs of Barere and de Bachaumont, says that creps was one of the principal games played in the gambling houses of the Palais Royal in Paris in the latter part of the 18th Century. In 1818, long before craps was popular in the U. S., the Bibliothéque Historique referred to "one table of craps" as among the frivolities of the gambling houses of Paris...
...Thanks to Historian Asbury for what TIME hopes is a definitive explanation.-ED...
...TIME did err in one of these seven points: it was not Harvardman Allen but a member of the orchestra who made the gloomy, ungrammatical remark, "Things aren't like they used t be." For the rest, TIME does not take back what it said.-ED...