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Comrade* Otto Schmidt, 37, learned editor of the Soviet Encyclopaedia (in six volumes), long prominent as Director of the State Book Publishing Monopoly, was announced by Moscow journals, last week, as the new Soviet Ambassador to Italy...
...what made the American achievement possible." (TIME, Sept. 19). Certainly neither of these gentlemen is what Mr. Bratton calls a "Yes man," and I believe they were in a somewhat better position to know what went on behind the scenes than C. B. Bratton was. Maybe not. The Encyclopaedia Britannica changed its opinion of Mr. Baker; but, as you know, it uses logic and not spleen in arriving at conclusions. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that there was no C. B. Bratton in the Army nor Marine Corps in France, either as an officer or enlisted...
...desire for accuracy in all things, I offer a correction. Mr. Wilde was commonly called Oscar Wilde, but he was christened Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. Obviously it was your intention to give Wilde's name in full, but you omitted the Fingal. The Encyclopaedia Britannica also omits it, but nevertheless the name is not correct as you printed...
...addressed to you as a member of Psychology 9. A peculiarly outrageous instance of mutilation has recently occured at the Library in connection with this course. Within a few days the eight final pages of the article on Aesthetics have been torn from the reading-room copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, presumably by some member of the course. Such an act will, I am sure, be promptly and vigorously condemned by every one of the other 35 members of Psychology 9, and even, I hope, by the who who did it, when he reflects that his deed wronged his fellow...
...joints, curing flat feet; whom Great Britain knighted for his orthopedic work on War wrecks; for whom Dr. F. W. Axham lost professional caste and died last year scorned by doctors (TIME, April 19, 1926) ; who wrote the article on "Mani-pulative Surgery" in the newest version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...