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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Permit me to call your attention to an error which evidently escaped your notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

Wasn't that a typographical error in the story you published in the current issue of TIME (July 25, p. 23, col. 3) under the head: "Elks" where you refer to them at their Cincinnati convention as 5,000 strong, "marching, singing, trapshooting, eating 'burgoo' [Kentucky stew], watching fire-works." I visited Cincinnati the following week and heard nothing of trapshooting, but everybody could point out to me the big hotel in front of which crap-shooting was indulged in openly and without molestation by the police authorities. Of course I was told this with a wry face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

There was no typographical error. Trap-shooting contests for Elks were held at Coney Island, a Cincinnati play park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...error, Captain Coli has no wife. (His mother lives in Marseilles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...Kent.-ED *TIME did not strain after such far-fetched conceits as "inhaling strawberries" but declared: "The strawberries were eaten by Foreign Minister Briand of France. . . Soon ... a rash broke out on M. Briand. (TIME, July 4.)-ED. †Cyril H. D. Dillington-Dowse (TIME, June 13)-ED. *An error. Eight-point or brevier is used. On the Letter Page, six-point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Suggest & Recommend | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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