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Relative your article TIME, June 7 on the word "jalopy" and Webster R. Kent's comments (TIME, June 21), I think you are both in error. Approximately ten years ago while in a Los Angeles café with the late Herbert Somborn, ex-husband of Gloria Swanson, approximately eight mulatto dancing girls appeared. Mr. Somborn exclaimed: "What beautiful jalopies!" Pressing him for information, he stated that a jalopy was anything half black and that the word originated in a certain part of Africa, where plurals are unknown, and a jalopy is a African half black geese...
...released by nicking a small lever. Insisting on its installation, the Brotherhoods four years ago got the Interstate Commerce Commission to order it. Because each installation costs $500, the railroads fought the case to the U. S. Supreme Court where the I.C.C. ruling was reversed because of a technical error...
Sirs: Your statement in the May 31 issue, under "Russians to the Pole," that North Pole party member Ernest Krenkel was radio officer with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1930, geographically is completely in error, inasmuch as he at the time occupied the very northernmost human habitation, almost at exact antipodes from Little America. The erroneous press reports probably arise from misinterpretation of Krenkel's remarks that his present radio equipment is based on his (communication) experience with the Byrd Expedition in 1930. Occasional two-way radio communication with station RPX of the Russian Polar Expedition on Fridtjof Nansen...
Having accepted the ability of masters of celestial mechanics to predict the paths and times of eclipses years ahead, laymen are surprised when the prophecies are a few miles or a few seconds in error. Last week in Peru Dr. Serge A. Korff of the Carnegie Institution reported that the eclipse lasted ten seconds longer than the computations called for, and a Japanese savant declared that it began ten seconds later than expected. The fault is not with human mathematics, but with a mysterious wobbling of the moon from its orbit...
Swiftly social censers moved to block further error, taking the stand that "lawns need no decorating". Handed down "per order Chief Justice" were decisions regarding proper places to sunbathe. Henceforth inquisitive Harvard-men may expect to find vitamin D enthusiasts half nude--behind the observatory, wholly nude--the solarium...