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Digging up material for a New Jersey almanac, Author Harry B. Weiss ran across the 1818 report of famed English Radical William Cobbett, in A Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States. Excerpt: "I have just dined upon cold ham, cold veal, butter and cheese and a peach pye; nice clean room, well furnished, waiter clean and attentive, plenty of milk; and charge, a quarter of a dollar. I had not the face to pay the waiter a quarter of a dollar; but gave him half a dollar, and told him to keep the change...
With reference to the cover portrait of TIME, Aug. 18. . . . Excerpt from the records of the Lower Slobbovia delegate...
...Madrid, the daily Informaciones erupted in a front-page editorial, titled TIME and a Lady. Excerpt: TIME'S cover story last week "narrates the trip of Doña Eva Perón to Spain with such bad taste, stupid style, lack of good behavior, so boorishly in sum that we find ourselves obliged as well-born people to declare our profound contempt, our nausea, not only at the useless falsehoods this narration contains but at its grossness, coarseness, its undissimulated irritation and its lack of respect for a lady, the wife of the chief of a state...
...know, a major concern of the U.S. and the world press. A corollary of this problem, the Soviet press itself, is the subject of a recent report by Craig Thompson, now home from a two-year tour of duty for TIME & LIFE in Moscow. The following excerpt from it may interest...
...herself never went to school much, "owing to the cold, and not warm enough clothing." But last week she did try her unschooled hand at an article (in the New York Times Magazine) to explain how she goes about painting. The Times printed it just as she wrote it. Excerpt...