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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Reference letter of Mr. Custis Knapp regarding BOY SCOUTS [TIME. Aug. 291 I would suggest that you enquire of tl Official Army Register. Jan 1, 1927, as to his Army status; and if you find, as I have done, that he has no connection with the Army I request that you so state in your department of LETTERS. I would further suggest that this bit of research should have been done prior to publishing Mr. Knapp's letter. In the event that the Official Army Register is not among your works of reference it can be had from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Back from a naval mission to Brazil came Rear Admiral Newton Alexander McCully, U. S. N. Reporters were not surprised to find him accompanied by six children, none of whose faces bore the slightest resemblance to the face of Admiral McCully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Private Orphanage | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...other expeditions were active in Palestine, representing seven nations, but their reports were scant. Sir Flinders Petrie, aged 74, and for decades an outstanding Egyptologist, transferred his attention to southern Palestine?"Egypt over the border," he called it? where he thought he might find the origins of the Badarian culture in Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diggers | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...American Museum of Natural History. His discoveries have strengthened the theory that Asia was the point of dispersal of Mammalia. Civic ructions impeded his work last year (TIME, April 26, 1926), but last spring he was off again to try and add evidence of humans to his unparalleled find of dinosaurs and their eggs, baluchitheria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diggers | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...much whiskey, balance her accounts for her. Jerry is not so attractive with a leg cut off. And the lacerations on Gay's lovely little throat are not nearly so costly as the fractures in her reputation, the smear on her soul. She is fairly lucky to find a market for the remains of her "class" in a night club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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