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...that I had precisely as much to do with the book as Calvin Coolidge or Jack Dempsey had. There is, as you say, a "coterie of newsmen" who meet now and then and settle the affairs of the world, but it is no more a "Georgetown Group" than a Flatbottom Group. It includes some hard-boiled conservatives. It does not include some of those you name, and if any of its members gave birth to chapters in the Merry-Go-Round they retired into a corner to do it. I can stand being labeled a Georgetownite (though I live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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