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Sirs: Your usually accurate and impartial publication has swallowed in one gulp a whole cup full of the juice of."sour grapes." Apparently without making any effort whatever to check his story, you have printed a lengthy letter from James Backton of Hollywood, Calif., with regard to his arrest in Mississippi which does bitter injustice to the people of this expanding Southern Slate (TIME, April...
...food was not provided. The next morning she raised a great storm on the lake, and when she came to shore she began to slaughter the men of the Fiana who were assembled there. One hundred and one persons she took at a gulp, and before midday she had finished off more than half the men of the Fiana. She swallowed the son of the King of Greece, and the son of the Fiana's captain, Finn Mac Cool. Thereupon that hero gave a sudden rush, gripped the monster by one of her joints, and flipped her over...
...Berlin and 17 visiting members of the French Chamber of Deputies cornered him at a tea with this question: "Can you assure us that the settlement of the World War is now final insofar as any German claims are concerned?" Flushing darkly, von Ribbentrop finished his tea at a gulp, stalked off to Das Büro Ribbentrop. His 15-year-old son, he presently announced, would go in England to swank Westminster School, although there is in London a special 100% Nazi school to which local Germans are urged by strongest Nazi pressure to send their sons. In late...
Newspapers measure history in daily doses. Weeklies can take it in more concentrated form. Historians often swallow a century at a gulp. In The Hundred Years, Philip Guedalla, historian with a fine journalistic palate, combines these time-tasting methods. In 400 pages he has arranged the savoriest moments of the last 100 years in a bill-of-fare to suit the taste of journalistic historians, history-minded journalists and plain readers. Of the 14 years he dishes up, only six are pre-1900. Some of them...
...flowing into his air-tight suit, that he was about to suffocate. Frantically he tried to open the zipper of his suit and the window of his plane. Failing, he used the last remnant of his strength to snatch a knife from the wall, slit open his helmet, gulp the air that rushed...