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...intelligentsia . . . cannot be pleased with the "Gum-chewers standard" which you set in printing the gutter-like statements of Mr. Zweiger. Such a letter is not news, it is not literature, it is not even rational...
...reports were carried on the front pages of the press. Miss Millay's libretto was superb: "sensible and singable," quaintly flavored. Only the gum-chewers' Daily News, whose music critic signs herself "Debutante," found the opera lacking in distinction. She falsely announced: "Alas! Those who came . . . may not have scoffed but they certainly did not remain to pray...
...Loeb building at Pine and William Streets, Manhattan, last week. People went running. There was a fire in the building basement. Firemen on trucks swore at the pedestrians. The smoke was very thick. It smelled catastrophic. Firemen on foot, carrying extinguishers elbowed? passage through the crowds. Policemen were angry. Gum-chewers gaped. There were at least 15,000 Wall Street clerks there, crowded so thickly that they forced Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s employes to fight their way out of the smoked banking offices to watch their own fire...
TIME actually does give the events of the day in thorough and concentrated fashion. It does omit surplus verbiage. But it also gives unnecessary and vulgar sensational stories-and it gives these stories in a manner more objectionable than that used by the gum-chewers' sheetlets so greatly decried by TIME...
Sirs : . . . One little suggestion for a better TIME?Don't be so contemptuous of your contemporaries. "Gum-Chewers' Sheetlet," "Pinko Political Weekly," etc. I know nothing about the Gum-Chewers' papers but the New Republic which you call Pinko, I value even above TIME on my magazine list. As for Physical Culture, which you so lately maligned, it has done and is doing much good in the world and deserves better treatment than you have given...