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...emblem suggested by Bernard Frank for Henry Wallace [TIME, Jan. 19] seems to be a natural, inasmuch as HAW in a farmer's language means a left turn. . . . CARROLL D. COFFIELD Cleveland, Ohio

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...HAW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...initials of Henry A. Wallace . . . spell HAW, I suggest as his party's emblem the Haw tree (Viburnum prunifolium), specifically the Black Haw, sometimes called the Stag Bush. Should any artist wish to paint this phenomenon of nature, I give him Charles Sprague Sargent's description (Manual of the Trees of North America; Houghton Mifflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...similarity between the Haw tree and Henry A. Wallace is purely political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...where they hailed from by the way they talked. His batting average: a respectable 80%. He made them pronounce such shibboleths as Mary, marry, merry (people from west of the Appalachians make no distinction), and wash, water, Washington. Smith's most notable failure: his wartime insistence that Lord Haw-Haw could not be William Joyce (he was). Smith thought Joyce pronounced longer, hunger and German like a German-American, not an Irish-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Linguistic Quickstep | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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