Word: jackrabbits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I have just had the fun of reading your breezy article under the caption "Atavism" (TIME, Jan. 17). As a Western Jackrabbit to an Eastern Jackass may I not congratulate you? The five columns which you so generously devoted to my little home town, are yellower than Hearst at his best. As a matter of fact, you have out-Bonsfilsed Bonsfils-and that is a mighty hard thing to do-in old woman's gossip, and in exaggerated and distorted fact. . . . (DR.) JAMES A. COCHRAN...
...charge right into the spectator's heart. But after the first half of his film Griffith reins in his Pegasus. He strives to increase the suspense by drawing out his scenes, which often makes them thin, haggard. His favorite trick of shifting scenes abruptly demands-at times-a jackrabbit alertness. But through It all runs a simple, yet eloquent romance. Griffith has made history and fiction listen to their master's voice. The battle of Bunker Hill is done with all the sincerity of the original. On the whole, a beacon light of American history, first...