Word: june
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: TIME, June 20, p. 6, col. 3 says "no flies . . . can bother the President. At 3,500 feet . . . flies . . . cease . . . mosquito weakens." Scenic enthusiasts rush for the front platform of cograil-road car up Mt. Washington (6,293 ft. above sea level is the-summit). Fortunate ones spend time brushing away cinders, black flies, mosquitoes. The writer killed a very bloody mosquito 5,500 feet above sea level. Black flies penetrate far above timber line. Scientists may disagree, but I had "bites" to prove my case. Keep the red cover. It will aid newsstand sales. Red-white-blue cover...
Sirs: I note in TIME for June 13, 1927, that Reader A. B. Maloire, Chehalis, Wash., is of the opinion that "More Humor" would not be amiss in your magazine. I believe, as I am sure many others of your readers believe, that we buy TIME primarily and principally for the news it gives us, in the way it is given to us, and not for amusement. If Reader Maloire wants humor, there arc plenty of magazines which devote themselves in part, or in whole, to humor. Let him read the humor magazines and leave our newsmagazine...
Sirs: . . . Please cancel my subscription and let me know what I owe you for the one copy at once. . . . I would like to meet Robert Garland Smith of Phila. (col. 1, p. 25, June 20, 1927.) I bet he wears a white collar, drinks whiskey and plays golf...
Sirs: Mr. Borah [TIME, June 27] should not get excited over trout and worms, as there will be far more suckers caught with guile and salve...
Sirs: Just got through dousing Saphead Dowse [TIME, June 13], when up pops saphead John Muller (TIME, June 20) who forgets that our popular American, Colonel Lindbergh, made the New York-to-Paris flight with only three sandwiches and a bottle of milk.* What German could accomplish this wonderful feat with less than a keg of beer, a barrel of sauerkraut and a whole roast pig ? We Americans do first and talk afterwards, that is why we were so successful in the World...