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Challenge Sirs: A feeling of mental asphyxiation engulfed me when I had analyzed the communication published at the head of TIME'S "Letters" column, issue May 22. As the signer is a close kin of mine I am overcome with a sense of responsibility. How such an undiplomatic note crept by the family censor I cannot comprehend, but it is not for me to offer excuses. To Secretary of Treasury Woodin, Colonel Louis McHenry Howe and TIME'S artist, who were mentioned in the same passage with "Australian Bushman" and "Bloodhound," humblest apologies. The distinguished Treasury head, Colonel...
...within the family John Martin was far from being the "crown prince." Snowy-bearded Old Man Curtis was well-beloved by all his kith & kin but he could not get the Boks to share his enthusiasm for the Martins. His only child, Mrs. Bok, resented his marriage to ''Cousin Kate" Pillsbury so soon after her own mother's death. Her displeasure was inherited by her sons. In this family feud, polite and unobtrusive though it was. the Lorimers sided with the Boks against the Martins. For a long while the name of Mrs. Lorimer never appeared...
...Spada's proud pout deepened when General Fournier and his men began combing the wild, pine-covered mountains, posted a fat reward to breed traitors among Spada's kin, gave rifles to 200 reporters and let them join in the hunt. A few lesser bandits were caught, but not Spada. Reporters, Fournier, armored cars and bloodhounds went home. A few of the gendarmes stayed, plodding patiently over the mountains, baying now & then on Spada's faint trail. But Spada was nowhere...
Tall, well set up, "Jack" Fuess went to Amherst where he roomed for a year with Bruce Barton and knew its present President Stanley King. He married an Andover girl. Elizabeth Gushing Goodhue (no kin to Grace Goodhue Coolidge), has a son, John Gushing Fuess, who will be Harvard's baseball manager in 1935. The Fuesses live in what they call "the ugliest house in the world," a drab, gingerbready place on Hidden Road in Andover. "Jack" Fuess plays good contract bridge, good golf. When he dubs he remembers his German ancestry and cries: "Drei hundert tausend donnerwetters...
...kin to the founders of Collier's magazine...