Word: letter-to-the-editor
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...perpetual subscribers never had to be reminded that their subscriptions were up for renewal. Nor did they have any reason for getting in touch with us beyond recording a change of address now and then or writing an occasional letter-to-the-editor. Recently it occurred to us that we knew very little about these very special readers-and we ought to know a great deal about any group which had so much faith in the then unproved TIME idea that it would accept such an offer...
...every Yuletide since 1897, the staid New York Sun last week reprinted the famed letter-to-the-editor from eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, and the Sun's richly sentimental reply: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus . . ." Last week, Sun Funnyman H. I. ("Hi") Phillips jumped the gun on the editorial with a concoction of his own: a letter from a Virginia who asks the editor of Moscow's Pravda, "Is there a Santa Claus? . . . (Papa says, 'If you see it in Pravda...
...wonders, Harold A. Taylor,†† who at 33 is president of New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College. President Taylor accused Hutchins (who at 48 is a kind of boy wonder emeritus) of living in the sterile past. Wrote Taylor in a column-long letter-to-the-editor in the New York Times...
Grand Central's stardusted ceiling has always been a focal point for both esthetic and astrological controversy. On at least one point-placement of Zodiac signs and constellations-Designer James Monroe Hewlett came a cropper. As one letter-to-the-editor writer once informed the New York Times: "The ceiling stars were all put on exactly backward. Their arrangement ii a mirror image. . . . This reversal is, of course, as confusing as a map showing New York on the West Coast and San Francisco on the East. . . otherwise, very accurate...
...there is such a thing as a great letter-to-the-editor writer, New York City Park Commissioner Robert Moses is it. His work may not rank with Voltaire's, Ben Franklin's or George Bernard Shaw's, but it commands attention. For or against, he is always long and strong...