Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lusty Poet Robert Burns stood posthumously revealed as a pillar of unexpected propriety." In a holograph letter sold at a London auction last week, Bobby told an author friend that he had once lent a sailor a copy of his book. The book, said the poet, had so affected the sailor that instead of seducing a girl friend, he had married...
...this writing Editor Hall has received more than 300 airmail letters. He wonders: "What do you suppose will happen when the boat mail begins to arrive?" Although a majority of the letters bear a U.S. postmark, others have come from Continental Europe, Latin America, and as far away as Wendji-Coq in the Belgian Congo. Furthermore, to Hall's surprise and gratification, 90% of the letters enclose subscription orders. Says he: "What impresses me is the complete faith TIME readers must have in their magazine. Almost every letter had in it money or checks. To have money sent...
...only communication that has stumped Editor Hall is a four and a half page letter written by an American entirely in code. Another, from a Missouri schoolboy, asked for Sherlock Holmes's help in apprehending a schoolmate suspected of filching goodies from his classmates' lunch boxes. Hall advised the boy to make sure of his facts before accusing a fellow human being, and told him to do as Holmes did: watch his man. There were other letters which began: "Bless your heart for letting me write a letter at last to 221 B Baker Street and know that...
That probably did it. Francis Cardinal Spellman, speaking from his elevated position in the hierarchy of the U.S. Catholic Church, spread his wrath across a letter to her and forthwith made it public...
...laymen of the Roman Catholic faith." She described Cardinal Mindszenty as "the center and the symbol of resistance during the Nazi occupation" and added: "There is no excuse for the action that has been taken by the [Hungarian] government." On Jan. 18 she reported the gist of a letter she had had from an editor (whom she did not name) who "claims that the Cardinal is a reactionary, if not a fascist and a notorious anti-Semite . . . Certainly," she added, "I am in no position to say whether the facts, as sent to me by this man, are true...