Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I have often wondered whether Miscellany is intended to be taken seriously and whether these believe-it-or-nots are verified with your usual care. In particular, being seriously interested in the homing instincts of birds and animals, I did not miss in the issue of TIME dated Aug. 14, the items labeled "Mother" (fleet Italian swallow) and "Toad" (Boston or Bust). Does the Miscellany editor have a pending file that will remind him to find out whether Teddy actually gets home again in April 1941? (Such a smart toad might reason that he is better off in California...
...position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near Poplarville, Miss...
...home comment on the news, NBC picked big-name specialists General Hugh Johnson and Dorothy Thompson. In her broadcast of last Friday night, Miss Thompson sounded as if she were itching to get her fingers in Hitler's hair. When Commentator Thompson was just getting warmed up, the first important application of U. S. radio's self-imposed censorship code occurred. St. Louis' KWK cut Miss Thompson off the air. Said KWK's president, Robert Convey, as though he might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson...
...Enid, Miss, (population 277) published its financial statement...
...miss they did. In October 1936, they started Coronet, a pocket-sized monthly which now sells about 150,000 copies a month. In April 1938, Messrs. Smart, Gingrich and Weintraub tried again with Ken, and Ken folded last month (TIME, July 10). Meanwhile, Esquire was having its own troubles. By last June its advertising guarantee had been cut to 450,000 and Esquire had trouble meeting that. Dave Smart and his brother Alfred had sold $1,400,000 of their stock and the stock had dropped from $16 to $4 a share...