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"Some of the writers who earned no college degree wish they had. Mr. Howells, most sweet-natured and modest of men, wrote me, not long before his death: 'I would fain have been schooled, for I think it would have saved me time, and I have always thought the average...
The proverbially good natured soldiers of the various warring Chinese Tuchuns (TIME, Sept. 6) fought lightheartedly up and down the land last week, intent as usual upon nothing but earning their pay and seizing as much loot as possible.
In Rome, Dr. Marco Porzio, great surgeon, was quoted as denouncing U. S. surgeons for "permitting" Rudolph Valentino to die (TIME, Aug. 30), after a mere "appendicitis" operation. The fact is, Rudolph Valentino died of septicaemia (blood poisoning) after the perforation of a gastric (stomach) ulcer. Polyclinic Hospital officials had...
Permit me to express to the Editorial Department my keen delight in every number of TIME, its admirable condensed style, pithy news and incisive comments, at times caustic but never ill-natured, and also my admiration for the patience and toleration it shows to the microcephalic morons who so frequently...
¶The President called to the White House for a brief conference, late in the week, good-natured Captain Adolphus Andrews, for three years skipper of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, and his successor, Captain Wilson Brown, who served until recently as aide to the Commander of the Pacific destroyer squadron...