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...note two letters in this week's [July 15] issue of TIME from tender-skinned clerical brothers, chiding you for the very thing which makes TIME so good-its fine, fearless frankness. A fortnight ago the magazine was overdue and I had to buy a copy from the newsstand, in order to maintain my Friday equilibrium. Of course I often take issue with what you print, and sometimes you make me mad. I am glad you do upset me: such agitation is necessary for a sane, decanal existence. So keep on being natural and racey-and even spicey...
...Saturday Evening Post has more subscribers today than ever before in its history. Every week, for more than a year, subscriptions have increased. Newsstand sales are going up, too. . . . Why? The answers fill our mailbags every day. 'We honor a magazine . . . that has the courage of its convictions...
...York City the newsstands, of which there are some forty thousand, were set aside as positions for the disabled. The blind and crippled were supposed to have preference. LaGuardia discovered that these posts were bought and sold, not distributed to those who had a legal right to them, but allotted to the highest bidder. The machinery behind this petty manipulation masks itself under the pious title of The New York Newsdealers' Protective and Benevolent Association, directed by a common gangster named Jake Sbar. The price tag on a newsstand ranges from one thousand to eighteen thousand, and once the cash...
...greater than that. For it is he who has discovered the necessity and utility of writing letters to the papers. Of course, someday some corrupt biographer in the employ of the Bank of France may point out that he waited until he had a poem (so-called) on every newsstand round about (note: The Advocate came out day before yesterday) before bursting into print in any given locality. But any future charge that he is a publicity-hound will be false. IT CERTAINLY WILL. Ezra Pound will LIVE. Generations after people have given up trying to understand his poetry...
Last week Father Coughlin was pursuing a course strikingly parallel to that of the inflationists in Congress. When Congressmen walked out from their caucus on remonetizing silver, they could have stopped at any newsstand and bought a copy of Mr. Moley's magazine Today, could have read in it an article by Father Coughlin earnestly advocating symmetallism (a cousin of bimetallism, but with differences perhaps more notable than its likeness to its relative). And the same day that Senator Thomas was revealing to the Press a draft of a bill for substituting gold certificates for the gold reserve...