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Sirs: If all of TIME were as bad as some of it is, it would be rotten. But if all of TIME were as good as some of it is, it-well, it couldn't be. Palo Alto, Calif. E. C. OAKLEY...
...UNDERSTANDING HEART? Peter B. Kyne?Cosmopolitan ($2)* In that magazine-story paradise, the California redwood forests, where the sheriffs have hearts of gold, the women shoot like the late Annie Oakley and the manly forest rangers croon Kipling, Author Kyne sets another of his soul-satisfying yarns...
...Ohio, I received a heavy brown pasteboard box, which I carried to the stage of the Globe Theatre, Manhattan, and opened in the presence of a notary public. It con tained several scrapbooks, with clippings, photographs, letters and a typed autobiography up to 1890 of my late friend, Annie Oakley Butler, ablest markswoman in history, who died last month (TIME, Nov. 15). There was no letter of explanation but it seemed apparent that Annie Oakley, with whom I played in a circus some 20 years ago, wished me to be her Boswell...
...ticket-shooting trick that gave free passes to baseball games and other exhibitions their slang name of "Annie Oakleys." President Ban Johnson of the American Baseball League once caught a man who had rented out his season pass. The pass was found to be full of holes, whereupon President Johnson made a remark, the aptness of which his subordinates never forgot: "Looks like Annie Oakley'd been shootin...
...Another version of the nickname's origin : 37 men presented themselves at Madison Square Garden one night that Annie Oakley was performing, demanded free admission because they were all her brothers...