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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YOUR OCT. 23 ISSUE TIME CALLS ROGER BABSON VENERABLE. THIS WILL MAKE OUR GREAT AND GOOD PATRON ANGRY FOR WEBSTER'S SAYS THE USE OF THE WORD VENERABLE GENERALLY IMPLIES ADVANCED AGE. MR. BABSON IS ONLY 64 AND IF YOU COULD SEE HIM RIDE WITH US WEBBER GIRLS YOU WOULD NOT CALL HIM VENERABLE. IF YOUR EDITORS USED VENERABLE IN THE SENSE OF BEING RENDERED SACRED BY RELIGIOUS HISTORIC OR OTHER ASSOCIATIONS WE WILL GLADLY WITHDRAW OUR OBJECTION FOR MR. BABSON's LIFELONG INTERESTS AND GOLDEN RULE PHILOSOPHY CERTAINLY ENTITLE HIM TO QUALIFY UNDER THIS LATTER ETYMOLOGY...
...have been interested in the book, How To Sing For Money, since it was in the manuscript stage. I thought your review (TIME, Oct. 9) a very keen analysis, but I wonder if it gave a slightly wrong impression of the function of the voice teacher today...
...think, contrary to TIME, Oct. 9, p. 28, that von Ribbentrop and his entourage recognized the Russian Air Force song, Higher and Higher quite well when it was played by the band of his Moscow honor guard. A song entitled Lied der Roten Flieger (Song of the Red Fliers) was launched by the Communists in Germany in the early 30's, with the chorus (last four lines...
...Pope's nose to Reader Wiswell" (TIME, Oct...
...TIME, Oct. 16, p. 32: "The oil industry . . with the pumps slowly chugging in the exhausted fields of Pennsylvania...