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Sirs: Please refer to TIME, May 2, p. 26, to a paragraph reading as follows: 'Often surprising are the brain's reactions to violent injury. A prize exhibit of Harvard's bright & cheery Warren Anatomical Museum, into which the public cannot get, is the Crowbar Skull. The foreman of a crew of Vermont road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25 lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence...
...situation is really more serious than the paragraph above would indicate. Dangerous accidents are happily rare, but they do happen, and can be partly attributed to the confusion caused by a medley of traffic lanes. Around the subway kiosk the constant presence of parked cabs, and the buses and street cars which stop there, make it an especially dangerous point. The autoist himself is in an unenviable position. Having voluntarily relinquished the use of an auto because of its inevitable annoyances at Harvard, I can speak for both motorist and pedestrian on this point...
After believing implicitly in every word printed in TIME, I am surprised to find three mistakes in a paragraph of five lines which appeared in your March 7 issue. This reads...
...many years I have been a subscriber to and cover-to-cover reader of TIME, and at last find an opportunity to write you. In your issue of Feb. 29, p. 36, third paragraph of last column, you mention that Rome, Perugia, Florence, Budapest and Berlin were renaming streets for George Washington...
...When newspaper stories were handwritten, "x" meant the end of a sentence, "xx" the end of a paragraph, "xxx" (Roman for "30") the end of the story...