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Accuracy is a jewel. In TIME, May 23, p. 11, col. 2, paragraph second, line 2, you say: "Almost six feet tall" of "Carrie" Nation, Mrs. Nation-her name is "Carry," not "Carrie," as you say. I have her The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation, written by herself...
...wish to call your attention to a paragraph in TIME, May 16, in which it is stated that "Cody" Allen is a granddaughter of the late Col. Cody. This is an error as Miss Helen Allen is a daughter of a niece of Col. Cody's making her a grandniece. Buffalo Bill's granddaughter is Jane Cody Garlow, the daughter of Irma Cody Garlow...
TIME prides itself on its accuracy. TIME therefore will, no doubt, be glad to refer back to p. 14, of TIME, May 9, where there was a paragraph called "Vanishing Coat" telling how David Lloyd George had had his coat stolen whilst dining at the Savoy...
...interests of accuracy-and the Savoy-it should be stated that on this unfortunate occasion he was dining, not at the Savoy but at the hotel next door, or so every London newspaper reported. This may seem a very trivial rebuke, and so it would be, had not your paragraph unwittingly slandered the one man in London who has looked after the hats and coats of more well-known people than anyone else in the world; and furthermore, in a period of 43 years has never had an accident happen to any of them, to say nothing of having them...
...coat for the last 20 years, he never forgets a face; and the now famous coat which was so nearly stolen has been under his care on more than one occasion. (It was not, as it happens, a particularly new coat.) Hence his feelings at your paragraph. But Joseph is as shy as his memory is razor-keen, and on his behalf I venture, therefore, to exonerate him from an occurrence with which I am quite sure thousands of Americans reading TIME, and knowing Joseph, would have associated...