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...several fascinating books, chose for review a book about an erotic Russian musician whose chief claim to fame was he was homosexual. Yet on the same page was listed a book (but passed with scant attention) called Fifty Million Brothers by Reader's Digest's blue-pencil genius, Charles W. Ferguson. As a "Fergie" fan, I protest, not only at your slight to Fergie's book but your unfailing and sedulous attention to books with perversion themes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Startled at such a rapidly moving glacier, youthful Henry Bradford Washburn, veteran of many Alaskan expeditions and an authority on Alaskan glaciers, reached for a pencil and pad at his desk in the Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration. After making quick calculations, he announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Runaway Glacier | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Next Wednesday evening at 7:30 the Editorial Board of the CRIMSON starts its spring competition, for which only sophomores are eligible. Now that the mid-yeas are past, pen and pencil may be grasped, this time for pleasure, and not for duty's sake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUTURE LIPPMANNS MAY GET START WEDNESDAY | 2/13/1937 | See Source »

...woman scorned, Madam Secretary Perkins met newshawks with tight lips, think," flushed face, burst she, "that pencil-tapping General fingers. Motors "I have made a great mistake, perhaps the greatest mistake in their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Washington v. Detroit | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Journal's, anonymous correspondent blindfolded himself 18 months ago, put a pencil to a map. Where his pencil landed he went and hung out his shingle. Wrote Lawyer "Richard Roe" from "somewhere in the Adirondacks": "I have been here almost one and one-half years and have earned a comfortable living. . . . During the fall I spend much time hunting deer and bear. In the summertime fishing for rainbow and brown trout, swimming and playing ball ... are some of my many enjoyments. ... I was initiated to the delights of square dancing and old-fashioned games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Adirondack Triumph | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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