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...Miscellany column [TIME, April 7] was not completely correct. I know as I met Captain Knowles very recently on a trip to Havana. He had owned Oscar ten years ago when the seal was only a few months old. One day a neighbor allowed Oscar to escape from his pen in the Captain's garden and until a few months ago no more was seen...
...newsstands went 80,000 copies (10? a copy); to subscribers went 37,000 annual subscriptions ($1 a year), about half of them donated by good-neighborly U.S. readers. Included were 32 pages of ads-first in Reader's Digest-by such firms as Gillette Razor, General Motors, Parker Pen, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, big oil companies...
...Count von Luckner, the old sea raider, had dinner at my home and during the course of the evening I showed him the story that you wrote about him in your Jan. 13 issue. The old Count was a little amused and puzzled too. Finally, he took his pen and wrote the following over the page...
...interesting, if not novel theme which the author has selected, but one which has been dealt with only lightly by her pen. After twenty years abroad, a wandering farmer's daughter returns to the old homestead, seeking relaxation and rebirth which she feels that getting back to the earth again can give her. She finds the old and sturdy stock has deteriorated. The oak has turned into an Oakie, and the cheap dance-hall, the installment-burdened car and mortgaged farm comprise the life of a people squeezed of ambition by years of poor crops and unprofitable prices. Fortified...
...Four Americans, including Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant, signed the exchanges. Biggest problem: finding four fountain pens to present to the Americans. Most fountain-pen factories have been converted to defense production. After much telephoning and shop-combing, four pens were purchased, engraved with the signatories' names...