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Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder having commanded attention for the subject with his writing in the Saturday Evening Post, Navy faultfinders less eminent but no less vehement are now able to make themselves heard. One such faultfinder is Dr. W. Armistead Gills, U. S. N. retired. Dr. Gills has written two books-The Price of a Sailor's Life and Three Years Under the Hammer-to set forth what he considers gross ineptitude in the Navy health service. Not until last week, however, did his objections attain the resonance of front page headlines...
...reverberating "Magruder incident" closed peacefully last week, or almost closed. Various congressmen rumbled around Washington about an investigation of the charges brought last fortnight by Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, who wrote in the Saturday Evening Post that the Navy is over-officered, bound with expensive red tape and burdened with idle ships and shipyards [TIME, Oct. 3]. But officialdom was quiet. Admiral Magruder was not haled up for discipline...
Last week the Saturday Evening Post enjoyed a wide sale among Navy men and anti-Administration politicians. On p. 6 appeared an article called "The Navy and Economy" by Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder...
Last week just such a happening took place in the Sequatchie Valley, Tenn. Pickett's Lake, near Whitwell, famed for its trout, was emptied overnight. Natives found scores of trout, from a pound to five pounds, skittering, burrowing, gasping in shallow puddles in the mud basin. Smaller fish seemed to have escaped by routes which, when geologists found them, showed that the sudden drainage was no miracle. Two crevices in the lake bottom had. opened, presumably by earth contraction during a local drought, emptying Pickett's Lake into the Sequatchie River, a mile away...
...potent McGuffey's were never without competition. There were the Goodrich, and Harvey's, and Pickett's. But not for 40 years, in 1877, were the McGuffey's seriously threatened. Then appeared the Appleton readers, prepared by the school superintendents of St. Louis and Cleveland with a Yale professor. It was a lavish series, handsomely illustrated. The McGuffey's survived this onslaught only by those sterling moral values which had made them a byword in the land, a staple commodity at every general store. That they have now vanished utterly from schoolrooms will be difficult to prove, especially since they...