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With extreme sadness I note TIME'S apparent change in policy in handling copy on patri otic Americans and their counterparts. Under the title "Sloppy Citizenship," TIME, Nov. 16, referred to Hamilton Fish, C. Wayland Brooks, Clare E. Hoffman and some others as "Fuzzy specimens of Homo politicanus." I loved that phrasing. In a story on Dillard Stokes (Jan. 11), TIME referred to Burton K. Wheeler's attack on this brilliant reporter as a "tribute." Subtly done, I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1943 | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...Congress which will serve during what may well be America's most critical years, U.S. voters sent some fuzzy specimens of Homo politicanus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Sloppy Citizenship | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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