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...MOUNTAIN AND THE PLAIN-Herbert Gorman-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Long (653-pp.), slow-moving, historical novel of the French Revolution, revolving around a 21-year-old hero who saw everyone from Tom Paine to Lafayette, and everything from the fall of the Bastille to the Execution of Louis...
Sirs: The following will correct the impression given by your article pp. 54 and 56, TIME, July 6, that Grocer Saunders of Memphis was the first in the "Self Serve" type of grocery. The fact is that Lutey Bros., Grocers, Butte, Mont., originated and operated under this plan from February 1912. This was four years before the advent of the Saunders Stores. Mr. Saunders adopted this idea very successfully, after learning about its results with Lutey Bros., Butte. This innovation in grocery retailing by Lutey Bros, was commented upon by trade journals- The American Grocer, New York, devoted several pages...
Many warmest thanks for the copy of July 6 TIME containing the review of my article in Science, June 26, pp. 621, 622. The speed is quite astonishing and the reviewer has done a masterly job. He knows the subject well and has precisely caught my exact meaning...
BELIEVE YOU OWE DOCTOR SPAETH AMENDS AND APOLOGIES AND SOME CLEVER CAPTION-WRITER A GOOD HARD SIT DOWN IN HIS CHAIR FOR WHAT IS ON PP. 36 AND 37, TIME. APRIL...
When Charles Morgan wrote The Fountain (1932) it was variously hailed as a big book, a pretentious imposture, a masterpiece, a phony. Sparkenbroke will raise the same contradictory contentions. Like its predecessor it is a long (551 pp.), serious novel on a solemn theme. Whether it was heavily ridiculous or gravely sublime was a question for the reader's taste, sympathy, sense of humor. Discerning readers last week gave Sparkenbroke high marks for good intentions and pomposity, refused to consider it as a masterpiece, but conceded that its weighty persistence was more impressive than the average novel...