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...feel that we are fellow Vermonters. 3) My occupation during more than 30 years has been editing (daily newspapers), publishing, and printing. With these premises and qualifyings, may I comment on the "Great Mystery" (TIME, March 18). You tell your subscribers that in the plant of the Cuneo Press, where Cosmopolitan Magazine is printed, "numerous compositors set portions of an article that were 'meaningless fragments' to them." I have read this "On Entering and Leaving the Presidency''; and if anyone has told a TIME writer that even Printer Cuneo could have cut this copy into "takes...
...Burlington, Vt. Wintering at Phoenix, Ariz. Vermonter Lane's query about the "meaningless fragments" can never be answered. Now that the "mystery" is dispelled, not even the Cuneo Press typesetters could honestly say how little or much sense or sensation they derived from setting the disjointed Coolidge paragraphs. Editor Long exaggerated, perhaps, when he suggested that the typesetters were entirely ignorant of what the fragments were all about. Vermonter Lane's questioning of Editor Long's editorial integrity is more grave. In the interests of accuracy, definiteness and fairplay, TIME has showed Vermonter Lane's letter...
...elevated to high office in a big insurance company. Last month Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. elected Alfred Emanuel Smith to its board of directors.* There he will sit with one-time Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Alanson Bigelow Houghton (Republican),† President of the Associated Press Frank Brett Noyes (Republican), Steelman Charles Michael Schwab (Republican), Lawyer John William Davis (Democrat...
...lost its political potency in Canada and in its place has been raised a cry against the "Americanization" of the Dominion. ''Americanization" runs from U. S. bathtubs to U. S. comic strips, each item of which is at one time or another anathematized in the Canadian press, pulpit and political forum...
Defendant Guinan pushed through the press to Special Deputy U. S. Attorney-General Norman J. Morrison who had prosecuted her, put out her hand, said: "I want to thank you. You were a perfect gentleman." Shaking the hand, Mr. Morrison mournfully retorted: "You were the toughest customer I ever had." He had been unable to pin on her any technical responsibility for alleged liquor-selling in her "club," where she is merely "employed as hostess...