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Zampillaerrotationist Sirs: ... I have noticed the word "rapist" in TIME occasionally. A rapist would I should think be one who advocated, practiced or devoted himself to rape through conviction. One who has raped or is raping would I imagine be a raper. Probably they don't care what we call them-just a question of accurate English, so long as you choose to mention them at all. One who skates is a skater. A zampillaerrotationist is one who makes a profession or an art of skating-on rollers. I don't like your whim of setting telegrams...
...Hurvich 4G., Norman B. Keevil 3G., John R. Lacher 3G., Edward W. Moore, instructor in Sanitary Chemistry, Stanley J. G. Nowak, instructor in Surgery, James A. Noble 1G., James G. O'mara 3G., Howard A. Potter 4G., Kenneth B. Raper 2G., Wendell A. Ray 4G., True W. Robinson 7GG., William E. Schevill, assistant curator in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernest R. Sears 4G., Wesley W. Spink, assistant in Medicine, Robert E. Stauffer...
...public see what is being painted in the United States today. A newspaper doesn't endorse murder when it prints the news of a murder." May I complete his statement by adding that neither do newspapers pay prize money to the murderers? . . . GEORGIA S. RAPER Columbus, Ohio...
Last week newspaper editors had in their hands not one electrocution picture but six, showing progressive stages in the execution of Gerald Thompson, Peoria, Ill. raper and girl-killer in Joliet State Penitentiary, Illinois (TIME, Aug. 12). With one exception, every paper in New York found some reason not to run the pictures. To the Mirror they were "distasteful." The Journal thought they "lacked local interest." The American deemed them "too poor to reproduce." Lone exception was the Daily News, which slipped one into its Sunday rotogravure supplement...