Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subscriber Ulf Hauan of Hammerfest, Norway, having read in our Feb. 28 issue that some residents of Punta Arenas, Chile, were probably TIME'S southernmost readers, wondered whether he was the northernmost reader. He is a leading contestant for this arctic title, Hammerfest being Europe's northernmost town...
...communication signed by 15 Greek professors, authors and others commended TIME'S May 23 cover story on General Van Fleet and the current situation in Greece. The letter read, in part: "Since the whole truth about the real meaning of the struggle the Greek nation is waging has never been properly understood . . . your article was an occasion of bringing home this truth and making it known to all those who wish to learn what is really taking place in Greece...
...noticed a magazine which appeared to him to have its logotype purposely defaced or to be an international edition of TIME in Arabic. At any rate, he wanted to know which was correct,* and added: "If this letter proves nothing else, it proves how closely every page is read by TIME readers...
From Bercenay, France, Jean Baudin, who says that he has read every issue of TIME cover to cover for the last three years, sent in the following confession: "I have never been a Communist, but must confess that I was certainly far redder years ago than I am now. TIME'S influence, I think, or rather its undistorted articles one reads every week and remembers easily, brought forth this change...
...beliefs, which London Daily Mirror Columnists Edwin and Mona Radford have catalogued in their Encyclopaedia of Superstitions. Anyone who touches wood to forestall bad luck, or avoids walking under ladders, or refuses to light three cigarettes on a match, is not permitted, however, to grin too widely. He should read on. Some authorities hold that "touching wood" signifies touching the Holy Cross for protection; others look still further back into the past and see it as an invocation of tree spirits. A ladder leaning against a wall forms a triangle, which is inviolable for the same reason that makes "three...