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Sirs: Your account of the Pittsburgh flood [TIME, March 30] is excellent. I expected it would be. One little error has crept in. This is not surprising for the same error appeared in one of the Pittsburgh dailies. I refer to the statement that guests of the Roosevelt Hotel were marooned without food or water. In justice to the hotel management, I believe this should be corrected. As one of the 575 guests during the flood I know that, working under great difficulties, the hotel served meals regularly, plenty of good plain food. To cook it they were obliged...
...meant to call all Filipinos savages-"but there are savages everywhere." Finally he urged his com patriots to "avoid occasions for rebuke" and sent a copy of his reply to Judge Lazarus accompanied by a note saying, "I cannot believe that you had in any way in tended to refer to my people as a whole...
...refer of course to the new and improved method of selecting the Ivy Orator. It is my understanding that the Ivy Orator is the man chosen for his nimble wit who injects the spirit of jolly good fun into the otherwise rather funereal Commencement proceedings. In the past this office was filled by popular vote, but last year it was decided to except it from the general rule of Class Day offices, presumably to ensure better orations...
Although I am, like I guess millions of others, a devoted reader of TIME-budgeting my leisure to read it first on Friday each week-I object definitely to your language in TIME, March 16. On p. 34 you refer to the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War as "a coalition of female societies." Your editors should certainly know that it is no such thing. It is a committee made up of eleven national women's organizations . . . functioning energetically throughout these...
Replied Steel, wholly unembarrassed: "No, Communism has not been achieved in the Soviet Union so far. It is not easy. But your term 'State Socialism' is not exact. Many people refer to a condition as State Socialism when a considerable amount of national wealth passes to government ownership, sometimes for military advantage, even though the majority of wealth remains in private hands...