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Asked to explain the above, administration officials say that the foreign governments have not balanced their budgets. This cannot of course refer to Great Britain, which will have a small surplus this year, but it does refer to France, where there is an indicated deficit of about a half billion dollars...
...wagering in the letter I refer to above makes me laff, as if the accomplishments of the President of this country were widely known and thoroughly realized, the betting in his favor would probably exceed a million...
Sirs: I had occasion to read with interest your journal published today (TIME, Dec. 4), and on reading through, I came across a statement which is absolutely incorrect and which will be resented by every Irishman in Ireland. The statement to which I refer is- 'Irish starts with barley but particular Irishmen always drink Scotch. Scotch also starts with barley but the ingredients are better, notably its water." As Chairman of the Board of Directors of one of the large Irish Free State distilleries, and one of the Board of Directors of another Irish Free State distillery, who incidentally...
...Tracy telegraphed a correction as follows: "YOUR STORY ON MEXICO INCIDENT INACCURATE AND UNTRUE STOP MY REPUTATION HAS BEEN DAMAGED BY A FALSE CHARGE IN YOUR PUBLICATION STOP PUBLIC HAD BEEN GIVEN TRUE AND CORRECTED VERSION AND NOW YOUR LIBELOUS STORY OVERSHADOWS ALL PREVIOUS ONES STOP I REFER YOU TO LOS ANGELES TIMES OF DEC. 3 WHICH CLIMAXES ALL VERSIONS AND GIVES TRUE ONE OF WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED STOP WAS NEVER ORDERED ARRESTED STOP THERE WAS NO BALCONY AND I WAS IN A ROOM SEVEN STORIES FROM THE GROUND WITH AN IRON RAILING EXTENDING TO MY CHEST HEIGHT STOP YOUR...
Aside from the general method, the book reveals more specific handling, equally satisfying in its way. The introduction of characters, in particular, is accomplished with a fine subtlety. One is given brief scraps of conversation from an individual; other characters refer at odd moments to the same person. One has but a scrappy and incomplete knowledge of his nature. Then, nicely dovetailed, there appears some short description or conversation which unites all previously known and adds to it with economy, so that the reader emerges with a friendship and knowledge of the character in question which he hardly remembers having...