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Your excessive use of footnotes seems to me to be in rather bad taste and tiresome. There were nineteen in your last issue. Is it not better style to include such matter in the articles to which they refer, even in parenthesis...
...third paragraph you speak of Bolivar liberating Central America. This allusion certainly would create a misconception in the mind of anyone not familiar with Spanish-American history. As the only part of Central America, properly socalled, liberated by Bolivar was the Republic of Panama you could hardly refer to him in that manner...
...call your attention to an entirely misleading advertisement that appears on your back cover page? [TIME, June 21] I refer to the one advertising the missing (?) books of the Bible. The advertisement is so written that its tendency is to lead people to believe that these books have just recently been discovered. Of course as you very well know scholars have been able to estimate the value of these books and have given them their proper place. Nor are they anything new as this advertisement erroneously suggests, they have been known for centuries...
...Please refer to page 26 of the May 24 issue of TIME. In this list of automobile terms the only brand name that you have included is that of our product "Du Pont Duco." In a way, I suppose we should be flattered, but on the other hand we are spending thousands of dollars in advertising the fact that "There is Only One Duco?DU PONT Duco" in order to protect the buying public against substitution. It does not seem, therefore, as though anyone responsible for the editorial content of a publication such as TIME, should permit this misuse...
...Robinson: "To what game does the Senator refer...