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...port with it because it will blow up on striking bottom ( being fitted with cross triggers in the head) so one has to be very sure that they have a submarine to deal with before putting the paravane out. TIME keeps me in touch with the world and I revel in it from cover to cover. K. B. THOMPSON, V.P. The Reese Advertising Agency Inc. New Orleans, La. Unpopular Prof. Sirs: I read your magazine every week for the simple reason that it is an assignment by my government Prof., a young Ph. D. of about your calibre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...boys call him, loves his friends, trusts them, lets them run the government. The result is the incubation of corruption in oil and in the so-called Department of Public Health which is so crooked that it even gets graft out of roach powder. Murders, lewd women, drunken revels, coarse dialogue are thrown in to spice the story. The scandals begin to leak out in Washington. Senatorial investigations threaten, but the "Chief" stands by his friends. There is, of course, a woman in the story. A sort of Platonic affection grows up between her and the President. She tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Novel | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Suppose adolescents were expected by the world to regard the mechanism and the mysteries of sex exactly as they regard the mechanism and the mysteries of a radio set? Suppose little Johnny, who is allowed to revel in Popular Mechanics and the Radio Digest, should have thrust into his hands a magazine which explained his sex impulses with the commonplaceness of a mechanic expounding the ignition of a Ford? Would the result be completely good? Can the little boy who is a "radio bug"± be assumed to grow up quite naturally into an adolescent "sex bug," equally without necessity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unsexing Sex | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...Revel.... .....Each successive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rare Poem of 1718 by Unknown Author Describes Revels of Old-Time Seniors at Commencement | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Paris, in the Quartier Latin, one Juliana Hastre, young Argentine singer, was gowning for dinner when a messenger delivered to her an egg of prehistoric proportions, an Easter token from her friend Mlle. Van Hong Lu in India. Taking the present with her to the evening's revel at another friend's house, Mile. Hastre exhibited its glossy chocolate surface and sugary frosting, caused mouths to water at the thought of sweet liqueurs or sugary stuffing within, caused shrieks of horror when, cracking the shell, she released half a dozen scabrous tropical cockroaches and a vicious, adult scorpion, which immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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