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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read your review of The Lost Art of Profanity [TIME, Sept. 27] with a sensation of pain and disappointment. Was it not enough that the devil should get in his lick with the author? Must the satanic literary abnormalities of Burges Johnson and Henry Mencken be flaunted by TIME? . . . PAULINE B. WHITE Lancaster...
...Your review . . . reminds me of some acute remarks which were made on this engaging subject about 30 years ago. The following appeared, I believe, in 1918: . . . The human weakness for profanity is like the human weakness for tobacco-it does not cure anything, but it undoubtedly soothes and caresses. Carried to excess, it grieves the judicious; practiced in moderation, it allays the passions, promotes digestion, placates animosities, and makes for happiness at the domestic hearth . . . No sane man would seek relief in cussing if a safe fell upon him, or a lion bit off his leg, or an anarchist...
...Your reviewer of my book From the Heart of Europe [TIME, Sept. 20] found "disingenuous" my simple factual statement that one of the reasons why I am not a Marxist is "that I am a Christian, not through upbringing but by conviction, and find any materialism inadequate." He would have been less disingenuous himself in his other sweeping strictures if he had also stated that on two occasions in that book I indicated that I sometimes find TIME anything but adequate in its treatment of fact, that I cited explicitly, as one of the enemies of international understanding, "the phony...
...Answer. In its monthly Business Review, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank also said the steelmen were wrong. Steelmen contended that the uniform basing price was a necessary and "natural" protection for an industry with high capital outlay and high freight charges. In effect, said the bank, they were describing their industry as a "natural monopoly." "If [that] were granted," it warned, "a good case could be made out for regulation of the industry as a public utility...
Died. Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, 86, tweedy four-term Democratic governor of Connecticut (1931-39), longtime dean of the Yale Graduate School (1916-30), scholarly editor (1911-40) of the Yale Review, an authority on the 18th Century English novel (The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne, A History of Henry Fielding); in New Haven, Conn...