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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your review of Cleopatra (TIME, Aug. 27) you quote Antony's last words to Cleopatra, "I am dying, Egypt, dying!", and attribute the line to Shakespeare. As a onetime resident of Cleveland TIME ought to know what every Ohioan knows, that the line was authored by Cincinnati's late, great General William Lytle, who was fatally wounded while leading a charge at Chickamauga...
...inspired by the Curtis magazines in the U. S. "An organ for all that was interesting and amusing, light and soothing," it was designed to sell at a low price and develop into a popular advertising medium. No. 5, Gendai ("Present Generation") was a serious magazine of the review type. With No. 6, Fujin Club, Noma entered the women's field against heavy competition, lost money for four years. Shojo Club, for girls, was No. 7. "We must not preach greatness or ambition to girls as much as to boys." No. 8, King...
HITLER: WHENCE AND WHITHER??Wickham Steed?Review of Reviews ($1.50). Impersonal but succinctly critical resume of Hitler's life and program by an oldtime English editor who thinks that, despite its faults, the Treaty of Versailles represents the soundest territorial order that has existed in Europe in modern times...
...only objection to your review (TIME, Aug. 27) of my book, Pegasus Pulls a Hack, is a commercial...
...your article captioned "Soul's Helmsman," p. 22, issue of August 13, when you mention the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the late Joseph Pulitzer, founder, and his son Joseph, and review briefly its growth to its present prestige, how could you leave out the name of the man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Joseph Sr. and Joseph Jr. for 50 years in the building of this great newspaper...