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What do you mean by inflicting upon a general audience four columns of sectarian slush (pp. 20-21, Nov. 16) ? If sect barons fight among themselves about matters connected with politics or ethics or immaculate conceptions, such rot may perhaps be called legitimate news when stated in your own finely compressed style. But descriptive matter about "elevating the bun," bell ringing, genuflections, etc., in a journal like yours is STEALING THE SPACE YOUR SUBSCRIBERS ARE ENTITLED...
Some keen-eared persons thought the General had said to his colleague: "This is damned rot and ought to be stopped...
...Southampton. The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea is no friend to tennis players. It sends its fogs to swell catgut strings so that a dry day will snap them; it strangles the buoyant spirits of balls; its rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year...
After Business Hours. It is hard to stand the strain of a weak heroine stumbling through reels of irrational rot, and seemingly, the actors find...
...Downing Street, official home of Britain's Prime Ministers for nearly 200 years, is falling down. In fact, the discovery was recently made and last week advertised that the house and No. 11, official home of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was crumbling from dry rot. The Office of Public Works stated that one of the walls had subsided, that there was no imminent danger of collapse. Crowds flocked to see the historic building. It was mooted that it would have to be rebuilt...