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Sirs: Just got through dousing Saphead Dowse [TIME, June 13], when up pops saphead John Muller (TIME, June 20) who forgets that our popular American, Colonel Lindbergh, made the New York-to-Paris flight with only three sandwiches and a bottle of milk.* What German could accomplish this wonderful feat with less than a keg of beer, a barrel of sauerkraut and a whole roast pig ? We Americans do first and talk afterwards, that is why we were so successful in the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet Club, simultaneously arranging her cinema career and marriage with Saphead Spoffard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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