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...writes to TIME? As the editors face up to mail by the armful, it often seems that the whole cross-section of their readership has an opinion to deliver. M.D.s scratch notes on prescription pads; travelers scrawl on postcards; housewives pause in their day's rounds to comment on such subjects as religion, politics, nuclear weapons...
...three "kiddos" and a picnic lunch in a car, she personally visited Texas weekly editors, persuaded 44 of them to buy "The Worrier's Guide" for $1 or $2 a column. As "Jan Webster," she plows through some 120 letters a week, often squinting at an eight-page scrawl of a distressed farmwife, edits the most interesting to a printable size. A "Dear Jan" sampler...
...began to read the painful scrawl: "Please do not get excite over this order I'm giving you. In this suitcase you see in my hand is fill to the top with high explosive. I mean high high . . . I do not believe I can kill and not kill what is around me, and I mean my son will go too . . . Please do not make me push this button that all I have...
...mentally fat professors," the quality of the writing in the first issue of Gadfly is surpassed only by a mediocre Gen. Ed. essay. Also included in this issue is a short piece in French, which, after reading, I leave for the more esoteric to interpret, and an enigmatic scrawl on art and Ezra Pound written for a very special "in-group" to discuss over their Turkish tea at the Cafe Mozart...
...young man used to ride the New York subways with a pencil in his pocket and a chip on his shoulder. Sometimes, when he saw the placards for a cosmetic lotion urging straphangers to preserve the soft white beauty of their hands, he would take out his pencil and scrawl derisive comments: "How about Negro hands?" or "What if you're Chinese?" Car cards urging brotherhood and tolerance got the inscription: "There is bigotry in America." The girl who often rode with him would remonstrate, but the young man scarcely heard her. Even then, she recalls, "there...