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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before arguing about a "section on fashions" [TIME, Sept. 12] define what is meant by " a section"? Do not give us a weekly page on fashions. If you do, I stop my subscription. But fashions are part of history. And TIME reports history in the making, does it not ? During the last 20 years women's fashions have undone all the evil they did during 500 years. If men during the next 20 years make as much progress, men will have a reason for being proud of their sex. It is men nowadays who brush the dust off their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...more than 200 have protested against it. - ED. šTIME on Aug. 29 promised: "If 100 subscribers write to TIME requesting a section on FASHION, they have it." ED. * Last week TIME stated that no more letters from Mr. Epstein would be printed. For the purpose of answering Mr. Blake's challenge (and for that purpose alone), the embargo is lifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Reds. French Communists were content during the Paris excitement to demonstrate passively at Clichy, Soviet-infested suburb of Paris. But one midnight, as a trainload of legionaries rumbled along between Cannes and Nice, a considerable section of railroad track suddenly leaped and twisted upwards in the dark, wrenched out of place and heaped with rocky debris by a powerful explosive. The legionaries had escaped disaster by five minutes, owing to their

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: In Paris | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...worried. Football isn't the game it used to be when I last hung up my mud-stained moleskins in the Shemokin gym. What with bilateral passes and other sleight-of-hand tricks allowed, and with the goal-posts moved back so the near-sigthed old grad in Section 43 can see them, the game is changed so a forecaster hardly dares to speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RICH BRIBE LURES JOE FORECAST AGAIN INTO GLARE OF LIMELIGHT | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...very well that Easterners should boost the East and the native sons of California shout their claim to fame in every ear, but when the Mid-West gets together and plans to yell for their section, the East seems to become offended. Eastern papers are said to be a sophisticated lot, but when one of them comes forth with a story filled with bunk and hokum about the so-called "comparatively unimportant college grid contest," then the boosters of the Mid-West cry "On to Harvard" with the largest possible exclamation point added for both Purdue and Indiana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

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