Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sir: Re your article on the 1948-49 automobiles [TIME, Oct. 4]: Obviously, the designers from every company got together one night, had too many drinks and [decided] to make all cars alike-too wide, too stub-nosed and boxy-looking-and thus enjoy a designer's holiday . . . CALDER B. VAUGHAN Washington...
...Sir: ". . . Custom-built guided missiles"?! Well, cut my trousers off and call me Buck Rogers! JACK J. JONES Washington...
...Sir: For the information of [Designer] Raymond Loewy, I would like him to know that heads and right hands are not easy to come by. The latter I reluctantly left in one of his well-designed automobile interiors, caught between the arm rest and window handle, one balmy summer day. The head, which I fortunately salvaged, I still carry around in my pocket. It was removed at the request of the driver, who could not see out of the rear window through the rear-view mirror. I am writing this left-handed from the hip. W. S. SHERMAN Chicago...
...Sir: . . . For heaven's sake, where oh where did you get that fantastic line about Sir Archibald McIndoe: "Some of his patients call [him] 'God'-and partly mean it" [TIME, Sept. 27]? I have known Sir Archibald since I crashed in flames in 1941, and have been under his chopper 32 times ... I have never heard him spoken of as God ... If your correspondent (may he be hoist by his own typewriter) had said that Sir Archie was known to the boys as "The Boss," "Maestro," "Mac," or merely "The Big White Chief," then he would have...
...Sir: . . . Five months ago, Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge couldn't have been elected to the office of dogcatcher in Georgia. Then . . . Mr. Truman started yapping about Civil Rights. Every time he opened his mouth for one of those monotonous speeches, it meant thousands of votes for "Hummon." Don't forget that the South is basically defensive in its thinking. It knows it has no friends outside the South, so it thinks it can counter its enemies by electing people like Long and Talmadge . . . SEATON OWENS Marietta...