Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: I was gratified and delighted to see on your cover the picture of the most revered author of my youth, Vladimir Nabokov...
...Sir: It was a pleasure to read your long and richly appreciative article on Nabokov. I feel honored that you should credit me with some incidental part in the American recognition of his work. But full credit for the earliest sponsorship of his English writing should go to his first publisher in this country, James Laughlin IV, of New Directions. While enjoying the vogue that culminates in your story, let us not forget the special insight and the generous risks that this small firm has exercised on behalf of unrecognized talent...
...Sir; Playboy has had the privilege, over the years, of publishing three works by Vladimir Nabokov, in whole or in part, before they became books. The most recent was Ada and, as TIME noted in quoting the author, he was less than pleased with the accompanying illustrations. You implied, I believe, that he went so far as to compose a critical cable, which he did not send. In fact, we did get a cable from him reading as follows: "Ada fragments beautifully printed but goodness what illustrations! That improbable young mammal and two revolting frogs...
...Sir: It seems strange that the church should make the feasts of the patrons of Uganda and Japan mandatory while making optional the feast of the Irish patron, St. Patrick...
...doubling everything involved in turning out a 100,000-tonner. Germany's Howaldtswerke was seven months late in delivering the 191,000-ton Esso Malaysia because it sagged so badly on the trial run that it had to be reinforced with an extra 500 tons of steel. Sir John Hunter, chairman of Britain's Swan Hunter, concedes that "some of our costing estimates are still largely hopes...