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...wish I had space to sketch the backgrounds of some of the other editors and writers who have joined us in the year just past-to merge their fresh-to-TIME but long experience talents with those of our 46 other editors. But perhaps these examples will serve to show you the kind of newsmen we are adding to TIME'S staff in these days when the news is so hard to get and check and make clear...
...observer sketches with a black pencil on a map printed in red. The transmitter, which is insensitive to red, sends only the black marks; consequently, if an enemy receiver intercepts the message, it shows only meaningless scrawls. But at headquarters the message is decoded by placing the transmitted sketch over a map duplicating the observer...
...Dark Eyes", which opened last night at the Plymouth, is a mixture of occasional humor and bad taste. Funny in parts, the show falls through the bottom when it attempts to sketch human beings. It is excellent only with wooden butlers...
Sirs: The artist's sketch of the Senate in the background of the Senator George cover (TIME, July 19) must have reminded others as it did me . . . [that] when we were kids in school we had to listen to what the teacher was saying. We couldn't read or sleep. Maybe we had to listen because our minds were growing and capable of learning...
...Stanley Page wound up the entertainment with a fast-moving rediction of a "Schnitzelbank," in which he was jointed by many of the men. He worked in the ferocious Cambridge mosquitoes, the Normal Curve and the Standard Error (statistical concepts which have haunted the psychology students), and a sketch relating to Major Merriam's "eagle eye" at inspections...