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...text and a few tabulations were the commercial results of 1936. The company made $6,510,000, as against $3,500,000 in 1935, which was its worst year since 1924. For the rest of his 68-page report Mr. Babst confined himself largely to a heavily-documented squawk about the Government's sugar policy...
...past papers helps to improve the technique of writing under fire. Furthermore, when all papers are returned, the onus of careful correcting rests more heavily on the assistants. For, when no examinations are given back, only the very bad or very serious-minded undergraduate ever lets loose a squawk about his grade...
...second "squawk" concerns "Dodo" itself. Here certainly is an elegant name. Twenty-five years ago at the Naval Academy I was the member of a menagerie which an upperclassman collected from among the lowly plebes for the purpose of mild hazing. My place of honor was, as the "Dodo" bird, no uncertain one. I recall that I condescended to associate, at intervals, with the "Wahoo Wahoo" bird and several other fowl of lesser degree. This lasted about one month - since that time I have not been honored with this title except by one classmate - now dead - and yourself. In fact...
...Essential Experience Sirs: As an uncooked college undergraduate who for many years thought babies were found by their mammas under geraniums, and as a mere male whose interest in child-birth will be forever academic, I ought to keep my mouth shut about Dr. Nielsen's unhappy squawk anent the use of analgesics, but I can't. Upon reading her statement (TIME, May 25) that the pains of child-birth have been grossly exaggerated in the minds of American women and that a woman's personality may be damaged if the normal course of child-bearing...
...have to wait another five years for the next picture, for Chaplin vehicles are not street cars. Chaplin is an anachronism; having learned the art of pantomime for the silents, he isn't going to give it up because some fool invented a way to make the flickers squawk. And being old-fashioned, he restores slapstick to its lusty youth. It dazzles by the force of its mad pollmell succession. The tempo is definitely stepped up way above normal; the old trick for preventing lag is remembered...