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Readers are often moved by a kindly instinct to share TIME and the news it contains with other people. The mail recently brought two examples. The first letter came from Dr. J. Maurice Swain of Cleveland. He enclosed a check with the request that it pay for a subscription to "someone who you believe would most benefit...
...Swain explained that he had sent a similar subscription last year to a priest in the French West Indies. This year he would like someone in Europe to receive one. Wrote he : "I firmly believe that this is one of the best ways to encourage friendship for the free world. It becomes more personal when individuals make the contact, even in this faraway manner. I know that in my own case a subscription to a magazine printed in Paris has broadened my own outlook...
...1830s, when the search for whales had long since taken the ships into the Pacific. There, Stackpole believes, a Nantucket master named Captain Christopher Burdick deserves credit for being the first to sight the Antarctic continent. Others discovered new islands, gave them Nantucket family names, e.g., Gardner, Starbuck and Swain Islands...