Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Despite being a long TIME subscriber, a LIFE charter member, a reader of my brother's FORTUNE,an enthusiastic listener to "March of Time," I've never before told TIME how good I think it is because I'm no writer of letters-to-the-editor...
...Edward-Simpson resume in the Dec. 21 issue. For writing, for journalism, for wit, for rationality, it is, I think, unsurpassed in its field. I had become so fed up with the hysterical, pathetic, impassioned and - warped newspaper accounts of this now famous imbroglio that I've not bought a paper for several weeks...
Against Princeton, Harvard had better luck, winning 17 of their 27 meetings. The Princeton teams were the worst this year that they've been for several annums. Their percentage of contests won was .546, as compared with .631 last year, .656 in 1935, and .636 in 1933. Yale also had the best of Princeton winning 29 of their 51 meetings...
...wife followed him to the grave. Inheritance taxes of $500,000 forced Son Oliver to stop living at Lulling-stone Castle, family seat of the Hart Dykes for almost 300 years. Enterprising Lady Hart Dyke promptly started a silkworm factory in Lullingstone Castle. "I've been very keen on silkworms since I was seven years old," she explained last week, "and later I began to study them experimentally. If I get sufficient support from manufacturers, we hope to have a flourishing industry...
...inning 1-to-1 tie, now peddles drug supplies. Claiming not to have received a cent from her father's $2,000,000 estate since it became involved in litigation in 1931, she complained: "I'm down to my last rags. We have nothing. I've applied for home relief but they laughed at me when I told them I was one of the Ebbets. . . . I even tried to get a job at Ebbets Field but they won't let an Ebbets in there." Moping about her cold parlor in Montclair, N. J., Miss...