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Never intended for bobsleds, the Cresta Run is not "a downhill straightaway" [TIME, Jan. 7], but a winding, downhill and very steep course, three-quarters of a mile long, including eleven banked curves, viz: "First Bank," "Curzon," "Thoma," "Rise," "Battledore," "Shuttlecock," "Stream Corner," "Bulpett," "Scylla," "Charybdis," "The Finish." "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" are almost S-shaped...
Britons are given to labeling themselves with strange-sounding titles indicative of their respective towns, viz.: Oxford, Oxonian; Cambridge, Cantabrigian, which are the most famous. There are others throughout Great Britain, often piquant and quaint, like Liverpool, Liverpudlian; Blackpool, Blackpudlian, and perhaps best of all Giggleswick, Giggleswicket...
...impression that all men of the armed forces use an odd slang in which nothing is referred to by its right name. I can't speak for the Army, but so far as I have observed in the Marine Corps, a spade is a spade. Viz., potatoes are potatoes, bread is bread, catsup (when we have it) is catsup...
Tell Ben Turick, who hails from my home town, that those reasons for Dewey votes (TIME LETTERS, Oct. 9), are absurd enough but no more than the one a great many Roosevelt supporters give, viz.: "I will vote for Roosevelt in 1944 because of what Hoover did or didn't do in 1932." If Hoover's record of twelve years ago has any bearing on what either candidate proposes to do in 1945 I'd like to know what...
...draw but one conclusion, viz.: that TIME agrees 100% with said writers or that it received no letters from the other side of the fence...