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Boston. Mass. The artist sketching Collector Maynard gets $30.60 a week, as do all other CWA artists under the New England scale.-ED. "Shine, Little Glow Worm, Glimmer" Sirs: The review of my book They All Sung in TIME. Feb. 29 was very flattering, but I find that two or three misstatements have crept into your most excellent account. Knowing TIME'S reputation for accuracy, I am taking the liberty of pointing these...
...educational trend, it is only another queasy kow-tow to the Oxford-Cambridge reliquary of worm-holed 16th century poppycock. Some judgment should be employed even in boot-licking. It is to be hoped that President Conant will curb the P. T. Barnum tendencies of the Department before any New York vaudeville engagements are made...
Baltic Tapeworms. People who eat raw or inadequately cooked pickerel, wall-eyed pike or perch caught in lakes of the north central states risk infection by "broad" Baltic tapeworms, stated Dr. Thomas Byrd Magath of Rochester, Minn. Cooking or freezing kill the worm larvae which the fish harbor. Immigrants from Baltic countries first brought the worm to the U. S. Now in increasing numbers the U. S. is producing its own human verminaries...
...those of us who write the news, it seems eminently desirable that there should be a special word to designate the perennial botherations of a stripe that can be really expressed only as an ilk, who, when their published statements get them into trouble, try to worm out by declaring loudly that they have been misquoted...
...added complication that the odious Prince William of Gleck is the proposed husband for Princess Anne in a forthcoming diplomatic romance. Just about this time the king gets the constitution out of the dust-covered files and reads it, every word. He then proceeds to prove that the worm can turn (in his own humble way, of course), and that the meek inherit the earth...