Letters, May 28, 1934

Shore Leave

Sirs:

I had just read with inward amusement of the wrath and indignation of our esteemed former Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N., in connection with artist Paul Cadmus' painting The Fleet's In, as described in the Art department of TIME, April 30.

Shortly afterward my eye fell on the two enclosed clippings from an old copy of the Panama American, "An Independent Daily Morning Newspaper." These two examples of "frank and progressive" journalism caused no little additional amusement, coming as two bits of printed evidence on top of the mass of occurrences I...

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