Letters, Jul. 22, 1935

Newport Waistlines

Sirs:

After seeing your number 4 issue of March of Time, visualizing the naval maneuvers, I am wondering how smart the naval strategists at Newport are, or how dumb.

Why go through the back-breaking gymnastics of shoving miniature ships around a linoleum floor? If it is to reduce the girth of the Generals —swell. But from a standpoint of gastronomical efficiency, which in some way effects brain maneuvers, it occurred to a layman that they might put their destroyers up on a table and walk around it, shoving their battleships, cruisers and...

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