Letters, Jan. 26, 1931

K. C. B. on Bryan

Sirs: Your ad in the program of the Notre Dame v. Army game at Soldier Field [TIME'S historic episodes series: William Jennings Bryan making the Cross of Gold Speech]. . . . Bryan didn't look as you picture him. You show him flabby as he was in his later years. In '96 there wasn't an ounce, from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, that didn't belong to a physically perfect man. He had no double chin—though, if my memory serves me right, he did have...

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