Letters, Feb. 5, 1940

Industrious Cook

Sirs:

Of all the adjectives available to TIME industrious is the most inept in describing Alton Cook, radio editor of the New York World-Telegram. I know because he shared my apartment for many years and he is the laziest man who ever left a bed unmade and dishes in the sink from Friday to Friday, the day of the slavey's weekly visitation.

I survived the advent of his charming wife, but Alton, junior, finally eased me out. The only way they are getting the Alton Cooks out of the building (opposite Morgan's on...

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