Letters, Jan. 25, 1937

Outstanding Precedent

Sirs: For your selection of Mrs. Simpson for Woman of the Year, congratulations; history furnishes an outstanding precedent.

A good friend of mine in Mussolini's town writes that for the past few days he has been inspecting musty back numbers of TEMPUS-newsmagazine, a smart publication in Roma of about 19 or 20 centuries ago, and he was interested to note that for their issue for the year 30 B.C. or thereabouts they had the picture of Cleopatra as Woman of the Year.

From some of the issues immediately before and after the first of...

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