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Vanity Fair (for the so enlightening article on Staff Photographer Steichen written by Associate Editor Brokaw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.D.*
TIME (for the fallal fancy over Marching On, and the generosity of the Editorship with the roses) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.D.*
The New Yorker (for the senseless and humorless scribblings by self-adjudged Artist Thurber) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.D.*
Otherthanthat, you've a damn nice magazine. .
* Doctor of Ballyhoo.
H. M. SULLIVAN Peru, Ind.
"Muggsy"
Sirs: TIME, clear, curt, hardly complete, failed to mention possibly the most dramatic struggle in the life of John J. McGraw (TIME, June 13)— his battle against a nickname. Young and irascible Third Baseman McGraw was known as "Muggsy" in Baltimore, gloried in the name. As he grew older, fatter, the name seemed undignified. No longer a head-puncher, save in sundry clubs where he was reputed to have lost more fights than an English heavyweight, John McGraw objected to rowdy publicity, fought strenuously for years and finally had the offensive appellation discarded first by the New York and then by the national press. All praise to persistent "Muggsy" McGraw, so successful in his fight against publicity that careful TIME did not even recall.
JAMES H. McGEE New York City