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An editorial note in your issue of May 16 states that 'Tn the U. S. the Literary Digest has imitated TIME'S method of captionmg pictures by quotations from the printed text. Likewise the New York Times magazine section has adopted to a degree the same style of cut caption."
May I have the privilege of your columns to correct any misapprehension the statement may cause in the minds of TIME'S readers? The New
York Times magazine . . . was using quotations from the printed text to caption pictures before TIME was born. . . .
C. G. POORE Sunday Department The New York Times New York City
These News
Sirs:
The sentence "Last week these names made this news" brings to my memory an excerpt of correspondence, I believe accredited to Samuel Johnson, in which he answers a request for news by the assertion "No. not a single new." Perhaps you should change your caption to read, "Last week these names made these news."
CHAS. E. HARVEY
San Francisco, Calif.
Ingenious is the theory that "news" derives from an old newspaper practice of printing the compass points
N E WS
to advertise their universality. Actually, of course, the word derived from the French nouvellcs and is now construed as singular. It used to be a plural. Queen Victoria, for example, wrote: "The news from Austria are very sad. . . ."—ED.
Macy's Training School
Sirs:
I was reading your May 9 issue with great interest when I came upon the story of Walter Hoving and his new position with Montgomery Ward & Co. of whom we were once stanch customers back in the summer lake-months in northern Minnesota. But what interested me mostly was your phrase "entered Macy's 'training school' in 1924."
I am wondering why that was placed in quotes and I am also wondering how one enters Macy's '"training school" and also what the "training school" consists of. I have been advised to go into business and am trying to make a private little survey on how people get where they do. What I want to know now is how one enters such an institution as Macy's. . . .
DONALD E. SQUIRES
Long Beach Junior College Long Beach, Calif.
Macy's "training school" consists in a course of sprints through which new personnel ambitious for executive jobs are put. Prerequisites for a tryout are a college degree or at least three years in college, also a special psychological test. Past experience is taken into account as well as the impression the candidate makes when personally interviewed. For the young men & women who enter the "school" Macy's provides much actual experience as salesmen and floorwalkers, also lectures on merchandising and bookkeeping.—ED.