Tyler v. Lincoln

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"Lion's Den" Holdcroft P. 0., Charles City Co., Va.

The statement of TIME which occasioned Dr. Tyler's letter was to the effect that compared to Abraham Lincoln, John Tyler was "historically a dwarf. "ED.

Will Not Have It

Sirs:

We don't want a parochial product in the presidency and I don't want you TIME after seeing a copy.

The frontispiece [Gov. Smith], April 30, gives me enough of TIME for all time. Please cancel. . . . I will not have it in my home.

JOHN T. HARBOLD, M. D.

Dallastown, Pa.

Whew!

Sirs:

. . . Ziggy's face on the front cover, and Bishop IvIcConnell on page 30 [TIME, May 14]. Whew!

A. E. BRUCE

Claremont, Calif.

Dumpy

Sirs:

TIME has so much good in it, so much to recommend it that if a little better judgment were exercised, less criticism would be in order.

For instance, in your May 14 issue, 3rd column, page 18, what possible excuse have you for referring to the late Queen Victoria of England as "dumpy"; the word lacks respect when it refers to that beloved ruler of a Great Nation who during her life was described as "the most Queenly woman and the most womanly Queen of her time."

CHARLES R. STOREY

Brockton, Mass.

"Dumpy" is an exact, descriptive adjective, meaning, according to Webster's New International, "short and thick, of proportionately low stature." TIME is exact.—ED.

Hammond Flayed

Sirs:

I gather increasing entertainment each week, from TIME'S letters, especially from such diverting ones as that of John H. Hammond Jr., (May 7). This lad must be very Junior indeed; the sophomoric conceit fairly oozes from him. The prospect of your losing Mr. Hammond Jr.'s patronage, "unless you change your style or start a phonographic record department" must present a saddening alternative. Incidentally, our Junior's use of such verbal banalities as "quite a few," "Variety has far more than you" and so on, emphasizes the nerve of him, in assuming the role of Mentor to TIME in the matter of style.

May the rest of us hope that TIME will mercifully refrain from forming its style on Mr. Hammond Jr.'s model? We might stand for the canned music department, but not for the other.

CARL MARSHALL

Ettersburg, Calif.

No Hiding

Sirs:

Anent the regrettable misadventure of His Excellency Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., at the Shenandoah Blossom Festival (TIME, May 14), without wishing to enter into the grammatical status of that "dark-complected" gentleman, may I not suggest that perhaps the "stupid race-blindness" of which you speak might have been displayed not by Mrs. Reynolds but by those warm persuaders of the Pasha who failed to realize that the Negro strain is as evident when promulgated through a line of princes and pashas as when through the humblest Senegambian dragged unwillingly into slavery, and that, unfortunately, or otherwise, depending upon the point of view, neither title nor position can hide it from the Southerner's eye? ARCHIBALD MCDONALD

Ingram, Texas