Letters: Letters, Aug. 21, 1939

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HANSON KELLOGG

Tallahassee, Fla.

*T. S. Eliot is an Anglo-Catholic, Evelyn Waugh a Roman Catholic.—ED.

≫Neither suppressed nor underground is British Author Aldous Huxley, now living in Pacific Palisades, Calif. His nearly-completed novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, is scheduled for publication this fall. A realistic fantasy, it tells of a rich man who tries to prolong his life scientifically, eventually reverts toward an ape.—ED.

Heaven & Earth Mover

Sirs:

I should appreciate your advising me if the rumor is true that the New York World's Fair will be held over until next year. . . .

I had planned to attend the Fair this fall . . . but now find that it will be practically impossible. However, if the Fair isn't to be available next year, I'll move Heaven and Earth to get there before it closes. . .

EDITH C. MCINTYRE

Missoula, Mont.

Sirs:

TIME might better criticize the pig-headed public in general and the boycotting New Yorkers in particular, instead of Grover Whalen and the World's Fair organization for lack of patronage at the World of Tomorrow. Perhaps the statement made by TIME in its July 24 issue, p. 54, that no U. S. world's fair ever charged more than 50¢ is true. But was there ever a fair, or any other show, which offered the public such superb entertainment from 9 a.m. until far into the night ?

When you go to the theatre you pay more than 75¢ to get in to see one show. At the Fair you see hundreds. . . . How many times have you seen a big-league baseball game, a doubleheader, even for an admission price of only 75¢? . . .

Why, it's worth the price of admission to see first-hand what Grover Whalen and his gigantic organization has accomplished and how efficiently the enterprise continues to be managed.

OLGA H. WEBBER

Washington, D. C.

"Irreligious Solicitude"

Sirs:

I cannot but send a word of thanks for your courage in reporting the recent goings-on of the Buchmanites ("Oxford Groupers") on the Pacific Coast with such insight and accuracy [TIME, July 31]. I know I speak the minds of many plain, ordinary church members, who hesitate to sound anything like a harsh note . . . when I say that the ballyhoo of these spiritual high-pressurists fills them with something akin to nervous suspicion and mistrust.