Letters, Jun. 10, 1935

(5 of 5)

Two air-minded brothers cannot sit back and let pass unnoticed your error in referring to Gerard Barnes Lambert as ''angel for the Lindbergh flight" (TIME, May 27).

Of the original eight backers of Col. Lindbergh — apparently now to become as numerous as Mayflowerites — my brother Albert, together with the writer, constituted the only representatives of the family.

We love our seafaring brother, Gerard, but believe in each man to his own medium. For ourselves, Albert and I insist in this instance on being "given the air."

WOOSTER LAMBERT

New York City

TIME gladly straightens the record of the Original Eight who back Col. Lindbergh. Besides Brothers Wooster & Albert Bond Lambert (Listerine), they were: Banker Harold McMillan Bixby, credited with naming the Lindbergh plane Spirit of St. Louis; the late Banker Harry F. Knight, his son & partner Harry Hall Knight; Publisher E. Lansing Ray of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Major William Bryan Robertson, vice president of Curtiss-Wright Airplane Co.. Earl C. Thompson, then operator of a one-plane sightseeing service at St. Louis Airport, now selling stocks, bonds & insurance at Kennett, Mo. — ED.

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Sour Note

Sirs:

I read the letters in TIME, April 29, sent by boosters of Anchorage, Alaska.

Even though Anchorage ranks third in population, it is a town of ill-constructed wooden buildings and shacks with a large percentage of its people unemployed and poverty-stricken.

In its four business blocks it has 37 saloons. brothels and gambling houses. Some of these are run by the town's leading boosters. . . .

E. H. LAVAN

Anchorage, Alaska

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Brand Habit

Sirs:

Add to diseases discovered by the medico-advertising departments of U. S. business (TIME, May 27) — Brand Habit, the insidiousness of which is explained by those good souls who torture the air waves on behalf of Kentucky Winners cigarets.

We gather that sufferers from this ailment neglect to buy Winners simply because they are used to asking for a particular brand, and therefore miss all the pleasures that Winners have to offer.

R. D. FIELDING Boston, Mass.

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Shock

Sirs:

I am shocked at your magazine. Many people told me it was a good magazine, so I thought I would buy one. I bought a May 27 issue, and the first thing that hit my eyes was the terrible picture of a movie star [Miriam Hopkins ] scantily dressed.

After that shock, I looked through the magazine and what should I see but a naked woman in a terrible pose. You can take my word for it, I will never buy TIME again as long as I live.

Hoping you go broke. . . .

MRS. ALBERT E. PRESTON

San Diego, Calif.

At San Diego last week Exposition-goers paid 25¢ to enter Zoro Gardens "nudist colony." Scores of gawpers saved the admission price by pressing their eyes to knotholes in the fence (see p. 16). — ED.