Letters, Mar. 3, 1958

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In the Delphi Museum there is a bronze statue of a charioteer made about 470 B.C. Jockeys don't seem to have changed much over the centuries—compare Chapin's Hartack with his ancient counterpart.

BARBARA FELIX Redwood City, Calif.

Sir:

Your horse age cover seems to me about 3,000 years behind the times.

FREDERIC BESSINGER Seal Beach, Calif.

Sir:

Willie Hartack started our Man o' War granddaughter, Bright Fate, to fame, broke her maiden and then the track record for one and one-sixteenth miles at Charles Town in 1954 after other jockeys had failed to bring her home in the money.

Besides Willie's skill and determination, we think he possesses the ability to communicate a sense of excitement and extra determination to the horse.

HAROLD D. MENKEN Upperville, Va.

Spare the Rod?

Sir:

I am not applauding Teacher Gayle Graner [who paddled a card-playing fourth-grader, TIME, Feb. 10], Was it not a school system that insisted on the strictest possible discipline which mass-produced Hitler's hoodlums not so long ago?

DOROTHY BLONDER Hollywood

Sir:

Cheers to Schoolmarm Gayle Graner. Too bad she can't use the same tactics on Roscoe's parents for the audacity of their $2,500 suit.

BARBARA G. COLONEY Charlottesville, Va.

Sir:

In these progressive times, there is another course open to Teacher Graner: she can play poker with eleven-year-old, fourth-grade Roscoe, and see just who beats up whom.

NANCY GLIDDEN THOMSON, M.D. San Francisco

Sir:

When a child in Switzerland would come home crying to mother that the teacher had given him or her a paddling, the chances are nine out of ten that mama would follow up with more of same. I suggest Miss Graner work over Roscoe some more.

FRANK H. STUCKERT Los Angeles

Sir:

I want to thank you for the fine article about me. I appreciated it very much and have had many gratifying letters from many of your readers.

GAYLE GRANER Park Hills, Ky.