Letters, Aug. 6, 1973

Mailer, Money and the Defenseless

Sir / Pop slop. Grind, clunk. Dollars!

Norman Mailer [July 16] is like Varathane: bright, hard, but you can see right through him. Poor Marilyn. It's not nice to make money from the defenseless dead.

RUTH CAPER

Los Angeles

Sir / Your article on Marilyn Monroe was absolutely tantalizing. But did you have to include Mailer?

(THE REV.) JOHN GARISTO, O.S.F.S.

Center Valley, Pa.

Sir / In spite of everything that has been written about Marilyn Monroe, and every thing that was done to hurt her while she was living, one...