Letters: Oct. 5, 1983

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Putnam had known better the ways of Oakland public schools in the '80s, he might have invented a yarn less easy to refute.

LEO STEIN Settignano, Italy

1948 It has come to my attention that in your Current & Choice section, Lauren Bacall has consistently been left out of the cast of Key Largo.

Inasmuch as there are those of us in Hollywood, Miss Bacall among them, who would rather make Current & Choice than win an Academy Award or make Men of Distinction, won't you please include her in the cast of Key Largo in Current & Choice just once, as she is my wife and I have to live with her. Miss Bacall is extremely tired of being labeled et al.

HUMPHREY BOGART

Beverly Hills

1949 I didn't know I had been hired and fired by Theatre Arts until I read about it in TIME. What else has been happening to me lately that I ought to know about?

WILLIAM SAROYAN New York City

TIME regrets that it is fresh out of Saroyan news. All that the present editor [Charles MacArthur] of Theatre Arts has to say about this crisis in American letters is that it occurred while he was in Europe and he remains Mr. Saroyan's most faithful fan.—ED.

1950 Shouldn't Ausserordentlichhochgeschwindigkeitelectronenenwickelndesschwerabeitsbeigollitron [TIME, March 13] read Ausserordentlichhochgeschwindigkeitelectronenentwickelndesschwerarbeitsbeigollitron?

(REV.) T. M. HESBURGH, C.S.C.

Notre Dame, Ind.

Yes, as TIME'S Los Angeles and Philadelphia (but not Chicago) printers had it.—ED.

1951 It gives me great pleasure again to find myself in your pages. Segment by segment I discover myself, as it were, variously listed in the index. I get myself into Letters; I've been in Books and also Radio & TV. Now I have achieved Press. I'd love to make Cinema, but despair of Art or Science. Milestones will one day catch up with me.

Thanks. But I am saddened by the adjective ["Old Standby"]; I've earned it, of course, but hate to be reminded.

FAITH BALDWIN New Canaan, Conn.

1952 In your June 9 Letters Column, Randolph S. Churchill says TIME was wrong in referring to Czechoslovakia as "Britain's ally" and denounces the "holier than thou" attitude adopted by some Americans towards the English in regard to Munich, and states that England had no more moral or legal obligation to defend Czechoslovakia than had the U.S.

Britain's military alliance with France under the Locarno Pact of 1925 . . . although it did not guarantee Czechoslovakia against aggression as it did Belgium, made it inevitable that if France went to war to fulfill its own direct obligation under the Franco-Czech Treaty of 1924, England would be drawn in . . . England was deeply committed, by her treaty with France and by her official actions . . . The illustrious father of Mr. Churchill has admitted that Great Britain was deeply involved and that "it must be recorded with regret that the British Government not only acquiesced but encouraged the French Government in a fatal course" (Churchill, The Gathering Storm).

The U.S. had no political involvement in Europe in 1938 . . .

JOHN F. KENNEDY

House of Representatives

Washington, D.C.

1953 I am happy that Eleanor Steber had such a