Letters, Nov. 24, 1941

Banjo Boy Sirs: In TIME, Oct. 27, your article "Heroes" [about the theory that Abraham Lincoln was John Calhoun's illegitimate son] is a blot on your journalistic record that will be and should be hard to overcome.

Will you give us a biographical sketch of "Honorable" Felix E. Alley mentioned in same? M. C. BLAIR Carlisle, Ky.

>Now a judge of North Carolina's Superior Court, Felix E. Alley—on whose Random Thoughts and Musings of a Mountaineer TIME reported — has had quite a life of his own. Born in 1873 at the base...

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