Letters, Jan. 2, 1933

Roosevelt & Legs

Sirs:

TIME of Dec. 5 contains the following:

"President-elect Roosevelt hobbled out of the White House elevator from the basement. . . ."

"At Warm Springs, Ga. last week President elect Roosevelt: . . . Began daily two-hour swims in the Foundation's indoor pool, followed by a massage of his shriveled legs. . . ."

Although somewhat hardened to TIME'S well-known but inane penchant for stressing the physical peculiarities of personages named in its columns, I cannot possibly comprehend how you can justify the utter cruelty of the sentences above quoted. Perhaps...

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