Art and the Commissioner
Sirs:
You recently published in TIME [Jan. 14] a squib indicating that I had been "righteously rude" and had thundered at "a small-statured victim."
The facts, which are not even dimly reflected in your characteristically snappy piece, are these:
A radio show (national hookup) gave a veteran soldier and amateur sculptor some clay, told him to make a statue of his wife, and notified all and sundry listeners that this work, encased in sort of permanent coating, would be shipped to New York to be conspicuously placed in its park system....
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