Letters, May 12, 1947

Is He Is?

Sirs:

In 1940 or 1941 [another] magazine said that there was no such person as your Contributing Editor Peter Mathews. Merely a nice name: one to use as a catch-all for blame.

I notice in "Business & Finance" [TIME, April 21 ] a fictitious Peter Mathews as the driver of a moppetful car of "Burma-Shave" sign readers.

Peter Mathews—is he is or is he ain't?

GEORGE E. McCLURE

Long Beach, Calif.

¶ Reader McClure must have missed TIME Correspondent Peter Mathews' thrilling reports from Lower Slobbovia [TIME, Oct. 7].—ED.

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