Letters, Jan. 9, 1956

A Place in the Sun

Sir:

Delightful spread on Florida's Governor Roy Collins [Dec. 19]—a real booster for and credit to his state, which is fast becoming the Detroiters' "second home."

RICHARD P. PETTY

Detroit

Sir:

Though I love Florida's sun and air (which would have made Goethe desert Italy), and I respect its universities and the state's intellectual and cultural life, world travelers agree that nowhere have men so systematically tried to ruin what once was, and still partially is, the loveliest and most stimulating of all combinations of water and earth.

C. M....

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