Letters, Aug. 23, 1948

Dead Issue

Sir:

After Mel Pattern's poor showing in the Olympics 100-meter dash, I am quite convinced that having one's picture on the cover of TIME is . . . the kiss of death.

SAMUEL SLATER Ithaca, N.Y.

¶ Sprinter Patton looked very much alive in winning the 200.—ED.

Pipeline for Democracy

Sir:

. . . I have to confess that despite all the trouble they caused us, the onetime National Socialists had my sympathy, after the war even more than before; perhaps it was a captured paratrooper's obstinacy. But after returning home from captivity in the fall of 1946 my opinion began to change . ....

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