"Rich Man's Magazine"
Sirs:
TIME is my favorite magazine. In St. Petersburg, Fla., recently I made a canvass of a number of newsstands before I found a copy of TIME. When found, the man behind the counter remarked when he handed it to me, "This is only a rich man's magazine." When asked why he thought so, he said: "One never sees the portrait of any other than a rich man, on the front cover." He challenged me to name a single exception. I could not do it. Are there any ?
T. M. EDMISTON
Newark, Ohio
Comparatively "poor men" who have appeared on TIME's cover: Anton Lang, John L. Lewis, Pope Pius XI, Alfred E. Smith, Paul von Hindenburg, Andrew Volstead, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Togo, René Fonck, Helen Wills, Joseph Conrad, Carrie Chapman Catt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Eugene O'Neill, John Joseph Pershing, Abd-el-Krim, Ramsay MacDonald and Leon Trotzky—ED.
People
Sirs :
Since every Bozo in the country has an opportunity in LETTERS to gripe or gloat over TIME's policy from size to the red border, may I take this opportunity to find fault with the dropping of the column PEOPLE? . . .
E. C. KUSTERER
Birmingham, Ala.
Let Subscriber Kusterer examine the Table of Contents of this issue, on p. 9.—ED.
Cohens, Bergs
Sirs:
In TIME, Feb. 14, which I read as carefully and as thoroughly as every issue of TIME which reaches me, you have an articles "Steps" under MISCELLANY.
Whatever can have been your purpose in the use of the introductory sentence* I cannot fathom, unless it were a desire to be "smart. . . ."
Apropos of this paragraph: I read it to my wife (we are Jewish) who recently was thrown by an automobile on our principal thorofare, and who, contrary to your innuendo, made no fuss when she discovered that she had no injuries beyond a few bruises; that, even though the motorist was traveling along entirely beyond a reasonable rate of speed. Just yesterday she related her experience to a neighbor, who embraces the Christian faith, and this neighbor asked her hastily and excitedly, "Did you get anything"? and added, "I would not have let him get away with it!"
Not much different from the Cohens and Bergs.
ALEXANDER E. ABRAMSON
Belleville, N. J.
"Jew"
Sirs:
Under TIME, Feb. 7, p. 38, you printed: "Princeton footballer, saturnine Knowlton L. ('Jew') Ames Jr., publisher of the Chicago Journal of Commerce." Why ("Jew") in parenthesis?
DR. J. WESSELOWSKI
Jewell City, Kan.
Able son and namesake of an able father, Knowlton L. ("Jew") Ames Jr. was called "Junior" by his family to avoid confusion. After "Junior" was abbreviated to its first syllable for convenience, friends, to tease, spelled it "Jew." The able father, Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames, was also a footballer; derived his nickname from his elusive, "squirmy," hard-to-tackle action as quarterback of Princeton elevens in 1886-89.—ED.
"Mademoiselle Fifi"
Sirs: