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I have educated my wife up to appreciating you, and shall shortly commence on my friends—including the young doctor who knows it all and his wife who thinks she does; the assistant organist who dotes on the word "esoteric" and knows how to pronounce it; and the uncle of mine who audits books of one kind so that he may have the price to buy books of another kind. I have been spending too much time Mondays driving all the way down town trying to locate TIME on some stand that isn't "all sold out." Kindly mail the magazine to my home address, as per the inclosed coupon. JOSHUA S. SARASOHN
Sarasohn Stores Co.
Detroit, Mich.
"Pines" Whistled
Sirs:
Continuing the discussion of Respighi's "Pines of Rome" [TIME, Nov. 1], you may be interested in knowing that when this composition was played by the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Shavitsch, Mrs. Edward O'Hara whistled the nightingale's song in place of a phonograph record. This was done on two occasions.
CARLTON L. HOMMEL
Syracuse, N. Y.
Body & Soul
Sirs: I have been receiving TIME and have noted your attitude toward the great mass of Protestant Americans. Your SLURS and insinuations ... demonstrated to me, that you are Owned and Controlled—body and soul, by that class of people (not citizens) who come to us from South Europe. In some of your issues, it would seem that yours was a Fascisti Journal edited by the Italian dictator himself. I do not know how much longer my subscription extends but I assure you that although, I have at one time had a very high regard for the information in your magazine, your recent articles proves to me that you cannot be fair, because you don't own yourself, and I do not care to contribute to Stuff that emanates from our foreign city element. . . JOSEPH M. HANCOCK, M. D.
Chandler, Okla.
Palindrome
Sirs:
. . . For a good half century I have been foreseeing just such a news organ as you have materialized. Instead of spreading news in the rough, a la the conventional newspaper, you present the day's doings as seen through the spectrum of human sentiment. . . . You give no department to humor as such, nor need any. . . .
The palindromes appearing of late remind me of several. This entire sentence has been, insincerely of course, attributed to Capt. Kydd: "Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel. . . ."
FRED W. PROCTOR
Tacoma, Wash.
*A mistake. TIME coined the word "newsmagazine," and, although the word is now often used to describe any weekly dealing with current events, it is properly applicable only to TIME.—ED.