Garbo's Feet Sirs: Why is there such a to-do about the size of Greta Garbo's feet (TIME, June 17)?
Almost every woman I know wears a shoe size between six and eight. I could name 20 personable young women, average height and slender, whose feet couldn't be fitted in less than a six and a half. Even a 5-ft., 90-pounder wears size five.
I'd like to know what size feet the rest of the movie queens totter around on if "7AA" is considered so unusual.
ELIZABETH F. GEARHEART
Shaker Heights, Ohio
At least one film actress, Binnie Barnes, is credited with a larger shoe than Greta Garbo's — 7½AA. A cursory survey of other foot sizes produces the following: Claire Dodd 7AAA, Helen Vinson 7AA, Joan Blondell 6C, Marion Davies 6B, Carole Lombard 5½A, Norma Shearer 5½A, Jean Harlow 3½C.— ED.
Adorers, Admirers
Sirs:
The traditional orchids and my own humble commendations to you for your splendid, intelligent and unbiased analysis of our "Father" Hutchins and this noble university with its eminently successful "New Plan" [TIME, June 24]. Adored by the co-eds and admired by the rest of us, Prexy Hutchins is backed, almost without exception, by a solid student body in his determined stand against the over-zealous news-gathering of a Knox-McCormick-Hearstian press. The majority of students are so intent upon fulfilling the strenuous academic requirements of this institution that they are quite indifferent to the radical tongue-wavings of the very few who apparently take sides not from any soul-deep conviction but for the notoriety of it. One might well suppose that if some of the outside alarmists were a little more exposed to any educational system they would be a mite more broad-minded when it comes to criticizing the teachings of a university as well-conceived and directed as is this one.
Again I thank you for your comprehensive review of the situation; my TIME-respecting family at home as well as the other 499,999 of your subscribers will be glad to know, I am sure, that we are not being coerced into reading the "Primer" by a lot of long-bearded "Reds" armed with machine guns and treatises on free love! ...
PAUL GUSTAFSON
Law Class of '37
Pi Kappa Alpha U. of C. Chicago, Ill.
Sirs:
Hurrah for TIME's lengthy article under Education in the June 24th issue concerning Chicago's Hutchins. The entire account was splendid and unbiased, paying tribute to a truly great educator. TIME's occasional bitterness and scathing sarcasm in regard to prominent people were well omitted in this account of such an outstanding man. JANE SCOULLER
Pontiac, Ill.
"Communist Cancer"
Sirs:
Your jaunty review of the Legislative Committee's investigation of radicalism at the University of Chicago (TIME, June 24) is as misleading as the idea that anything but a whitewash was conducted, except for Senator Baker. At the farcical hearings every anti-Communist witness with evidence on the subject was shamelessly browbeaten, insulted and repressed.