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... In your article [TIME, June 17], "Rear Row Voice" on Senator Brown from New Hampshire you made an error. Five Brothers is a long cut and not a plug tobacco. The dirt movers commissary that built the railroads of the last three or four decades carried Five Brothers. The lumber camp commissaries and boarding places and stores that furnished the railroad construction and operation, carried F. Adams Peerless tobacco. Of course Paul Bunyan of logging fame chewed Peerless and spit against the wind. Some of us that came up the pioneer route hated to acknowledge to ourselves in later life that we were not vigorous enough to use Peerless. It is a real he-man that uses Five Brothers or Peerless and it is well to know that the august lot of Senators contain some men that use a real man's tobacco.
R. P. COOK
Park Ridge, Ill.
Sirs:
Evidently TIME's editor spent all his college days in the classroom and none on the baseball field, when TIME, June 17, states that New Hampshire's Brown chews two 2O¢ plugs of Five Brothers a day. Since when did this brand assume this form? . . .
ROBERT E. GROVE
Vice President
Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove, Inc. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sirs:
. . . Allow me to correct you. Five Brothers is a shredded pipe tobacco. Very strong to the average smoker and smeller. Very bitter to the chewer but also satisfactory to an unusual degree after once becoming accustomed to it.
I can readily understand the Senator's long use of this brand of tobacco. It is for men only and they usually stick to it for their pipe or chew enjoyment.
WILLIAM J. BERGIN
St. Louis, Mo.
Let Readers Cook, Grove & Bergin study their tobacco facts. Five Brothers is produced in long cut and plug, to suit regional tastes. Often only one type is sold in one vicinity. New England is "plug country."—ED.
Bi-Carb Lion
Sirs:
We dislike the word "belching", used by Reader W. D. Humphrey in his letter about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's lion who emits the theme song of their "flickers" (TIME, June 24)—but my family always has called that particular lion by the name of "Bi-Carb"—and rather affectionately!
E. R. STREMPEL
Washington, D. C.
*President Hutchins is on the Moscow Summer School Advisory Board, part of the Institute of International Education under whose auspices U. S. students attend many a foreign summer session.—ED.