Mrs. Coolidge's Hair
Sirs:
When will Mrs. Calvin Coolidge have her hair bobbed? An INS (International News Service) article reported previous stories as rumors and subsequent denials made. TIME substantiated early reports. Were you correct?
A. M. LUCAS
Syracuse, N. Y.
Sirs:
In your Aug. 10 issue of TIME I was much surprised to see under heading of People on p. 22 the rumor—"Mrs. Calvin Coolidge bobbed her hair"—printed as a fact. You know, of course, this has been disproved.
GRAHAM ROHRER
Middletown, Pa.
Sirs:
Over the phone from her Littles Point (Swampscott) Summer home this noon, TIME-reader Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, regarded as like a mother to Grace, said:
"Of course Mrs. Coolidge has not bobbed her hair! In the first place, why should she wait until she got to Plymouth, if she had any intention of doing so? In the second place, Mrs. Joel T. Boone, who has just ended a three weeks' visit with us here, after a day spent with the Coolidges at Plymouth, assured me there was no truth in the bob-story.
"The Coolidges were our guests here July 3-6 (Fourth being Cal-birthday), before they went up to Plymouth. Mrs. Coolidge then wore the pretty crocheted white lace (note: Mrs. Stearns wasn't positive about the fabric—thought it might be silk or silk-and-wool) beret, with a small feather or some other ornamental touch. Her black-hair was tightly folded up under the cap. The resultant smooth hairline at the neck probably gave careless observers the bob idea."
EDWIN F. COLLINS
Boston, Mass.
TIME was misled by newshawks who beheld Mrs. Coolidge in her beret (see cut). Mrs. Coolidge's black hair, streaked with grey, is still long.—ED.
Crusaders & Drinking
Sirs: TIME'S headline in the July 27 issue "For Drinking" captioning story of James Goodwin Hall's record-breaking flight to Cuba is misleading. Famed Crusader Hall neither flew to Cuba to get a drink nor to indicate that the Crusaders favor drinking.
The Crusaders believe in temperance and that it can never be obtained until the 18th Amendment is repealed; they do not advocate the return of liquor or drinking; one has never left the country, the other has never ceased. The 32,000 speakeasies in New York make record breaking flights to Cuba to get a drink a foolish pursuit. Even here in the Nation's Capital and right in the shadow of the White House, the Department of Justice, the Prohibition Bureau, and the Methodist Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Public Morals, thousands—yes, thousands—of speakeasies have been raided.
Neither Aviator Hall nor The Crusaders advocate drinking, but TIME'S headline writer indicated they do. Let alert TIME Editors give him a thoroughgoing reprimand.
THE CRUSADERS
(Signed) JOHN F. DRYDEN
Executive Commander
(Signed) RUFUS S. LUSK Executive Vice-Commander
Washington, D. C.
The instant Crusader Hall alighted at Havana, President William Pawley of Curtiss Aviation Co. of Cuba handed him a Cuban cocktail. After gulping it, Crusader Hall ejaculated, "That alone was worth the trip!" Then he ordered another.—ED. Convict Kylsant
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