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Commander Floyd Jeffe Sexton commands the Cayuga which was in Spanish waters on the Coast Guard's Annual cadet practice cruise.—ED.
Tully's Pal
Sirs: '
I always read the personality sketches in TIME with vast interest. They are, since Mencken faded from the Mercury, the best in America.
I'd like to call your attention to my pal, Ben Lindsey, now judge of the superior court in California. As you no doubt remember he came back to win by the largest vote ever given a man in this State. In line with publisher Harlan Palmer's surprising vote here this week, I might add that it could hardly have been possible without Judge Lindsey. Two of his most loyal friends out here are myself and Gene Fowler. He helped us both when we were struggling kids. And we remember. Roosevelt and Farley shoved the judge all over Washington—he came back here, broken in health and purse in spite of Roosevelt's smiles—and he went to work—and is now the most powerful man in the State—through the sheer love of people for one who never betrayed them. All-knowing as Abraham Lincoln, yet with the great heart of a child, when I begin to despair of men, I think of Ben Lindsey.
JIM TULLY North Hollywood, Calif.
Downtrodden Model
Sirs:
TIME for Aug. 24 contains an advertisement for Scripps-Howard Newspapers whose accompanying picture would, I think, bear interesting investigation as to its model. Is not the poor, downtrodden . . . adult female none other than our anti-taxation crusading Kathleen Norris?
My suspicions would not be as much aroused if I had not also seen her picture in the same or similar costume not long ago when she allegedly took part in an anti-something-or-other play or pageant.
. . . I really should be delighted to have this model's identity traced. If she is Mrs. Norris, then U. S. propaganda is going in for "the real thing."
TILLIE M. ANTHONY Sheffield, Ala.
Not Kathleen Norris but Charlotte Salkow, a Brooklyn professional, is the model for the peasant woman in the Scripps-Howard ad.—ED.
Cartons to Tins
Sirs:
Your reference to American Tobacco Company's radio program on p. 37 of TIME, Aug. 31, is quite interesting.
Luckies' President Hill claims at least 6,500,000 entries last week. One wonders if he is so naive as to believe that one adult out of every eleven in this country enters his contest. True, an immense number do, but one in eleven?
I personally know of one case where an adult entered no less than 22 cards in one week. I know dozens of others where anywhere from three to a score of entries have been made by one individual.
In every contest, of course, there is dishonesty, but unfortunately this one takes the prize. Due, I imagine, to the large percentage of winning entries, spurious though they may be, Mr. Hill has been obliged to discontinue his offer of a carton of cigarettes, and now gives a tin, thus saving about $150,000,000 a week, I estimate.
CHESTER BURGER Brooklyn, N. Y.
Gossip and Gable
Sirs:
We usually enjoy the "Hollywood Hotel" programs, but invariably shut off our radio whilst Louella introduces her "guests."