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This country and Georgia in particular are to be pitied when Talmadge has enough news value to rate a cover on TIME. I as a Georgian resent his being so dignified. He definitely does not represent the better element of a grand State. His very expression shows why he is through.
CALDER B. VAUGHN La Grange, Ga.
Sirs:
No Talmadge eulogizer nor necessarily a Russellover, my kudos nevertheless to alert newsgathering by an able newshawk for your "Georgia" political article (TIME, p. 10-11, Sept. 7).
Your photos reflect adequately TIME'S habitual tongue-in-cheek sophistication. Georgians may resent the implications in photos and news story but Georgians have no one to blame but—Georgians.
AUSTIN F. DEAN Editor-Owner The Gainesville Eagle Gainesville, Ga.
For last week's news of Georgia's Democratic primary, see p. 19.—ED.
TIME At Irun
Sirs:
TIME has been read in strange places under strange conditions but never until this month by a radio reporter waiting on a battlefield to broadcast carnage. Good fortune led me to pocket my unread copy of TIME as I started for the French frontier farm from which I had planned to describe the battle of Irun to Columbia's listeners —with sound effects by the combatants. The effects began soon after my microphone was installed between a haystack and a cornfield and with them came incessant shot & shell. The rapidly shifting fighting front had placed my haystack in direct line of rebel fire. Bullets sang overhead, pished into the haystack, and swished through the corn. It was impossible to move. Then I thought of TIME. For six hours, with an occasional break to survey fighting, fix my glasses on a bombing plane, or consult the French radio operator established behind the nearby farmhouse, I absorbed the Aug. 24 issue, including all ads (actual cover-to-cover reading time about three hours). Just as I was reading Medicine an airplane bomb landed in the corn field. Twice bullets cut our lines. Twice we missed getting through to New York. But in the end, after nine hours wait, the first actual battle broadcast in radio history took place.
Here's thanks to TIME for quieting my nerves and keeping me patient.
H. V. KALTENBORN Hendaye, France
Able, globe-trotting Radio Newscommentator Kaltenborn, once editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, has made ten successful broadcasts from the scene of the Spanish Revolution. —ED.
Coffee, Cakes & Actors
Sirs:
In your issue of Sept. 7 under the heading Medicine, you devote a great deal of space to Dr. Feinbloom and his contact lenses, and wonderful too! But why the remark: "They are inconspicuous for actors and other vain persons? . . ."
Granted, our job is an endeavor to try and 'look pretty" every so often—but it's a job—our coffee and cakes and hardly comes under the heading of vanity.
I've been associated with actors (God bless 'em!) all my life but the vainest man I ever knew was an editor.
CHESTER MORRIS Beverly Hills, Calif.
Clean Court