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In your issue of Jan. 10 you give the American Student Union a lot more consideration than it deserves. ... I assure you, on U. S. campuses people who belong to the American Student Union are not taken particularly seriously. It is not that they are mostly second-generation Europeans; it is not that they talk too loudly and wear badly-fitted clothes; it is just that they are so damned publicity hungry.
IAMES J. WHITCOMBE New Haven, Conn.
Cheapskates at Atlantic City
Sirs:
. . . We should be very much interested to learn the source of information used by you in the Jan. 10 issue of TIME, for we feel that there is a grave error somewhere. You said that Mr. C. D. White, our Mayor, once remarked that only "cheapskates" come to Atlantic City. Our Mayor is entirely too much of a gentleman to refer to any convention as a group of "cheapskates," and most certainly no person in this city in his right mind would so deliberately offend any organization.
We particularly regret that this occurred in connection with so fine a group of thinking people as was represented by the convention referred to. . . .
T. L. HUSSELTON Executive Manager Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce Atlantic City, N. J.
Let Reader Husselton heed what he reads, Mayor White did not call members of the Allied Social Science Association names. TIME reported that he said the type of visitor attracted by Atlantic City's former press bureau was a "cheapskate.''—ED.
Accurate De Mille
Sirs:
In National Affairs, Jan. 17: "... The New Deal has made the seventh President's birthday a national political fiesta." And: "Robert Houghwout Jackson ... in the prelude to his namesake's birthday. . . ."
Then, in Cinema: "The Buccaneer (Paramount). On Jan. 8, 1815, 'Old Hickory' Jackson and his ragged army . . . turned back the British at New Orleans in an extra-inning battle of the War of 1812."
All good Democrats know their Party celebrates the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans and not Jackson's birthday, which is March 15. ...
Your cinema man while investigating Mr. De Mille's historical accuracy could have been of assistance to your National Affairs editors, whose research TIME is evidently occupied with investigations of people's middle names.
J. C. LOONEY Chairman Democratic Executive Committee
Hidalgo County, Tex.
To TIME'S National Affairs editors and researchers, a shocked reproof for being less accurate than Mr. Cecil B. De Mille.—ED.
Fan Sirs:
In the theatre business, box office, as you no doubt know, is largely determined by names and exploitation. Therefore when quite a few of my patrons mention that they saw the reviews in TIME and have been influenced in coming to see certain pictures which lacked both star names and noise— I, and there are probably other exhibitors who have benefited in the same way, am definitely grateful to you and to your movie critic, whose writings are not colored by blurbs but are sincere and impartial and accepted as that by the movie-going public.
H. J. SHAPIRO Manager Anthony Wayne Theatre Wayne, Pa.
Retired
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