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Orchids to you for your clear, complete and reverent handling of all the news relevant to the Vatican since the death of His Holiness, Pope Pius XI. I was surprised and pained in reading the last few issues (our last is of March 20) to find no letter commending you on those splendid articles. Where are those who gave you a severe headwashing a few months back over the nickname applied to a certain clerical radiorator? Perhaps they unwisely canceled their subscriptions too soon. If not, they should be as ready with praise as they were with hysteric criticism.
TIME comes to us as the result of the kindness of a friend, and it is "the" magazine that all of us missionaries await most eagerly. No other keeps us so well informed on world affairs, and no other gets such a diligent cover-to-cover perusal. The one copy that comes to us weekly is pretty well frayed after the 18 American missionaries in our Vicariate are through.
REV. THEODORIC KERNEL, O.F.M.
Catholic Mission
Chowtsun, Shantung, China
Aquatint
Sirs:
Ave aqua vale!
You beat Billy Rose at his own game when you dubbed one of his performers an aquabat in your issue of May 15, p. 36.
Other suggestions with an aquatint: Why not have a hundred aqueducts swimming around in front of Billy Rose's aquapolis for a decorative note? And for a real sensation, have his "aquabelles" clothed in the sheerest aqua velva. Those who are tired of his aquiline can tell it to the aquamarines.
ALAN BARNES
Mexico, Mo.
Hole-in-One
Sirs:
For a golfer to "hole out in one" is considered something of an achievement. By holing out in one on the same course and at the same hole three times, twice on successive days, Major G. V. Golding of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, stationed at Peshawar on the North West Frontier of India, is believed to have set up a world's record.
On April 17, 1937, the Major holed out the 168-yards Fifth hole with his spoon shot from the tee. The feat was duly recorded — and celebrated. . . .
On April 24, 1939, the Major, playing Major J. Hennell of the Royal Indian Army Supply Corps, using his spoon and at the same hole (now renumbered the nth), repeated his feat of two years ago by holing in one. . . . -
The next day, he set out with a friend to go round the course and at the same old hole, using a No. 3 club and forsaking his spoon but playing with the same ball he demonstrated what had happened. To the amazement of both men he drove the selfsame ball for the second time on successive days straight from the tee to the hole. . . .
BERNARD FONSECA Bombay, India
Jalopy
Sirs:
Is it jalopy or jalopy ?Webster doesn't say and the two words have caused quite an uprising between two of our English teachers. Personally I think of a Model T spurting, spouting, chugging and loping. When speaking of a decrepit, dilapidated car, we express our thoughts as we think the object looks. So I would say it is jalopy, sorta carelessly.
But I would like your opinion so as to settle the argument in my mind. Thank you.
IDA PACINA
Blackfoot, Idaho