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> Of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, TIME'S book reviewer said: "It is Steinbeck's best novel . . . one of the most impassioned and exciting books of the year. . . . Steinbeck is a writer, still, of great promise."—ED.
Sirs:
Re review of The Grapes of Wrath (TIME, Feb. 12): If your worthy cinema reviewer had limited himself to a critique of the film instead of indulging himself in those stupid criticisms of the book on which the film was based, his review would have benefited considerably therefrom. . . .
MIRIAM HUBBEL
Columbia, Mo.
Nomination
Sirs:
The death of Lord Tweedsmuir leaves the office of Governor General of Canada vacant. . . .
In the writer's humble opinion it has always been the wish of the people of Canada to have the Duke of Windsor take up permanent residence in our country.
I sincerely believe that the King by such an appointment would receive not only the wholehearted thanks of the whole nation but also the thanks of the people of the United States and Great Britain. . . .
The Duke of Windsor is a born diplomat who has much political and military knowledge and experience, and by now has the spiritual and moral experience that—so it seems—he so greatly needed when he abdicated the Throne of England in favor of his brother. . . .
The Duke of Windsor has always shown the sincerest enthusiasm and deepest interest in Canada and its people, and during his many visits to the Dominion he won the warmhearted acclaim of the whole nation. . . .
He is the one and only person that this country needs in these troublous times to cement the two great races in Canada into one loyal mass. . . .
MORRIS GOODMAN
Montreal, Canada
Cinemasses
Sirs:
What do you mean by "cinemasses" [Feb. 12]?
WILLIAM KENNEDY
Cleveland, Ohio
Sirs:
Your coinage of words is contributing both to the wealth and to the clarity of the American language—with but one exception: your word cinemasses.
The word should be hyphenated, but where? Before or following the m?
ALLAN M. WILSON
Washington, D. C.
> Before the m.—ED.
Women at Work
Sirs:
To some statements on p. 29, TIME, Feb. 12, I wish to take exception:
Eve Curie's biography of her mother gives no indication that Pierre Curie was ever Marie Sklodovska's Physics Professor.
It is unlikely that Professor Curie thought his daughter Eve "something of a flibbertigibbet"; she was less than 18 months old when he died.
The term "Imperial Russia" gives the wrong impression, too. Marie taught as a governess in Russian Poland.
Minor points, these, yet they distort the picture Eve Curie has given us of her illustrious father and mother.
RYNTHA OLDHAM STURGES
Vienna, Va.
> 1) Pierre Curie was in charge of the physics laboratory in which Marie Sklodovska went to work; 2) Eve was a lively baby; 3) Poland was a part of Imperial Russia.—ED.
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