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In your editorial comment concerning Count Luckner in TIME, April 28, you stated: "the Count likes to tell people he is 72, then show he is still in the prime by tearing telephone books in two." This is just another example of German boasting based upon bluff. Anyone can tear a telephone book in two if he knows the trick, which is as follows: Crease the book in the center with the thumbs until a triangle is formed. Then pull directly backward.
BERNARD N. E. COHN, M.D. Denver, Colo.
Fellows v. "Fellowes"
Sirs:
In TIME, April 28, you liken the appearance, sartorially speaking, of Admiral Sir Percy Noble to "a Lawrence Fellowes." . . .
If the "Lawrence Fellowes" should by chance be the' originator of the sartorially resplendent gentlemen frequently appearing in Esquire, you have mispelled the name. Our family eliminated the "e" long, long ago.
J. H. FELLOWS Washington, B.C.
— Lawrence Fellows is indeed Esquire's creator of sartorially resplendent gentlemen. TIME put an "e" where none belonged, apologizes to all Fellowses—especially to Reader J. H., who has dropped an "s" from "mispelled."—ED.
"Etc."
Sirs : Your partial listing of national private-welfare groups (TIME, April 21) is not up to your usual concise and explicit reporting or up to your usual extreme fairness to all religious groups.
'"Etc." is not recognition to any group—and in this news item it covers the sixth and only one omitted which is the National Catholic Community Service. Having worked . . . locally (with two agencies listed) on this "streamlined U.S.O." I find the National Catholic Community Service leading several others in its interest. . . .
LOLA McCOLLOCH
St. Joseph, Mich.
Paradox
Sirs:
It is quite surprising to this reader that Germany has a contraceptive factory at all, let alone Fromm's big one mentioned under "Capitalism in Germany" (TIME, April 7).
Could you give me additional information about this paradox of a big contraceptive plant in a country whose leaders preach fertility? . . .
PRIVATE WILLIAM HEIMER Mitchel Field, Long Island, N.Y.
> Inquiry by TIME through a maze of German Government bureaus, divisions and departments has failed to disclose any Nazi decree against sale of contraceptives. However, contraceptive equipment used by women is not manufactured and has vanished from drugstores and doctors' cabinets. Fromm's product, a common article used by men, although doubtless much employed as a contraceptive, is considered primarily an antivenereal prophylactic, and so is heartily approved of by the health-conscious Nazis. This product is on sale in every drugstore, in many hotel washrooms and nightclubs. Great quantities have been shipped to France for occupation troops, among whom the demand is so heavy that French supplies have also been drawn on.
Though birth control for sound German women with sound German mates is strongly discouraged, the Reich approves of contraceptive measures for German soldiers mating with women of "inferior" (i.e., other) races.—ED.
Law in Italy
Sirs: