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Sirs: I protest the insipid, too-sweet, smirking voice with which "March of Time" represented Eleanor Roosevelt on the evening of June 12. Never could such a voice depict the forthright character of Mrs. Roosevelt. 'Tis said Mrs. Landon plays the harp. One string thereon, it is safe to say, will not be muted this season—the one singing the praises of the oldfashioned, (horse-&-buggy days) sweet, retiring homebody who "lets the Gov. do the talking." If she refuses to strum it herself, partisan followers will twang it to the breaking point of hearers' sensibilities if not of the string itself. I have no doubt Mrs. Landon is a most estimable person but partisans who work overtime to give her the character of the modest female who knows her place to be the home and who "knows what is going on but tries to hide it," should remember what most of the world knows—that it is such women who have ever been more prone to exert sub rosa, unfair, selfish influence behind the scenes than have women who admit that they have a thought or two about things outside the home and, on occasion, express them without guile or pose. A thing to be admired in the Franklin Roosevelt family is the respect each shows for the individualities of the others and their recognition of the right of each to speak and act for himself or herself. MABEL RUNDALL BOUFFIOUX
Molalla, Ore.
Admirer in Moscow
[In reporting Governor Landon's pre-nomination activities in its May 18 issue, TIME printed a photograph of the Governor being interviewed in his home by Journalist-Scion Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.— ED.] Sirs:
MAY 18 TIME JUST RECEIVED HERE UPON ARRIVAL TRANS-SIBERIAN FROM MANCHUKUO, CHINA, JAPAN, MONGOLIA. INTERVIEWED GOVERNOR LANDON ONCE FOR RADIO SPONSORS. HAVE
BEEN ADMIRER FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT MANY YEARS AND STILL AM.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT JR. Moscow
Army's Reynolds
Sirs:
In future let TIME proofreaders watch theif A's and N's or suffer stern rebuke.
Much as we like our sister service, we jealously cherish the abilities of brilliant Surgeon General Charles R. Reynolds, U. S. A., not U. S. N. as erroneously reported under ''Kudos" (TIME, June 22).
JAMES M. HYNES
Lieut. Colonel Auxiliary Reserve, U. S. A. Granby, Colo.
Coast Guard's Stone
Sirs:
Your magazine TIME, of three weeks ago [June 1] carried an account of the death of Commander E. F. Stone, U. S. Coast Guard, commanding the Aviation Station at San Diego, Calif.
The account indicated he was a member of the U. S. Navy, which is in error. Commander Stone did serve with the Navy, particularly in the matter of the trans-atlantic flight of the NC-4, under Commander A. C. Read, in 1919, but he was a graduate of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in the class of 1913 and continued to serve in the Coast Guard until his death.
L. W. PERKINS
Lieut. Commander Public Relations Officer
U. S. Coast Guard
Washington, D. C.
Massachusetts State's Godbout