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I am a subscriber, reader, and admirer of TIME. I am also a subscriber, "looker," and admirer of LIFE. There are, I am certain, many more throughout the world. I want to register one complaint, however. The two magazines come too close together, sometimes by the same mail. In such cases I am like the proverbial ass standing between two haystacks of equal attractiveness. Wouldn't it be possible to have LIFE come earlier in the week? I believe many subscribers would appreciate this.
ROLAND MONCURE Salem, Va.
Well aware are the managements of TIME and LIFE of their common readers' Friday indecision, equally undesirable to each magazine. Plans are being studied to avoid a mutual distribution day.—ED.
Bamboo Mistake
Sirs:
With reference to the letter written to you by Hon. D. C. Marshall of Forty Fort, Pa. (TIME, Feb. 1) in regard to the bamboo shoots required for the diet of Su-lin, the giant panda, I noticed that he states the northernmost point he has seen the plant growing is just outside Jacksonville, Fla.
All of which reminds me that some few years ago my brother Clem got ahold of a small piece of bamboo root and made the tragic mistake of planting it in the back yard of our home in Tifton, Ga.
Which is to advise that the bamboo shoots not only started coming up. but that within a year or so the whole neighborhood was endangered by this very prolific plant. So bad did it begin to spread that we had to devise a very elaborate system of trenches around the area to keep it in bounds. Even that is not 100% efficient, and it just struck me if we could get ahold of that panda thing our problem might be solved.
JAMES M. CARSON Dalton, Ga.
Sirs:
There has probably been too much said all ready about the panda and I do not know anything more about them, but I do know about bamboo growing in America and thought you might be interested to know that I am growing three kinds here and one of them is over 30 ft. high. They are, Bambusa aurca, yellow canes; Bambusa argenteostriata grows 30 ft.; Bambusa Metake, hardiest bamboo.
OSMOND L. BARRINGER
Charlotte, N. C.
Montague at Del Monte
Sirs:
The "Mysterious Montague" whom you mention under Sport in the Jan. 25 issue is not as mysterious as your Los Angeles sleuth makes him out to be. ...
When he played Del Monte's seaside Pebble Beach links, the caddie kept a score for himself and maintains Montague never shot under 74. Par is 72. ...
HERBERT CERWIN
Promotion Manager Hotel Del Monte Del Monte, Calif.
Pressagent Cerwin's employer, President Samuel F. B. Morse of Del Monte Properties Co., believes the statement that Golfer Montague, with a simple putt left at the 17th and a par on the 18th for a record 66 on Pebble Beach, picked up his ball and walked off. The 18th hole at Pebble Beach is 550 yd. Golfer Montague is reliably recorded as having been on this green in two shots.—ED.
Lucky's Reynolds