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In its Anglo-Saxon variant it is a word used by generals, small children and even high-born ladies in their cups when the ultimate in hopelessness is revealed . . .
CARL APPONYI Los Angeles, Calif.
¶ Like all other versions (including TIME'S), Reader Apponyi's is apparently apocryphal. — ED.
Ohahogan
Sir:
Your otherwise accurate magahogan [on Disc Jockey Jim Hawthorne] is far afield in its translation of the name of the home of Hoganites. It is Pasahogan, not Pasadena-hogan as reported in your May 10 issue.
NEELY PLUMB
North Hollywood, Calif.
Sir:
... I BELIEVE THE WORD "SCATTYBOO" WHICH TIME USED WILL ALMOST ECLIPSE THE WORD HOGAN AMONG MY FOLLOWERS. IN FACT, THE NEW HOGANSLOGAN IN THESE PARTS IS "SCATTYBOO AND HOGAN TOO. . ."
HAWTHORNE
Los Angeles, Calif.
Jeers, Cheers & Muscle
Sir:
TIME'S review of Horace McCoy's Kiss Tomorrow Good-Bye [TIME, May 10] was as insensitive as the review claimed Mr. McCoy's book to be ... No book can be this bad, even if it were transcribed from "the literature of men's-room walls."
TIME, in its impetuous desire to display satirical muscles, neglected to note McCoy's adroit use of symbolism, the uncanny fluency and nearness of his dialogue, and the influence (for good or bad) of Henry Miller upon his writing. I predict that TIME will shortly be forced to eat the cynicism and satire that was so flippantly fired from the side of its mouth . . .
To me, Kiss Tomorrow Good-Bye is superior to both Cain and Hemingway . . .
BRUCE MILLAR JR.
Georgetown, Conn.
Sir:
Dizzy Dean was credited with saying that on the pitcher's mound he couldn't tell the difference between jeers and cheers. They both sounded good. Perhaps authors feel the same way about having their books reviewed in TIME? . . .
EVELYN S. GARDNER
Thiensville, Wis.
¶ Perhaps (see below). — ED.
Sir:
HELP ! HELP ! HELP ! HELP ! HELP ! HELP ! HELP ! HELP ! HELP ! HELP !
HORACE McCoY
New York City
History's Hirelings (Cont'd)
Sir:
One of your readers opposes U.S. Army recruiting of volunteers in Europe, compares these volunteers to Persian slaves, Carthaginian back-stabbing hirelings and mercenaries, and concludes: "When we are reduced to having others fight for our freedom, we shall not deserve to have any" [TIME, May 3].
Millions of Americans would have been maimed or killed in battle and the remainder enslaved or gassed, if they had permitted such blind prejudice against "others" to sway their judgment to the point of refusing those "others" (from Britain, Canada, Australia, Continental Europe and elsewhere) the right to volunteer to save the lives of these Americans and of those dear to them—in the big fight against the Axis.
The letter I refer to has hurt the feelings of more people than you can possibly imagine.
S. D. ABRAMOFF Rotterdam, Holland
Growing Pains
Sir: