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There is ample forest land untouched by fire to provide full recreational facilities, ample supplies to support industry, and adequate protection for wild life in all areas of Maine. Next year and for unnumbered years to come, Maine, both because of its natural assets and the character of its people, will continue to be a good place to work and to live, as well as the "Land of Remembered Vacations."
HORACE HILDRETH Governor of Maine Augusta, Me.
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Sir:
Thanks for the splendid cover story on Rebecca West [TIME, Dec. 8]. . . . However, I think you did the good lady an injustice by failing to mention her coverage of the mass lynch trials at Greenville, S.C., last spring. . . . Not only was her writing style superb, but as a reporter she dug up facts that none of the rest of us were able to uncover, angles that we of the deadline-plagued, spot-news journalism missed in passing.
I think dubbing her the "world's No. 1 woman writer" is faint praise. For my money, she's the best I've seen, man or woman.
JANE NOLAND
United Press Associations Columbia, S.C.
Sir:
How can you feature Rebecca West who has written so much trash! Nobody reads her junk—except those who think it fashionable due to the false publicity your magazine makes the public swallow.
HENRY BOWES Red Bank, NJ.
Sir:
Congratulations! . . . Let's have more feminine personalities.
EUGENE LA CINA Dodge, Neb.
Sir:
Orchids and huzzahs. . . . Here is reviewing raised to a brilliant level on a par with its brilliant subject. In fact, all of your cover articles . . . are, I think, model "profiles" which students of journalism as well as the lay reader should note as encyclopedic in content, human in approach, and definitive as history. . . .
DAVID D. THOMPSON Bethel, Me.
Erroneous Impression
Sir:
In the issue of TIME dated June 16, 1947, you referred to our client, Loelia, Duchess of Westminster as "recently divorced," thereby conveying the imputation that the Duchess, who had in fact been the petitioner in proceedings earlier in the year in which she was granted a decree of divorce against the Duke, had herself been the guilty party in the suit.
This, as you are no doubt aware, is not the case, and needless to say the implication has caused the Duchess considerable embarrassment.
In the circumstances, now that the matter has been brought to your attention we naturally assume that you will wish to correct the erroneous impression given by your article.
HARDMAN & Co. London
> TIME pleads guilty to the U.S. custom of applying the word divorced to both parties, regrets that its U.S. usage was misunderstood in England, assures the Duchess of Westminster that it had no intention of accusing her of having been the guilty party.—ED.