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We are smiling through our tears, or vice versa, for in the Nov. 24 cinema review of I Want to Live, you say: "To judge from the . . . dragsville dialogue that Krylon-sprays the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems ... to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser." We are pleased indeed that "Krylon spray" is so well known that its name is used to describe a spraying process. But then we read on to a "cheap glaze," and we become unpleased in a hurry! Krylon is the producer of the world's finest spray coatings.
JAMES W. BAMPTON President Krylon, Inc. Norristown, Pa.
Sparkling San Fernando?
Sir:
TIME, Dec. 22, is wrong in treating lightly, whatever "London newsmen" may say, the matter of Spanish "champagne." The vital question of true and false indications of origin is involved, by implication the copyright and trademark laws, and the whole fabric of international agreements concerning labeling. Without these we would have commercial chaos: "English woolens" from Hackensack, "Scotch whisky" from Illinois, "French perfume" from Mexico, "Florida oranges" from Spain.
In the last 50 years much progress has been made. "Australian port," so labeled, may not be sold in Great Britain, nor may Spanish "champagne" be sold in Spain. We in America have eliminated all but a handful of these so-called generic names, and American vintners may no longer market, as in the bad old days, "Château d'Yquem" and "Château Margaux" from California.
We would do well to go along with most of the rest of the civilized world (Russia and the U.S. are now the main holdouts), abandon the rest of such foreign names and call our wines after the California valleys and New York State lakes from which they come, rather than after French villages (Chablis, Sauternes), German rivers and the like.
FRANK SCHOONMAKER New York City
As Friend to Friend
Sir:
Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago & North Western Railway, the "commuter's friend"? Phooey!! Between late trains, unheated cars and increased fares, all we need is another "friend" like Mr. Heineman and we'll have to move our offices to the suburbs.
BETTY GROSSE
T. T. BADURA
J. D. DONOVAN
Chicago
Sirs:
I am grateful to this railway. En route to Chicago, I can catch up with my reading. The morning of your Heineman story I read TIME cover to cover. We were only one hour and 40 minutes late.
IRVING E. MEYERHOFF Chicago
Sir:
After reading that I am the commuter's friend, some might well say, "May the Lord protect me from my friends, and I'll take care of my enemies myself!" Numerous delays and overcrowding, frustrating to our commuters and disappointing to us, accompanied a radical changeover to the present service and shorter schedules. These difficulties are temporary only, and TIME correctly reflected the North Western's belief that an outstandingly good commuter service can be provided on a self-supporting basis.
BEN W. HEINEMAN Chairman
Chicago & North Western Railway System Chicago
Monopoly in the Vatican
Sir: