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Maybe down South and out West it is called the "Madison," but up in Harlem it is called "Mashed Potato."
DUNCAN B. BUTLER
Glen Rock, NJ.
Stockholder Report
Sir:
Re your March 14 article on the French aluminum and chemical company, Pechiney: this article summarizes in the most vivid way the activity of our company. However, I must point out an error regarding our activity in Cameroon. The aluminum plant belonging to the Compagnie Cam-erounaise de l'Aluminum Pechiney/Ugine is exclusively in the hands of French and Belgian shareholders [not shared with Olin-Mathieson]. On the other hand, Olin-Mathieson is an important shareholder of FRIA, which produces alumina from local bauxite in Guinea; other shareholders in the company, in addition to our French group, are English, German and Swiss producers.
R. DE VITRY
President
Pechiney
Paris
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The Thinking Man's Philter?
Sir:
Congratulations for your delightful cover story of tobacco [April 11]. I have never smoked in my life, though I have always liked him to "blow some my way" and, being of the full age of majority, pressed down and running over toward 90, I well remember the hideous fear with which many oldsters watched the younger generation (of which I was one back in the last century) eating tomatoes. (They were known as love apples and considered poisonous.) So, how about this song of an old tomato:
Hush little 'Baccy, don't you cry.
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now you soon may be—
The source of vitamins A to Z.
LOUISE HUBERT GUYOL
New Orleans
Sir:
Your cover was enough to make me want to give up smoking—sadistic symbolism at its finest!
LYNDA PECK
Washington, B.C.
Sir:
Your excellent article on tobacco stated that 36% of all women over 15 smoke. But apparently Cover Artist Artzybasheff was unaware of this, because not one of the burning cigarettes he drew had even the slightest trace of lipstick on it.
CHARLES KINGSTON
Evanston,Ill.