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Sir: What next? A mandatory celibacy oath for all Government employees?
ANTHONY P. HERTZ
New York City
Backfire
Sir: Now that everyone knows all there is to know about the profit in the automobile business [April 29], are we going to be treated to revelations on other businesses? May I suggest that you tell us how to bargain with the druggist the next time we need a prescription? When is the best time to approach an attorney for his lowest fee? When does one get the best bargain from his family doctor on the next baby or an emergency operation? Better yet, perhaps a breakdown on the publishing business is in order.
JOHN W. WAGNER Wagner Auto Co. Grangeville, Idaho
Another Early Bird
Sir: Reading about the retirement of Airline Pioneer Patterson [May 6], I was amazed that you believe only two pioneers remain active. Without downgrading Trippe and Smith, how about Collett Everman Woolman, who at 76 is still sole boss of Delta Airlines, seventh-largest airline in the world? Woolman pioneered crop dusting in 1925 and inaugurated the first mail-passenger airline on the West Coast of South America in 1928 (this line became Panagra). President of Delta since its founding in 1929, Woolman takes second place to no one for continued, consistent airline management, and he is not about to retire.
WAYNE W. PARRISH, President American Aviation Publications Washington, D.C.
Question of Ethics
Sir: The heart surgery performed by Dr. DeBakey et al. [April 29] was interesting and exciting. However, I believe that the play-by-play news releases went beyond the limits of medical ethics by violating the physician's obligation to keep his patient's problems and therapy to himself. Such experimental medical procedures, though a necessary part of medical advancement, should not be displayed to the public like a baseball game; the dignity of the patient and his family is too important to permit that.
MICHAEL TREISTER
Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis
Frost In Monaco
Sir: I have been deeply hurt by your inaccuracies regarding the meeting in Seville between Mrs. Kennedy and myself at the Red Cross Ball [April 29]. What you call my frostiness and pique was directed at some of the hundreds of photographers who spoiled the evening for many of us, and certainly not at Mrs. Kennedy, for whom I have admiration and respect. And let me add in refute to your snide and unnecessary remarks that I am delighted to be "upstaged" by Mrs. Kennedy at any time.
GRACE KELLY GRIMALDI
Monaco
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