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Sir: It didn't surprise me to read in your article [Dec. 11] on Dr. William Brady and his asinine practices that he had cracked a vertebra while somersaulting. I did the same thing nine years ago in following his advice on turning somersaults.
I have had a pain in the neck ever since-and today I am half his age!
MARY C. BECKER Oceanside, Calif.
Sir: The National Newspaper Syndicate of Chicago is wasting its time and space keeping Dr. William Brady's old columns. Dr. Brady will probably never die.
DONALD J. GRAVOIS New Orleans
Earth Movers
Sir: The diagram on Mars Encounter in the Dec. 11 issue of TIME appears to be in error. Mars and the point of encounter with Mariner need to be shifted around 180°.
THOMAS W. NOONAN Instructor of Astronomy Physics Department University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C.
> After boning up on its Copernicus, TIME is happy to put Earth back in its proper place (see cut).
Only Atrocious?
Sir: We drove all the way from St. Louis to Chicago to see Ivan Albright's exhibition [Dec. 18]. The titles of his paintings show that he is a poet as well as an artist.
(Mrs.) DOROTHY JACOBY MAHON St. Louis
Sir: We are proud of our great city, and not only do we deny that Albright is "Chicago's painter laureate" but many of us detest his work. I personally was so sickened by his exhibit that if I had possessed a crayon at the time, I would have drawn a mustache on each ugly portrait. LAURA PUDELWITTS Chicago
Sir: It is not well-known that he also has a different style of painting in landscapes and seascapes, with no sign of people in them, decayed or otherwise. WARREN SNYDER Evanston, 111.
Southern Profiles
Sir: The example of justice that Commissioner Esther Carter portrayed in Mississippi [Dec. 18] would probably be enough to cause such early suffragettes as Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone to turn over in their graves. They fought to bring women into the forefront of world affairs with an image of virtue and integrity, which Carter tarnished in one brief moment.
MICHAEL J. HANIK Silver Spring, Md.
Sir: When I write a book entitled Profiles in Cowardice, Miss Esther Carter will be the subject of Chapter 1.
TIMOTHY JOHNSON Chicago
Sir: Why are small-town Southern sheriffs invariably fat, ugly, ignorant, and look like they smell bad?
RONN GINN Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Sir: The civil rights workers I've seen here in Georgia sure don't look like the clean-cut American kids that the national press pictures them as being. Why don't they teach them how to bathe and dress at Oberlin?
CARL R. CAUGHMAN Decatur, Ga.
Missing Label
Sir: You say [Nov. 28] that "For most of its 130-year history Wake Forest was known as 'North Carolina's best high school.' " We have yet to find a single case in which anyone has heard the phrase applied to Wake Forest College. I appreciate the complimentary things said in your article concerning the progress that we have made since 1950, but I do not want the record of this period to be highlighted against the background of an inaccurate statement concerning the previous period.