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What I consider more important than the new record is the significant fact that this was the first distance soaring flight in America made from winch tow in level country. . . .
LEWIN B. BARRINGER Wichita Falls, Tex.
Freud
Sirs: The comments on Sigmund Freud (TIME, May 23) could hardly have been made by an ordinary book reviewer, because a tricky and greatly misquoted theory was handled quite truthfully. I usually expect to hear some crackpot sound off with the squirrel cage statement that all Freud's dream translations and all Freud's theories are sex.
Tell me—does one man write all the reviews, or does TIME "farm out" such technical subjects as Freud?
Since you seem to know the answer: What has happened to Freud the great Jew—his family ? . . .
M. M. MCTEER JR. St. Louis, Mo.
1) TIME has two book reviewers, who sometimes get expert advice, never farm out reviews.
2) Eighty-two -year -old Sigmund Freud and his family last week were allowed to leave Vienna, went to London. He was permitted to take his library with him, had to abandon his other properties including his publishing house. According to the London Daily Herald, Sigmund Freud was held in Vienna until wealthy friends paid a ransom for his release. In London, in the furnished house in Chelsea his son Ernst has rented for him, Freud will pick up his interrupted labors—at present a psychoanalysis of the Bible.—ED.
Dictated History?
Sirs: Having spent some time in studying American history, I am enclosing a few statements on a current situation which has caused some comment.
My conclusion after making my study is that since 1860 American history has been written at the dictation of a victorious sectional Republican party, which as Mr. Denis W. Brogan says in his Government of the People, has never been a National party, either in theory or fact.
Not only has this party dictated the writing of this history, but it has dictated the rewriting of American history prior to 1860 so as to make a grandstand entrance for Abraham Lincoln as first President. . . .
M. D. BOLAND
Tacoma, Wash.
Colored Montague
Sirs: In TIME, May 9, under Science I note that you state that with a new streamlined driver ... "A golfer like Jimmy Thomson using the streamlined club should attain a carry of 275 yards."
We agree that this is an unusual feat. However, it is not necessary to wait for a new club to be designed to see this feat accomplished. We have in our employ at the present time, a colored boy from Bradenton, Fla. We, and all others who have seen him play consider him to be the colored Montague.
At the Norwich Country Club Hast month], before a gallery including Mr. Gun-shanon, the pro, this boy drove a 327 yard hole entirely in the air to land on the green five feet past the pin. This feat he accomplished two out of three trys. The longest drive I have seen him make is 375 yards of which 340 was in the air. . . .
His name is J. C. (for nothing) Hamilton. We predict that much more will be heard of him in the very near future.
LOUIS LAVITT The Rockville Grain & Coal Co. Rockville, Conn.
Full-Blooded Americans