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Three viktorias in as many lines—and I could quote you half a dozen poems more. If I had a dollar for every German girl whose name is Viktoria, or every German boy whose name is Viktor, I should comfortably afford to subscribe for FORTUNE. Ask Vicki Baum some time, if you don't believe me. . . .
KARL SCHAUERMANN Milwaukee, Wis.
Ageless Controversy
Sirs:
It is not the truth, as TIME states [July 14], that "Lee . . . expected Longstreet to advance at dawn" on July 2 at Gettysburg. . . .
All the criticism of General Longstreet's operations at Gettysburg has been based on the malicious charge by General Pendleton, after the death of Lee, that Longstreet was ordered to make an early or sunrise attack at Gettysburg [that day]. But Pendleton's own report, written about 60 days after the battle . . . states that Lee, Longstreet, himself and other officers were riding over the battlefront on the morning of July 2, "soon after sunrise," until "about midday . . . surveying the enemy's position . . . and the best mode of attack." . . .
HELEN DORTCH LONGSTREET Gettysburg, Pa.
— In recalling one of the most controversial episodes in one of the world's most controversial battles, TIME meant no smirch. Authorities who supported TIME'S position include Longstreet's own biographers, Eckenrode & Conrad, Lee's biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman, the Dictionary of American Biography. Whether the criticism of Longstreet is just or not, Longstreet at Gettysburg has been for years a classic U.S. symbol of the costliness of delay.—ED.
Pitcher, Size Unknown
Sirs:
Your reply to Mr. Howard J. Archibald's letter in TIME, Aug. 4, explains curtly, clearly and completely how your Moscow correspondent deduced that Stalin had a pitcher of tea before him when he spoke over the microphone, by hearing over the loudspeaker in Red Square the sound of a liquid being poured into a glass during a dramatic pause, but how did he know it was a "big" pitcher of tea ?
B. P. SCHULBERG Columbia Pictures Corp.
Hollywood, Calif.
>A palpable hit.—ED.