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The Lady Goes Home
Sir:
Re your story on the resignation of Clare Boothe Luce as ambassador to Italy [Dec. 3], the monarchist (but emphatically not fascist) press has indeed commented upon her departure. The monarchist magazine Candido, edited by Giovanni Guareschi (creator of The Little World of Don Camillo), said:
"Now that Mrs. Luce is about to leave us, we shall miss the grace, sweetness and firmness with which she fitted into the Italian scene . . . She is a lady of whom many Italians have become very fond . . . Everyone will be sorry to see her go, especially those irreconcilable supporters of the stronger sex who were not pleased with the idea of seeing an ambassador in skirts in our capital city. Mrs. Luce has shown herself to have the stature of her post. Only a few people, and even fewer diplomats, have understood the reality and the spirit of the Italian woman like this woman has, probably because she approached our country in the first instance with her heart. For her clarity and her honesty, we are grateful . . ."
WALTER GUZZARDI
Rome
¶TIME gladly reports the Candido opinion as evidence of the basic pro-American sentiments of Italian monarchists.—ED.
Tender Elvis
Sir:
Your Nov. 26 account of Elvis Presley and his new picture Love Me Tender is terrible. The things said about Elvis were very cruel.
KAY HARMON
Toulon, Ill.
Sir:
About your criticism of Love Me Tender. We Elvis fans would like to see your movie reviewer stuffed with ground glass.
MRS. MILDRED H. NETTS
Springfield, Ohio
Sir:
I am a ninth-grade student. I also am a fan of Presley's, but the way you described him in your review is really a kick. Every time I read it I go into fits of riotous laughter.
RON SPENCER
Compton, Calif.
Hot Dogs
Sir:
In "pre-Spanish times" where did the Mexican Indians get the bananas which, along with corn, they used to stuff their Xolo dogs and bring them to hoglike fatness [TIME, Nov. 26] ?
LOUIS O. WILLIAMS
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Sir:
It is very doubtful that the Xolos were stuffed with bananas in pre-Spanish times. The best authorities believe that the banana was introduced to this hemisphere after 1492. Yes, we had no bananas before Columbus discovered us.
ADALBERTO GORBITZ
Lima, Peru
¶ Yes. ED