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Sir: I feel that everyone must hear the liberal and conservative side to every issue in order to have a sound basis upon which to form an opinion. However, your article concerning the Goldmark case [Jan. 31] was just a little too liberal for even me to stand. You are in essence saying that to call a political candidate a Communist or a Communist sympathizer in print is libel. How ridiculous can you get?
(MRS.) SANDRA K. LITTERAL Carmel, Ind.
> The fact is that it's libelous to call anyone a Communist unless he is one.—ED.
In Idol
Sir: That was a fine article on Humphrey Bogart [Feb. 7], one of America's greatest actors. Never has the idolatory of such a cult been so deservedly bestowed. The uncommon good sense of the Harvards is very encouraging.
JOHN S. FORD Yale University New Haven, Conn.
Sir: We think that the somewhat feverish Bogey revival now being enjoyed by the Harvard-Radcliffe sect should be placed in its more proper perspective. Bogey has been a byword at Bryn Mawr for years. Bogart Week on the Late Show has always drawn capacity crowds in the TV rooms here, and yet our appreciation is not confined to faddist imitations.
SUSAN DEUPREE, '64 Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Sir: So what else is new? The Circle Theatre in Washington, D.C., has run several Humphrey Bogart film festivals in the past five years. There are those of us in this provincial capital who were looking at 'em, kid, long before Our Hero was discovered by the Harvard Yard.
JANET C. JACEWICZ Arlington, Va.
Sir: I am appalled at the ability of 'Cliffe dwellers to take such fare seriously. Let Radcliffe girls return to their theses on Algerian Urbanization and Old French Literature and save their energy for civil rights demonstrations, Peace Corps recruitment, identity crises, and other activities more worthy of their breed.
PETER A. REICH (M.I.T. '62)
University of Michigan Graduate School Ann Arbor, Mich.
Sir: You say it's worth a few points among Harvard's Bogart-film lovers to know that Dooley Wilson played the piano player in Casablanca. Is there a bonus for knowing that Dooley Wilson couldn't really play?
TOM PRINGLE San Francisco
> Well, in a way. Dooley could play, but didn't in Casablanca. The ghost player was Elliott Carpenter.—ED.
Sir: Apparently your writer has surpassed Harvard's adulating Bogartophiles by crediting him with that classic line, "I don't have to show you no stinking badge." It was actually spoken by Alfonso Bedoya, Bogart's assassin in Treasure of Sierra Madre.
YVONNE LEWIS Baton Rouge, La. >TIME forfeits these points.—ED.
Ghost No More
Sir: TIME can be very timely at times. Not two days previous to receiving the Feb. 7 issue, I searched the back of my An Affair to Remember album in vain for information on the fascinatingly beautiful voice listed only as "soprano—Marnie Nixon." The big question then became "Who is Marnie Nixon?" Thank you for not letting such a voice go unsung!
MRS. WILLIAM B. GLENN JR. Morgantown, W. Va.
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