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Sir: I paused long enough in picking up our town to admire Streisand's omphalos.
JOHN N. PEIRCE
Army Corps of Engineers
Anchorage, Alaska
Sir: Barbra Streisand is said to lose her cool when she sings. That's typical—a lot of us lose our cool when she sings. The article was terrific, the cover painting a bit startling, but appropriately so.
J. J. SWEARINGEN
Stillwater, Okla.
Rebel Invader
Sir: How can anyone who calls himself a Christian and an American vote for a man like George C. Wallace [April 17]? How can a state that put John F. Kennedy in the White House in 1960 turn around and give a significant vote to a racist like Governor Wallace in 1964? All I can say is, heaven help this country if all the states have the same attitude as Wisconsin.
ROBERT DURBIN
Baltimore
Sir: It must be admitted that Governor Wallace made his point in the truly American way—with dignity and good manners, via the ballot.
If others did the same, lives would be spared, riots eliminated, and good fellowship would prevail.
WM. J. WATSON
Detroit
Sir: Few outside Wisconsin recognize the significance of the large vote for Governor Wallace in our recent presidential primary. The majority of Wisconsin voters now consider our Governor Reynolds to be a hapless incompetent who should never have been elected in the first place. He has carved out a record so bad that Republican and independent voters would rather cast their ballot for a bigot than a boob. The fact that Reynolds got a large vote—completely out of proportion to his popularity—is to the credit of Wisconsin's voters.
RICHARD W. LUTZ
Oconomowoc, Wis.
Sir: I would like to say that I am sure that most of Wisconsin's Republican crossovers are not against civil rights. I feel that the majority cast their votes against a very ineffectual Governor, and some wished their sentiments to be heard even higher up.
BONNIE SELMER
Cornell, Wis.
Meaty Subject
Sir: Regarding the proposed investigation of beef prices [April 10], I say on behalf of the women of America: it's about time!
We're the best-fed country in the world —and boy, do we pay for it.
(MRS.) NITA B. ALLEN
Henrietta, N.Y.
Variable Confessions
Sir: David Ogilvy did not find advertising columnists so odious in his recent book, Confessions of an Advertising Man, as he did in your article—"They are a perfect total pain in the bum . . ." [April 17].
He wrote: "First I invited ten reporters from the advertising trade press to luncheon. I told them of my insane ambition to build a major agency from scratch. From that point on, they gave me priceless tips on new business and printed every release I sent them, however trivial, bless them."
The trade press, of course, is substantially the daily ad columnists. We break most of the big news. And we are followed more closely and with more interest than TIME indicates.
JACK O'DWYER
Advertising Columnist
New York Journal-American
New York City
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