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Maria Luisa Correa Larrain 30 The Robles Entry 23 Olivia Bunster Saavedra 19 Sylvia Gonzalez Rodriguez Elinor Poudensan Vasquez a dead heat, 14 each
The polls have just closed, and I have just now counted the ballots. Yet, even as I write this, I am beset by loud cries of foul play. The biggest beef (from the losers) is that the smallness of the pictures, plus the loss of detail inevitable in lithographic reproduction, has shown the winner to ad vantage, the losers to disadvantage.
In short, how in hell can I get the original glossies to satisfy this bunch of minesweeping extroverts once & for all?
D. N. LOTT Lieut. Commander U.S.S. Clamour c/o F.P.O. San Francisco
¶ To silence the Clamour's clamor, glossy prints are on the way to Lott's lot.—ED.
It Didn't Work
Sirs:
I read the article about not having to wipe dishes in TIME, June 19. [Doctors recommend rinsing in 170° water.] I am eleven years old and have to dry dishes. The story didn't work on my mother so I still have to wipe them. I wish you would write something a little more stern.
JULIE POIROT Golden City, Mo.
Independent Clement
Sirs:
TIME (May 22) says: "The Pennsylvania Railroad Co.'s tart-tongued president, Martin Withington Clement, was once asked by the Interstate Commerce Commission why he let Manhattan's Kuhn, Loeb & Co. underwrite a Pennsy bond issue. Snapped he: 'I deal with whom I please.' "
No member of the ICC ever asked Mr. Clement why the Pennsylvania Railroad let Kuhn, Loeb & Co. underwrite a Pennsylvania Railroad bond issue. To an insinuation by an attorney for Halsey, Stuart & Co. that the Pennsylvania R.R. was dominated by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Mr. Clement replied that he, and of course speaking for the Pennsylvania Railroad, dealt with whom they pleased.
You can readily see, therefore, that TIME'S article put an entirely erroneous light on the situation.
T. J. Ross
New York City
Finland's "War" Debt
Sirs:
TIME (June 26) says that Finnish Minister Procope "represented the one country that continued to pay back its World War I debt to the U.S." Surely you must know that Finland never had any such debt to pay back.
H. F. BEAVEN Ottawa, Ont.
¶ Technically true. But many so-called "war" debts were created after World War I. Finland, a noncombatant, paid $9,000,000 cash for U.S. food delivered in 1919. When the U.S. later extended credit to other needy nations, the credit was made retroactive for Finland and the $9,000,000 was returned. (Finland still owes $8,567,490.43. Her famed payments have disposed of little more than the loan's interest.)