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Sir: It's about time someone answered "the creative, fulfilled career women" who have helped plant the insidious seed of discontent in so many of our young wives and mothers.
SYLVIA MERLIN Merion, Pa.
Eccentric Roots
Sir: My God! To refer to Ludwig Wittgenstein as an "eccentric Cambridge professor" [Oct. 2] is like talking of Albert Einstein as an eccentric who believed that everything is relative. Wittgenstein's reputation among contemporary philosophers is comparable to Kant's, with practically all of modern linguistic analysis having its roots in the "eccentric."
ERNEST H. WALBERG JR. Santa Barbara, Calif.
Post Dated
Sir: TIME, Oct. 16: "the Saturday Evening Post borrowed much from the technique and styles of existing magazines, among them TIME." From my article on Pierre Salinger in the Post May 30: "Politics in California has outdone itself with sudden lurches, phosphorescent goblins, and things that go bump in the dark." From TIME'S article on Salinger Oct. 16: "[California's] political landscape is alive with sudden shadows, phosphorescent goblins, and things that go bump in the dark." I apologize to TIME for having stolen a vivid line from you—five months before you wrote it.
JIM PHELAN Saturday Evening Post New York City
— Touché! The goblins in our office were real.—ED.
Life After 45
Sir: What are you, Dr. Kistner—some kind of Miss Ogynist [Oct. 16]? Look around you sometimes at the many gorgeous grandmothers in and out of the soap ads and ask yourself, honestly, do they need a pill. You flatter yourself in your male ego and medical knowledge that a man and a pill are essential to a woman's golden years.
RITA BOSCIA
Tuckahoe, N.Y.
Sir: Dr. Kistner forgot to add that since men have their greatest capacity for procreation during adolescence, they can all be dispensed with before the age of 20.
(MRS.) LYNN BRAVO Flushing, N.Y.
Silenced Sportscaster
Sir: It may be true that Mel Allen was corny at times [Oct. 16], but his ability to generate excitement, lend color and flavor to the drabities that afflict baseball, is unmatched. With Mel Allen's voice no longer calling the action, these ears will no longer listen to Yankee broadcasts.
MOSES M. BERLIN
Brookline, Mass.