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WILLIAM H. WORRILOW JR.
Lebanon, Pa.
Sir:
Let me commend your organization for the fine examples of the "sophisticated smear" technique, which you are so ably employing against the Democratic candidate, his family, friends, and hair.
JOAN B. STOUGH
Houston
Sir:
It seems clear, unfortunately, where you stand in the coming election. No wonder Mr. Kennedy is well pleased with the attention given him by the press.
WILBURT R. WALTERS Wyncote, Pa.
Hold the Fort, Mort
Sir:
Congratulations on the Mort Sahl story. It's the cheeriest sketch since Mort Darthur.
PAMELA SCOTT
Fresno, Calif.
Sir:
This "Herblock of the Bistros" is no successor to such satirists as Fred Allen, Sid Caesar, W. C. Fields or Will Rogers. "Back to the Borscht Belt" with Sahl and his egghead liberal left pseudo-comedy, actually witty political propaganda vended by a wiseacre.
D. F. BARRY
Brooklyn
Sir:
The idea that Mort Sahl's man-slam humor is really a helpful "implied positivism" is pretty humorous in itself.
It's a little like a man who slips a knife in your side and then says, "Don't take it too badly. There's an outside chance you've got appendicitis."
ROBERT J. TULP Brooklyn
The Loverly Ladies
Sir:
How dare you, sir, suggest—in fact, state —that until 1950 each and every British girl, unless she was born to the aristocracy, was dull, dowdy, poor complexioned, wore cotton stockings and shapeless dresses, and had poor teeth.
I don't wish to be catty, but this side of the pond, too, has its share of dreary-type women.
(MRS.) MURIEL GRIFFIN
Regina, Sask.
Sir:
Re your picture of Charles II's mistress, Nell Gwynn, you boys can't even tell Nell from Louise de Kèroualle.
H. MEWHINNEY
Houston
¶Reader Mewhinney is not the first to confuse Nell with Louise, who served as the King's Catholic mistress. When an anti-Catholic mob in Oxford mistook Nell for her unpopular rival, the plain-speaking actress stuck her head out the carriage window and said, "Pray, good people, be civil; I am the Protestant whore."—ED.
Che & K
Sir:
Thanks for your cover-picture showing Mr. K., Mao Tse-tung and Cuban Communist Che Guevara. It makes us literally feel their venomous breaths over our shoulder.
LON HEALY
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Sir:
Your fine article on Che Guevara of Cuba was illuminating, and frightening for the future of our nation.
MILTON M. STEIN
Brooklyn
Sir:
What a disgrace to the medical profession! Instead of devoting his time and skill to the alleviation of human suffering, Che Guevara chooses to dedicate himself to the destruction of men's souls.
NAN RUSSELL
Fern Park, Fla.
Operation
Sir:
In your review of my book The Operators and me, you dismissed as "possibly legendary" the story of the California man who put his amatory activity down as a medical income tax deduction.