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JOHN D. RESSETOR Cleveland Sir: Your piece on the Eastern Orthodox Churches was expertly handled. At long last, proper credit was given to the Mother of Christianity. She has been denied recognition all these years. In spirit and in truth, Greek Orthodoxy is worlds apart from Roman Catholicity, as your article clearly points out.
THEODORE VRETTOS Peabody, Mass.
Wraysbury Weathers It Sir: Your June 28 article on Christine Keeler was to the point, but inaccurate in its description of Wraysbury as a "dingy town," though you may be forgiven for noting that some of our 700-year-old buildings have lost their first freshness! You see, for more than a thousand years Wraysbury has never been anything but a village.
We can claim other distinguished people and events too: King John signed the Magna Carta within the parish boundary, and King Henry VIII courted Second Wife Anne Boleyn in the yard of one of the Thames-side houses—that caused a rumpus too.
R. P. RIGG Wraysbury, England Sir: Lest anyone feel self-righteous about his country's morality status upon reading about Keeler & Co., let him ponder the moral issues contained in your cover story on civil rights, or the column on Tony Pro, or "Two Definitions of Obscenity" in the Press section [June 21].
JAMES N. WRIGHT Brasilia, Brazil Cool & Brassy
Sir: As a college-age jazz lover who was raised on Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Lionel Hampton and plenty of joyful foot tapping, and who right now has Pee Wee Russell and John Coltrane stacked on the same record changer, I feel that TIME has quietly scored a real triumph in its recent jazz reporting [June 28]. Congratulations on exposing the hippies and the pretensions of John Lewis, Paul Winter and the rest of the "concert jazz" set. NEIL STILLINGS Appleton, Wis.
Sir:
You have misunderstood my proposal for jazz in cultural exchange. "The Jazz Corps" was a suggested name for a foundation that would arrange privately sponsored tours. Our belief is that cultural exchange is one of the great hopes of the free world and that in this context jazz is a particularly effective medium.
PAUL WINTER New York City
Sir:
The article was great. But let's not listen to Winter. We should send money to needy countries, not jazz.
DOUG MCLEAN Montreal, Que.
Banks & Bankers
Sir:
The June 21 story on banking immediately opened by mentioning a savings and loan association and went on to state that a savings and loan association would dispatch a "bank officer."
This type of editorial comment disturbs us very much because savings and loan associations are not banks and their officers are not bankers. This is established by law, not by the commercial banking industry.
ROGERS R. WOODS JR. Executive Director Foundation for Commercial Banks Philadelphia
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