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On the current cover of TIME magazine my name appears, along with the titles of many of the shows I have produced. There is, however, a very strange drawing of some person or other also on the cover, which is very puzzling to me. Could you possibly have substituted, in error, next week's cover picture in place of mine? I consider this figure you have attached to my name monstrous in appearance, bearing no resemblance to my likeness, which appears on the inside in the body of my story--the one in which I am attired in my Ascot suit, the one I wore when I played the lead in My Fair Lady. Therefore, this is to notify you that I am suing you for $1,000,000 for defamation of caricature. DAVID MERRICK New York City
JULY 21, 1967
TIME owes it to its readers to name the anonymous Governor whom I allegedly told that "Dick Nixon is a loser." It will be especially interesting, since I have never said it or thought it. I am sorry that at a time when Republican leaders are working hard for party unity, TIME would stoop to quoting nameless sources in an effort to destroy that unity. RONALD REAGAN Governor Sacramento, Calif.
TIME's source is not at all "nameless," but we are bound to honor his request that he not be identified--a request with which Governor Reagan, as a political figure, can surely sympathize.
SEPT. 5, 1969
Re your comment in the Buckley-Vidal story: George Sanders didn't divorce me, I divorced him. ZSA ZSA GABOR Washington, D.C.
True enough. Sanders filed to divorce Zsa Zsa and she then cross-complained, whereupon the judge ruled "ladies first" and granted her an interlocutory decree on April 1, 1954.
JAN. 4, 1971
The children and I have always understood the significance of my husband's work and would have preferred to ignore Mr. Hoover's ungentlemanly attacks on my husband, but my husband is dead and cannot reply for himself. Moreover, his memory is too precious to us and to tens of millions of Americans, black and white, to permit unfounded slurs to remain unanswered. J. Edgar Hoover, in alleging that he called my husband a liar during their meeting in 1964, has exposed himself. There were witnesses present, three distinguished clergymen, who explicitly denied that Mr. Hoover made such a statement or any other attack on my husband's veracity to his face.
It is unfortunate for our country that a person of such moral and mental capacity holds a position of such importance. It is equally unfortunate for race relations that a person revealed in this interview to be so arrogantly prejudiced against Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and blacks is a high Government official. MRS. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Atlanta
JAN. 1, 1973
Whose voice gave Tarzan's call? I ought to know: I was there. Johnny Weissmuller can--and did--do his own Tarzan call. End of discussion? MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN ("JANE") New York City
APRIL 8, 1974
Harry Reasoner recently took TIME to task on ABC-TV for certain instances of its obsessional and below-the-belt reporting on Watergate, which he said had betrayed the canons of both objective and ethical journalism.