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ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT Pasadena, Calif. Neither Writer Roosevelt nor Employer Hearst will say how much more or less Writer Roosevelt is receiving than the reported weekly $200. -- ED. Straightened Murphy Sirs: "Publisher Murphy . . . straightened his spine by special exercises at the age of 48." (TIME, Sept. 4, p. 14.) No more stooped than 90 % of TIME readers. I have for years sought an exercise that would result in an erect carriage. Arrived at the ripe old age of 40, had thought it now too late to attempt it further. TIME's remark gives encouragement. Possibly just one of Wheat Man Murphy's exercises would be news. . . . Just another "cover-to-cover" reader. JOHN M. BEARD Delphos, Ohio TIME erred in attributing Frederick Murphy's former stoop to a spinal affliction. For years he "favored" several broken ribs by a forward-bending posture. His Minneapolis osteopath straightened him up by massaging the nerve centre in the small of the back, by directing Publisher Murphy to lie for a period each day flat on the floor with his hand under the small of his back. -- ED. Ed for Ep Sirs: Who is the Sculptor Edstein, who is mentioned in the limerick which heads the article on Gertrude Stein (Sept. 11, p. 57)? Was TIME, usually so meticulous in the accuracy of its details referring to famed Jacob Epstein? If so, a large demerit for wanton perversion of the facts. ALLEN WELLER Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Sirs:

"Ed's STATUES ARE PUNK . . ." I'm acquainted with Gert and with Ein And a great many others named Stein But this sculptor called Ed, Is he living or dead? Or did somebody garble a line? GODFREY HOPKINS New York City A child of error and perversity, Ed Stein was a non-existent character who appeared on Earth just long enough to make TIME, Sept. 11. p. 57, a horrid sight and, but for the intervention of the Blue Eagle, to cost several proofreaders and makeup editors their jobs. The Stein whose place he usurped in the limerick is, of course, Sculptor Jacob ("Ep") Epstein, creator of primordial monuments in London. -- ED. Dodges to Syndicate to Chrysler Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 4 under Business & Finance, you say, "James Cromwell persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the automobile company to Chrysler for $160,000,000." I think many of your readers will wonder that TIME should have forgotten that this spectacular purchase, which the same article refers to as the "biggest cash sale in Wall Street history" was made not by Chrysler but by Dillon, Read & Co., or by a syndicate which they headed, who then publicly marketed new Dodge Brothers securities which securities were among those more actively traded in on the New York Stock Exchange for several years before control passed to Chrysler. THOMAS D. SMITH Watch Hill, R. I. Bidding against Thomas Cochran of J. P. Morgan & Co., Clarence Dillon formed a syndicate of several hundred individuals and banks, bought Dodge from the Dodge heirs for $146,000,000, the largest cash transaction in Wall Street history. In 1928, three years later, having operated Dodge at a profit of $40,000,000, the Dillon, Read Syndicate sold Dodge to Chrysler for the equivalent of $170,000,000 in Chrysler stocks. -- ED. Piggish Kingfish Sirs: . . . TIME'S account of the Kingfish's washroom fiasco, not so clearly worded as most TIME articles, nevertheless left little room for doubt or imagination. It was both amusing and amazing to those of us who relied on newspapers for this information. No admirer of blatant Huey, still I feel that perhaps his conduct could be justified on physiological if not ethical reasons. Piggish Kingfish, he probably waded into his native element, the punch (beverage), over his depth with a sad result. . . . HARWOOD ALLEN Cameron, Wis. Sirs: Allow an ardent TIME reader to highly commend the article in the Sept. 11 issue, entitled "In a Washroom." Here's hoping such a publication of facts will help to muzzle forever "a United States Senator in his cups." MRS. D. C. JOHNSTON Rock Hill, S. C. Sirs: Many thanks for "In a Washroom,'' under Political Notes, p. 16, issue of Sept. 11. If the incident, the details of TIME so skilfully presents, opens the gate to that long-desired path through which Huey is to be permanently shunted into a one-way blind of alley, I shall accept it as convincing evidence of "Wonderous Ways." GEORGE B. LAUDER Sanbornton, N. H. To Mr. Rand & TIME Sirs: To able Mr. Rand and interesting TIME, praise. ''The March of TIME" brings to me the most exciting half-hour of radio entertainment so my radio set is getting an overhauling for October. I am sure all of TIME readers in this country will tune in every Friday, so incidentally Mr. Rand's Remingtons will get publicity on this side of the Rio Grande. . . . ALFONSO GOMEZ PALACIO JR. Central Airways of Mexico Durango, Dgo. Sirs: . . . Permit me to be among the first to thank and congratulate both TIME and Mr. Rand for bringing ''The March of TIME" back. . . . FRANK W. Simcoe Chicago, Ill. Sirs: The announcement that the "March of TIME'" is returning to the air in October is very welcome news. In my opinion it is the finest program of all. My congratulations to TIME and Remington Rand. H. B. STEEG Indianapolis, Ind. To President James Henry Rand Jr. of Remington Rand, whose sponsorship of "The March of TIME" begins Oct. 13. have come hundreds of congratulatory letters. Extracts: Let me congratulate you on your move in sponsoring the forthcoming "March of TIME" program. You are to be congratulated for your sense of public interest in making possible this highly popular program. I do not think it is exaggerating to say that millions of people in this country and in Canada will consider this act by you and your company an act of public benefaction. It is superfluous to add that your company will benefit by this program from an advertising standpoint. J. HOLMAN EAST St. Louis, Mo. ... I believe that your sponsoring of "The March of TIME" will prove another achievement of the list now to your credit, and I am sure that a vast radio audience will ever feel grateful to you and to TIME for the instructive pleasure in store for them. . . . CLARENCE A. BARNES Mexico, Mo. Kindly accept my thanks for again inaugurating "The March of TIME." I think this program deserves a place in our American history. If this program could be recorded and released many years from now, when the men and things we now take for granted will be history, it would give our posterity a wonderful insight of our present civilization. . . . H. O. BOLDUAN Maple Lake, Minn. ... I salute your acumen and endorse your judgment. . . . NATHAN BOONE WILLIAMS Washington, D. C. . . . Permit me as one of your stockholders to extend my congratulations on your selection, as in my opinion and in that of many of my friends, "The March of TIME" was, by long odds the outstanding feature on the radio. . . . J. M. FISHEL New York City Permit me to congratulate you and your company for bringing back to the public the wonderful drama of the air "The March of TIME.'' You certainly picked the STAR of all radio programs. . . .

JOSEPH P. ROUMAIN New York City . . . Your sponsoring this program is undoubtedly a public spirited enterprise. I trust it will prove profitable from a business standpoint. Irving M. ENGEL New York City May I join with the thousands of other admirers of "The March of TIME" in congratulating you on your vision and public spirit in agreeing to support this excellent program without censorship? I think that the future of radio in America -- from a qualitative point of view -- is rather intimately tied up with this very distinctive program. ALDEN B. MILLS Chicago, Ill. I congratulate you and your company on your farsightedness on tying up with the editors of TIME in returning to the air "The March of TIME," the ace program of radio. . . . . . This departure from the established policy of sponsored radio programs may be an advertising precedent and an experiment, but to the hosts of radio listeners it is welcome news. ... JAMES UPSHER SMITH Minneapolis, Minn. It is gratifying indeed to know that "The March of TIME" will go on the air again, and all because you are big enough to do things in your own way. BETTY CHAMBERS Mtincie, Ind. Rockefeller on the Radio Sirs: Under People in your Sept. 4 issue you erroneously report John D. Rockefeller Jr., speaking in behalf of NRA, as having made his first radio address. Mr. Rockefeller's first radio speech was delivered in Collier's Radio Hour on Feb. 12, 1928, his subject being "Character in Business." Such was the demand for reprints of this address that Collier's printed it in booklet form and sent out more than 50,000 copies to those who had voluntarily requested copies. CARL KULBERG Assistant to the President Collier's New York City "Evangeline" Department (Cont'd) Sirs: In re the matter of Mr. Douglas G. McPhee's Sept. 4 comment, may I say: In the heart of New York City, by the shining big sea water, . . . Not the poem "Hiawatha" gave the rhythm of that item Yes, I know Longfellow used it, but not so in "Hiawatha" Couched in "Hiawatha's" meter, this is how you'd read that statement Bottles bought they by the trainload, but the kegs they did not order HAROLD POPPE Forest Hills, N.Y.

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