Cohen & Corcoran

Sirs: For the less chemically-minded TIME readers, why not designate "Cohen & Corcoran"* (TIME, Sept. 12) as the "china-eggs" of the Administration, in that "they promote action without taking any part in it?" MRS. JAS. DEB. WALBOCH Hollins, Va.

Sirs:

The habit of uncritical adulation which began with the Frank Lloyd Wright piece [TIME. Jan. 17] seems to have gotten out of hand in your current blurb on Corcoran & Cohen. Please remember that what your customers expect from you is salt, with maybe a dash of vinegar: but never oil and never sugar.

C. BROOM Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

>For more news of Architect Wright see p. 44.--ED.

Sirs:

Although I disagree with Tom Corcoran's politics and policies, I do agree that he is and has been a remarkable and very capable young man. But that hut on Mt. Washington which Saturday Evening Post and TIME say he built "with his two hands"! About 1920 the Appalachian Mountain Club built an extension to their Lakes-of-the-Clouds hut on the side of Mt. Washington. . . . Tom was one of several who packed building material one and one-half miles down from the summit of the mountain--no easy task--and assisted in cooking for the mountain climbers who occupied the hut while the work was going on.

Here's a picture of Tommy the Cork at the time. The other young man also has a nick-name--"The Powder River Kid."* GEORGE A. RUST Boston, Mass.

Great Request

Sirs:

I have read the TIME some times. And now I have a great request for you. I were happy, if you do me the favor. I have learnt the English language a long time by textbooks. And now I might it businesslike apply and myself improve. I think, the best way is to correspond with an American. Therefore I beg you is there not a girl, about 14-18 years old she will correspond with me. Perhaps is one in your office or one of your employees has a daughter or relation. Please, do me favour. If you have found a girl, say her that she write to me at once.

I hope you understand me and I say you already now many thanks.

GERHARD PAETZOLD Hauptmann-Loepev Strasse 76 Neue-Schleuse, bei Rathenow, Germany

Kansas' McGill

Sirs:

To correct your record of Kansas' Senator George McGill:

McGill was elected in 1930 to fill the unexpired term of Senator Charles Curtis, who resigned to become vice president. McGill's unsuccessful opponent in that election was former Governor Henry J. Allen, who had been appointed to the Senate the year before. In 1932, McGill's opponent was not Allen but former Governor Ben S. Paulen, whom he defeated by 26,000 votes out of nearly 700,000 cast.

ARCH W. JARRELL

Daily Traveler Arkansas City, Kans.

Add Rooseveltiana

Sirs: An investigator in the deep South met an oldtimer and asked him a few questions: "Did you vote for President Roosevelt in 1932?" "Yes." "Did you vote for him in 1936?" "Yes." "If he is nominated in 1940 will you vote for him?" "Of course I will-- but let me tell you something, mister, if the damn Yankees up North don't quit voting the Democratic ticket they're going to ruin this country!" SCOTT SNODGRASS San Angelo, Tex.

Heil, Chamberlain!

Sirs:

Heil, Chamberlain! Most popular man in Nazidom !

H. B. CRISWELL II Ogden, Utah

Tempidity

Sirs:

. . . Consider: temperature 98DEG, humidity 34%, gives humiture 66. Now assume temperature 34DEG, humidity 98%, gives humiture 66. I hasten to assure you that "the man on the street" will in no wise feel the same. My best observations so far are: multiply the temperature by 5, add the humidity and divide the sum by 6 to obtain the tempidity. . . .

OLIVER HOLBROOK Lincoln, Neb.

Sirs:

. . . Why not quote temperature and humidity readings together, viz: if the temperature is 80DEG and the humidity is 75% then just put down 80:75 and call it, say, "tempahume" or anything else you can think of. . . .

H. M. ZEKIND Attorney at Law Cincinnati, Ohio

Sirs:

Let "Humiture" or "Thermidity" be a hyphenated number (Temperature-Humidity) such as 85-100, which will be perfectly clear and complete, yet short and simple. L. H. HART Philadelphia, Pa.

Sirs:

Instead of sockdolager "Effective Temperature " (TIME, Sept. 19, p. 6) try obvious, artificial, suggestive, crisp TEMPEFFECT. DWIGHT M. BECK Syracuse, N. Y.

Sirs:

Yes! "Comforture."

R. A. SCOTT

Verona, N. J.

Sirs:

. . . How about ''Compositure" or even "Compoture?"

CAROLINE P. MEANS Charleston, S. C.

Sirs:

. . . Air conditioning engineers would be delighted to find a concise compromise, but they insist that you do not deceptively oversimplify an essentially complex condition.

JOHN H. CARTER

Member, American Society of Heating & Ventilating Engineers Webster Groves, Mo.

Sirs:

Looking for a word to describe "Effective Temperature?" Here's one: "Humanature."

M. S. MILLER Lancaster, Pa.

Sirs:

H plus t over m equals Humorture. Maybe the experts can work out a better equation but I doubt they'll improve on the word. . . .

TOM UPTON Jackson Heights, N. Y.

Hawk-beaked

Sirs:

TIME Sept. 5 refers to David Lasser as "long-nosed" (p. 9), to Al Smith as "red of nose" (p. 11), and to Philadelphia's Coroner Charles Hersch as "scythe-nosed" (p. 12). Why should a newsmagazine such as TIME concern itself with descriptions of men's "schnozzles?"

RAYMOND KASS Philadelphia, Pa.

>TIME respects noses for news and news of noses.--ED.

President's Wife's Secretary

Sirs: Please answer, if you can or dare, one question. . . .

We grant you that Columnist Roosevelt is remarkable, but even more remarkable is the fact that she has her personal secretary, Mrs. Scheider, who is in the picture (TIME, Sept. 5), on the public's payroll. Not only that but just a few months ago Mrs. Scheider's salary was upped from $5,400 to the neat sum of $6,000 per annum.

The question--how does anyone explain the payment out of public funds for the keep of the secretary to the President's wife.

EDWARD FORTNER JR.

Scarsdale, N. Y.

>Like Mmes Coolidge and Hoover, Mrs. Roosevelt has a Government-paid secretary. The Government contributes $5,000 of her reported $6,000 salary.

Mrs. Roosevelt supplies the rest. But Secretary Scheider has received no recent raise. -- ED.

* "They call themselves catalysts."--ED.

*Real name: Harold E. ("Tex") Benton. non-chef at Appalachian Mountain Club's hut headquarters at Pinkham Notch, N. H.--ED.

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