"The March of Time"

Sirs: Congratulations on the best radio program I have heard over the air in--well, as a matter of fact, the best I have ever heard. We stayed up to hear it, and we almost wept over the World-Telegram dramatization. Whatever advertising agency is doing it for you deserves a great hurrah! JOHN FARRAR

New York City

"The March of Time" is prepared by staff members of TIME, Inc., directed by Arthur Pryor Jr. of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne.--ED. Sirs:

CONSIDER YOUR BROADCAST LAST NIGHT VERY FINE AND ENJOYABLE

DAN R. WINTER

Chicago, Ill.

Sirs: I listened to your radio show last night with much interest. I was unable to pick it up on KOIL and then I finally located it on station WBBM, Chicago Daily Times. It had been going about five minutes so I missed the introductory part. I thought you leaned over backwards to avoid direct advertising and could really do more of it effectively. I thought the program was well staged and I enjoyed it all myself. JOHN COWLES Associate Publisher Register & Tribune Des Moines, Iowa Sirs: Congratulations. ... I enjoyed the performance tremendously. I thought it very well presented. It sparkled and sizzled with dramatic interest--particularly that section of your broadcast devoted to the story of the sale of the New York World. When this story was first announced I was a bit dubious that any radio presentation could portray the news of the day in a fashion as interesting, alive and fascinating as you handled these matters in the columns of TIME. But I see that once again you have succeeded in tack- ling a difficult task and making it register with a thud. Once again--congratulations! R. H. RlEMENSCHNEIDER Advertising Manager Walgreen Drug Stores Chicago, Ill.

Sirs: I am indebted to you for calling my attention to the first performance of "The March of Time." It was a very unusual broadcast, perfectly "staged," and intensely interesting. T. F. DRISCOLL

Armour and Co. Chicago, Ill.

Sirs:

... I tuned in just at the moment William H. (Big Bill) Thompson, Chicago's mayor and Republican re-nominee, was talking long-distance to and receiving congratulations from Gov.-Sen. Doc. Huey P. (Pierce, Pearce, Parham or Polycarpe) Long. There followed long-distance back-slapping with "Jimmy" and "William Randolph" and by this time I surmised that all charges on these calls had been reversed--as the telephone operator would say.

There followed orchestra music and through this background the announcer said something about the "March of Time." This gave me a suspicion and hope that it was a TIME program, although I did not know that TIME was on the air. With the presentation of the dramatic episodes in court and city-room at the sale of the New York World I became more and more convinced that here was a program which would do credit to TIME even if it were not TIME'S own reportorial effort.

My copy of TIME had arrived in the mail that very afternoon and at the moment was lying on the end-table adjacent to the radio. To prove to myself, before the announcer told me, whether or not it was or was not TIME'S program, I took it up and turned rapidly to The Press. There, sure enough, was TIME'S story of "World's End." By this time Carol of Rumania was delivering his princely ultimatum to his Bucharest police chief. Under Foreign News I quickly found this item. Sure now that it was "TIME on the air" I settled back to enjoy every moment of the remaining period of broadcast. At its conclusion my first impulse was to read "World's End" for myself, immediately. But ten o'clock is Amos n' Andy time for me--15 minutes later I was reading your obituary of the late great World. Never have I been so interested in a TIME story before. Having been at one time a news reporter myself and still being closely connected with that fraternity it was perhaps a doubly dramatic story to me as it must have been to many newspaper men. It was easy to see that TIME'S editors placed it in the category of being almost top news of the week because of the space given to and journalistic reverence with which the series of events was handled. And so, from now on I am going to enjoy the "March of Time" just as much as TIME itself. Other "cover-to-cover" readers had best listen in too.

LUTHER WILLIAMS Editor

The Diamond Tulsa, Okla.

Ingalls' Pipe

Sirs:

We have been brought up to think of men of the sea having bulldog visages. But tell us, are sailor-flyers alligator jawed?

Do equestriennes put the correct stamp of approval on long, heavy straight stemmed tar-boilers as necessary impedimenta for an enjoy- able gallop? Does the Hon. Assistant Secretary of the Navy light-up before he lights-out to follow the hounds?

Honest now, does he?

G. W. STEBBONS

Williamson, N. Y.

As pictured on TIME'S cover, ahorse and pipe-smoking, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics Ingalls was not about to follow hounds. He was just posing for his picture.--ED. Tuft & Rosenwald

Sirs: Names make news. Last month at a lecture in Evanston LORADO TAFT remarked in the course of the lecture upon the fact that he had been jexpecting the use of the old Field Museum, in Jackson Park, here, left from the old World's Fair, for his "dream museum"--plaster casts of great sculpture arranged chronologically, well lighted. JULIUS ROSENWALD is going to establish his industrial museum there, however. In closing, Mr. Taft said in a reverent tone, "The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of Julius Rosenwald." Has TIME heard of this incident?

W. TUCKER DEAN JR.

Chicago, Ill.

TIME had not heard. To Reader Dean Jr. all thanks and praise for a TIME- worthy report.--ED. The Chandor Hoover

Sirs:

. . . Douglas Chandor's HOOVER is full of the character and force of the chief executive (TIME, March 2). TIME is to be commended; the artist, lauded; the President, glorified.

C. J. Loos

Minneapolis, Minn.

Sirs:

I wish to thank TIME for the fine colored picture of President Hoover. I have it up where everyone that comes to my home can tell who I stand for.

MRS. L. A. MOORE

St. Paul, Minn.

Sirs:

President Hoover's portrait in colors in TIME for March 2 is no doubt a fine likeness, well done, though I might be better able to judge the matter if I had ever met my "Chief." I do not claim or desire any distinction because some people believe that they see a resemblance to the President in my bulky form and ample face. But now that TIME has published this fine portrait, offers to sell additional thereof for ten cents "(to cover cost of mailing)", I may pardonably be keenly interested. There occurs to me, and perchance to numerous other regular readers, of TIME, a serious question regarding this portrait. On this assumption you will be able to settle a great question if you will publish in TIME whether or not the portrait for framing is printed exactly as is the one presented in the magazine. By this I mean particularly if the back of the President's picture will bear in silver, blue, black, and gold, a full-page legend to the effect that "Goodyear" is the leading make of tire.

OTTO FAUST Antler, N. Dak. The copies for sale are backed by no printed matter.--ED.

Jesus' Sibs

Sirs:

. . . Mrs. Sanger remarked that "Jesus Christ, was said to be an only child." (TIME, Feb. 23.) By referring to a footnote in which a scriptural quotation is given from Saint Mark, the editor implies that the above statement is erroneous. The quotation is: "Is not this the carpenter, the Son of Mary, the Brother of James, and Joses and of Juda and Simon . . . ?"

To any person familiar with Jewish customs at that time, it would be known that it was common to call any relation, especially cousins, as "brother." That James and Joses (John) were not the brothers of Jesus is clear from other passages in scripture, where they are explicitly called the sons of Alpheus, also called Cleophas, and Mary: not the Virgin Mary, who was the mother of Jesus, but a sister or a cousin to the Virgin Mary. Hence it is that James and Joses were only the cousins of Jesus and if this meaning is held for two of the parties, the same must be construed for Juda and Simon. Thus with a knowledge of the meaning of the quotation, it can scarcely be used to support your contention that the remark was "UN-LEARNED." . . .

This letter is not written to support Mrs.

Sanger's theory on Birth Control: as a trap Christian [I] could never sanction it. ... EDWARD P. LILLY

Holy Cross College (Jesuit)

Worcester, Mass.

TIME acknowledges its theological inefficiency in an ancient controversy, apologies to Mrs. Sanger. Scriptural evidence concerning the Holy Family is scant. Roman Catholics believe that Jesus was a unique child, that Luke's report ''She brought forth her first-born son." "does not prove at all that Mary had other children." Other exegetes reason that Joseph had several children, although Mary but one. Most Bible readers take the Book literally, see no derogation to Jesus in his having brothers and sisters as well as other sibs (blood relations).--ED. Hollandish Opening

Sirs:

For the benefit of those of your chess-addict readers who are tyros and not tycoons will you please give the moves of the "curious plan called the 'Hollandish' opening," used by Capa (TIME, Feb. 23) and the best answers to the opening?

DONALD E. V. HENDERSON

Marshall, Tex.

The "Hollandish" or "Bird's Opening" is distinguished by moving king's bishop's pawn two spaces on the first move, followed by fianchettoing queen's bishop, the development of king's knight, king's pawn at king three and king's bishop at king two and king side-castling. The usual defensive formation of queen's pawn at queen four is very similar to that of black in all of queen's pawn openings: pawn at king four and pawn at king three, knight king bishop three, bishop king two or king three, king side-castling, queen knight at queen two, pawn at queen bishop four, queen bishop two.--ED. Spine-Crawling Hate

Sirs: Whenever I run across a copy of TIME I am filled with a spine-crawling hate because of the smart-alec way in which you try to present things. The March 2 number found its way into the house and my irritation reached a climax when I came upon the drawing of Guy Maier and Lee Pattison. Your artist has wrongly labelled the men--and it is obviously not a misprint. Maier, whom you describe as the showman, swaying over the keyboard, has been drawn in just such a position only he has been given the face and figure of Pattison--while Mr. Pattison, quieter and "focused on his piano," has the contour of Mr. Maier. Maybe the whole picture is a misprint! ELIZABETH WOOD

Baltimore, Md.

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