Royal Reading

Sir:

Your profile of Princess Margaret [TIME, June 13] read like a [movie] scenario . . . For the first time in many years of reading TIME, I suspect the veracity of your researchers. How in the world could you dig up such material on a royal personage?

Anyhow, it made good reading . . .

DOLORES E. KELLY

Jackson Heights, N.Y.

P: Let Reader Kelly swallow her doubts, remember that the truth often makes better reading than fiction.--ED.

Light Up and Relax

Sir:

. . . Dr. Clarence A. Mills's finger-shaking warning on the evils and dangers of smoking after an attack of coronary thrombosis [TIME, June 20] will frighten no one acquainted with the more recent scientific literature on the subject . . .

Dr. Robert L. Levy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, conducted extensive tests ... on the effects of cigarette smoking on the heart. At the 69th Annual Session of the American Medical Association on June 12, 1947, he said: "It has been our experience, over a period of years, that most patients with a cardiac disorder, including those with disease of the coronary arteries, can smoke moderately without apparent harm. In fact, for many, smoking not only affords pleasure but aids in promoting emotional stability . . ."

As for myself, with the permission of my doctor, I smoke about 30 Pall Malls a day, more than half of which smolder away in the ashtray as I work at my typewriter . , . Never felt better in the past 20 years.

CHARLES YALE HARRISON* New York City

Dealers' Defense

Sir:

In answer to Mr. Robert W. Miller's comment about the used-car dealers [TIME, June 13], I would like to inform him that there are many honest car dealers . . . [who] have refrained from taking money under the table and collecting bonuses.

The people themselves created this situation by paying these so-called stinkers. But Mr. Miller's belief that all dealers are alike borders on the ridiculous. Unfortunately, the innocent have to suffer with the guilty . . .

SUSANNAH B. HEINTZELMAN Dallas, Tex.

Death at Dartmouth

Sir:

Congratulations on your courageous article concerning the untimely death of Ray Cirrotta of Dartmouth as a result of a brutal beating at the hands of Tom Doxsee and his seven friends [TIME, June 13].

Surely, such a miscarriage of justice as occurred in the courtroom at Plymouth could not happen in America. Daily we read of such events in Communist countries where [murderers] go scot free because of their warped legal system . . .

GEORGE A. YORKIS

Indiana University

Bloomington, Ind.

Sir:

... In spite of the fact we live in the town where it happened, it took TIME to tell us that blows were actually struck--instead of the whitewashed propaganda handed out by the college to the effect it was just a schoolboy fracas over a sweater . . .

B. R. PORTER

Hanover, N.H.

Sir:

We speak of lynching Negroes in the back-wood areas of the South. This is considered a federal offense, and rightfully so. Is Dartmouth such an educational white tower that its activities are exempt from the full force of criminal law? . . .

EDWARD H. HALE, M.D.

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

. . . It appears that the price of lives is dropping. Is $500 the market value for a Dartmouth undergraduate?

W. A. MUELLER

University of California

Los Angeles, Calif.

I see it is no crime to kill a man in New Hampshire.

MRS. JAY DOANE

Austin, Minn.

*Author of Thank God for My Heart Attack (TIME, May 23).

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