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In the offices of TIME'S Letters department there is a spot known as the "Poet's Corner." Thousands of people every year find occasion and reason to write letters to TIME. A good many of these writers feel the urge to frame their inspired praise or protest in verse form. When such a verse letter comes in, the "Poet's Corner" replies in kind. The reply is usually written by Gwyneth Kahn, one of the eight writers in the Letters department, who quickly shifts from her normal prose technique to verse form on these occasions.

I recently saw some of these verse exchanges and thought you might like to read a few samples. For some reason TIME'S story of the Kinsey Report produced a quantity of poems, several on Artist Artzybasheff's cover portrait of Dr. Kinsey. The theme: the doctor's bow tie sprinkled with the Mirror of Venus symbols, the biologist's sign of female. The writers wanted to know where such ties could be bought. The reply they received:

Though the female of the genus ( To say nothing of the male) Liked the geometric Venus, Kinsey's tie is not for sale.

Neither Macy's, Saks nor Gimbels Has a single bow in stock For the Artzybasheff symbols Are exclusive for the Doc.

Artist Artzybasheff's cover of Allen Dulles (TIME, Aug. 3) started another flow of verse when Reader Bertram H. Brown of Greensborp, N.C. complained of the detailed attention paid to Dulles' hair and received this answer from the Poet's Corner:

Michelangelo, Murillo, Tintoretto, Greuze, Utrillo, Renoir, Fragonard, Matisse, And the Brueghels, pere et fils, Monet, Manet, Turner, Giotto, Dufy, Degas, Titian, Watteau, From Da Vinci to The Greek Each one had his own technique. Artzy's trademark is his flair For the isolated hair.

Promptly from Mr. Bertram Brown came this reply: I don't care about Murillo And Da Vinci leaves me cold; I don't go for Dufy's paintings Done in timid strokes or bold --// Giotto was neurotic, If Utrillo was too meek, I remain quite unaffected As to each of them's technique.

But I do go for your Artzy And I think he's quite a guy; His stuff has vim and vigor Which with impact hits the eye.

So I hate to see him fumble When he does that crazy hair Looking like so much spaghetti.

Can't he find some other flair? After a TIME story mentioning the caloric content of modern bread, Reader R. C. Dewey of Arcadia, Calif.

wrote a long poem bemoaning today's loaves of "processed fluff." TIME'S Gwyneth Kahn answered: "In many ways the good old days aren't what they used to be. One can well mourn: A book of Kinsey underneath the bough, A jug of noncaloric coke, and thou Beside me, slicing loaves of processed fluff --Alas ! This is not Paradise enough.

To the many readers who commented on the brute ugliness of Rumania's Communist Boss Ana Pauker after the cover story came this reminder: Ana Pauker has no glamor But it's very often said That her sickle and her hammer Make a fellow lose his head.

Gwyneth Kahn, who came to TIME in 1945, is a specialist in answering let ters about National Affairs stories, and is a spare-time fiction writer. Before the U.S. entered World War II, she lived for a few years in London, where she wrote and sold fiction and poetry.

Later, en route to the Pacific with the American Red Cross, she did a mono logue in verse called Lousy with Colonels which, she says, practically got her thrown off the ship. Though it was never published, she adds, it enjoyed good circulation in the South Pacific from majors down.

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