Thoroughly enjoyed Vol. 1, No. 1. It's a sure winner. Then, too, thanks for the 35¢ price.
Don K. Knight
Dallas, Texas
Just picked up my first copy of PEOPLE and all I can say is WOW! I literally could not put it down once I started reading. My daughter almost missed the school bus on account of it.
Grace Weyrauch
Lake Geneva, Wis.
The first issue was great! There was an article that made me laugh, a couple that made me cry, and all made me glad I had invested the 35¢.
Ms. D.J. Broberg
Meadville, Pa.
I bought the first issue of PEOPLE eagerly anticipating fun, gossipy, interesting entertainment. Instead I seem to have bought a complete dud. Was my copy defective?
R.W. Dana
New York, N.Y.
Congratulations on a super magazine!
Your idea is right on—the book is easy to read, full of pix, and loaded with bits and pieces of interest for all kinds. (I'd always wondered what Scottie Fitzgerald looked like.)
L.A. Collins
Toronto, Ontario
Last week I purchased the first issue of PEOPLE. What a disappointment and a waste of 35¢.
This magazine should have been entitled "Pictures."
Dariel A. Eklund
Chicago, Ill.
Your magazine is all of what you said it would be and more. A unique style and sensitivity is displayed in your efforts to present modern lives and living as it truly is. My commendation to you on a job well done. Please continue this stimulating enterprise.
Thomas P. Foy
Burlington, N.J.
I feel almost a fool using a 10¢ stamp to tell you I've already wasted 35¢ on PEOPLE.
The English course I teach tries to evaluate the worth of current magazines. I'll have to include your contribution in the same category with those infamous TV and movie magazines.
Why did you do it?
Sheila Walsh
Lowell, Mass.
Palm Beach
I think your magazine has great potential and it is time that the people got a magazine with some life in it.
I do think Sheilah Graham's article on Palm Beach does not at all give the true picture. She has not been here long enough to know the people, or to know the good that is done by the people who live here for charity and worthwhile projects.
James H. Kimberly
Palm Beach, Fla.
As an ex-VISTA volunteer, I can tell you your article on Palm Beach dramatized the problem that we faced working in the area. To the nine of us serving our year there, it was always a shock to drive approximately five minutes from the center of wealth, Palm Beach, to some of the most deplorable living conditions imaginable. It is too bad that some of these people who have the time to plan and attend "seven parties in a single day" do not have time to take a look at their "neighbors" and to direct their energies into something where they could actually see results of their efforts.
Linda Schenker
Palm Beach, Fla.
M.I.A. Families
Many thanks for your fine article on Ann Hart and Jo Christiano, the M.I.A. wives. Their courage and their dignity should be an inspiration to all Americans.
I do, however, feel your cover title is misleading. It is not that the Vietnam M.I.A. wives are "demanding answers that nobody has."
We family members are asking humanitarian questions, but we find little humanity afforded us in the platitudes, lies, lip service and stalls returned.
Ann Howes
Wichita, Kans.
Thank you for featuring M.I.A. families in your first issue. The families of the nearly 1,300 Americans missing in action and unaccounted for in Vietnam are very special people, deserving a helluva lot better treatment from the government than they are receiving. Their frustration and sacrifice are immeasurable and seemingly to no avail.
Dorothy Valerian
Shaker Heights, Ohio
People in the Past
Reading through, I stopped abruptly at page 51, "People in the Past." The photo of the Sphinx had to be identical with a framed picture that hung in our home when I was growing up. The baseball player in the back row, far left, is my father, Butcher Boy Joe Benz.
However, the caption is inaccurate. The White Sox, not the Cubs, barnstormed on that 1914 world tour.
PEOPLE is an extremely readable, informational and visual publication. I'm looking forward to future issues.
Sister Rita Mary Benz
Chicago, Ill.
Sister Rita Mary is right. After their game at the Sphinx (above), the "world's tourists," as the White Sox and the Giants were known, put on an exhibition of the national sport in London for King George V, who kept American Ambassador Walter Page at his side explaining the strange game.—ED.
Blatty Interview
I was amazed to find myself so extensively quoted in the initial issue, since neither Ms. Blagden nor Mr. Blatty bothered to ask me my opinion about The Exorcist.
I was also amazed that Mr. Blatty so blithely misrepresented my stated views. As a matter of fact, I have never stated that Fr. Merrin's faith was shaky nor have I implied that two priests became possessed at the end of the story.
It is regrettable that our differences over The Exorcist have degenerated into a personal quarrel, but I cannot help protesting Mr. Blatty's choice of fabricated and inaccurate comments to represent my views about his story. I am capable of writing my own material and, indeed, have, should he wish to consult it.
(Rev.) Richard Woods, O.P.
Chicago, Ill.
Gatsby
Of all the magazines, newspapers and pictorials which have printed pictures of shooting the film in Newport, yours is the first to show Jack Clayton, director; David Tringham, assistant director (holding the bullhorn); and Mike Haley, the young man who shepherded all of us extras from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. for 10 nights. I was one of the 500 "guests" at Gatsby's party.
Roger B. Wilson
Providence, R.I.
When I was passing the magazine stand your cover of Mia Farrow caught my eye. The headings immediately got my interest. I had barely driven into my driveway before I pulled PEOPLE from the sack and began flipping through. One page led to another and I couldn't make it into the house. Your new magic had hold of me.
Shelley L. Bush
Salt Lake City, Utah
Gloria Vanderbilt
Thank you for the Gloria Vanderbilt article. She is not another boring jet setter but a fine talented artist, and truly admired by many.
Ms. L.E. Pangallo
Watertown, N.Y.
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
