With all the famous, fascinating and interesting people in this world you put Howard Cosell on your cover (PEOPLE, Sept. 29). What a bore.
Vickie Sims
North Hollywood
Looking at him on Monday night football is a great strain. I usually turn the sound off and watch the plays.
Martha Benson
Brownwood, Texas
Howard Cosell's picture proved very useful on the bottom of my birdcage. The bird knew what to do.
James Kozumplik
Kaneohe, Hawaii
Mother Seton
Good for you! The article on Mother Seton was great. Too many magazines tend to exclude religion from their format. Religion is something to live by, not an obstacle to avoid.
Debbie Kohl
Nashville
Mayor Harvey Sloane
Harvey Sloane is the most honest, hardworking and down-to-earth mayor that Louisville has ever had. I would like to see him in the White House.
Becky Willingham
Louisville
The truest sentence in your article was "he has cultivated a candidate's flair for the limelight." I suppose we can now expect television interviews, endorsements of his favorite products, then possibly he will retire for a movie contract in Hollywood. I anxiously await that day.
David Boyles
Louisville
Harvey Ingalls Sloane foot-raced a cable car in New Orleans? To where? Is somebody or something off the track?
D.W. Jordan, M.D.
Austin, Texas
Sloane was running so fast he didn 't notice it was just a plain trolley.—ED.
Margaux Hemingway
The idea of two prosperous newlyweds hitting it off like freewheeling kids, going around the country fishing, trapshooting, backpacking and enjoying life is great. But is Mrs. M. Hemingway Wetson some kind of prophet that her every idea or opinion, no matter how trivial, must be relayed and printed front and center?
Sue Brown
Ithaca, New York
Do Errol and Dumbaux Wetson have relatives on the staff of PEOPLE? Money she's got, interesting she's not. Anita Hess
Martintown, Ontario
We've heard about Margaux's parties, her sister's forest fantasies, her wedding and now her honeymoon. The only thing you can follow all this with is a big, messy divorce.
Jim Hall
Lawrence, Kansas
Natalie Cole
It was a pleasure reading about someone who realizes that it's an insult to be hired strictly for her parent's name. Some people, like Margaux Hemingway, have not yet come upon that realization.
Carol Metayer
New York
Charles Schultz
You identify Peppermint Patty as one of the four original "Peanuts" characters. She came along much later. The first female Peanut was Patty (no "Peppermint") who still makes an appearance now and then.
David Hubbard
Norwalk, Conn.
Drew Middleton
Your interview of Drew Middleton shows the danger of one's remaining a military specialist too long. Decades of cultivating top brass infuse the reporter with their point of view. Wars become grand games, Class A, B and C. Such language as "sweeping changes in force concepts, strategic and tactical doctrine" tips us off that we mustn't look for plain talk about blunders and bloodshed.
No military writer with a claim to independence has any business striking cozy poses with generals and admirals. This practice suggests that Middleton is not a writer to trust for the kind of skeptical reporting on the U.S. Military that recent years have proved so vital.
The photo of Middleton perched cross-legged on a Spanish cannon adds a touch of comic pomp to your portrayal of a man who, like too many Pentagoneers, rationalizes the Vietnam tragedy as "constructive" and an experience that Russian officers envy.
Kenneth C. Danforth
Bath, England
Chatter
Telly Savalas may have a great horse but he got a bum steer! The Brown Hotel was sold to the Louisville Board of Education for an administration building a few years back. Tell Telly that if he needs a place to stay for the Derby, he can spend the weekend with us for free with all the mint juleps he can handle.
Stanley and Cardi Fleck
Louisville
Earl Butz
Where did you get your impression that "for the farmers, liking Earl Butz is only doing what comes naturally"? I can sure tell you didn't talk to any farmers or farm organizations. His many actions and statements in support of large corporate farms and against the small farmers have given most of us in this area the urge to offer him a manure fork and suggest what he could do with it.
Liz Jennings
Jewell, Iowa
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!
