I truly enjoyed your article on Mr. and Mrs. Rob Reiner (PEOPLE, March 22). After reading so much about the yo-yoing Liz and Dick relationship, it's nice to read about some real PEOPLE for a change.
Karen E. Mayo
Rocky Hill, Conn.
I do not understand how you could publish the picture of Penny and Rob Reiner with daughter Tracy holding the hatchet over them. I think it is a horrible picture, and not funny in the slightest.
Jean S. Grant
Madison, Wis.
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater has always been the ultimate in outspoken ideas and principles concerning our country. The gravest mistake we've made as voters was failing to elect him President.
Mrs. Bonnie Brink
Richmond, Calif.
I'm a caseworker for the agency that distributes food stamps in Illinois. Mrs. Goldwater might be eligible for food stamps, as her husband suggested, if her net income was $215 per month or less and her total assets in savings and non-homestead property no more than $1,500. She would, of course, have to be formally divorced from the wealthy Mr. Goldwater or else argue most convincingly that there was a total marital separation with no support from her husband. Otherwise, Mrs. Goldwater would have to lie deliberately on the application to be considered eligible. Such lies are commonly known as "fraud." For all her trouble, Mrs. Goldwater would receive $50 a month in food stamps. She would have to pay up to $40 for them. Just how much catered food can a person purchase with $50 in food stamps a month? I'd like to see Goldwater try it.
Mrs. Judith Kapture
Lockport, Ill.
It's incredible that a man who makes the laws we live by actually believes there are no hungry people in America. The people of Arizona obviously are suffering from malnutrition if this is the kind of garbage they're fed by the senator on a regular basis.
Doug Ekman
Kalamazoo
Did Goldwater embroider his own jeans?
Charlotte M. Wallace
Huntsville, Ala.
No, Mrs. Goldwater did.—ED.
What an impressive article about a great American—and a great father. Thank you.
Peggy Goldwater Holt
Newport Beach, Calif.
Tawny Godin
I say dethrone Tawny Godin and abolish the Miss America pageant if they can't select contestants who uphold the highest morals and virtues that this pageant has been noted for in the past.
Mrs. M. E. Robinson
Nashville
At last we have a Miss America not afraid to break away from the cocoon of plastic femininity.
Donald A. Stubbs Jr.
Minneapolis
Brian Oldfield
A dozen scrambled eggs, one pound of bacon, 20 ounces of milk, 20 ounces of orange juice, 16 ounces of coffee and Brian still has room for a few nibbles of a San Jose cheerleader. That's really a healthy appetite!
Maggie Phrufe
Westwood, Calif.
To watch a 6'5", 250-pound man "pirouette" with the grace of a dancer, then throw with the strength of a champion is beyond belief. Perfection!
N. McIntosh
Los Angeles
Phoebe Snow
Were you aware that the original Phoebe Snow was not a train but the pet of the advertising world of the 1890s? The Lackawanna Railroad ad went as follows: "Miss Snow draws near the cab to cheer/ The level-headed engineer/ Whose watchful sight makes safe her flight/ Upon the Road of Anthracite." Clean air in the '90s? You bet!
Julie W. Bitting
Glenview, Ill.
White-clad Phoebe symbolized the cleanliness of the hard-coal-burning Lackawanna in 58 other jingles used by the line until World War I, when dirty soft coal was put into use.—ED.
Ellen McCormack
This "campaign" of Ellen McCormack's is just a cheap trick to gain money from the government and exposure for the "right to life" cause. I object very much to my tax dollars being used for that purpose.
Gale K. Stolz
Chicago
I wish Ellen McCormack and all those of the same persuasion would recognize two important facts about abortions: 1) Not permitting a woman to have a legal abortion is exactly the same principle as forcing a woman to have an abortion; and 2) Abortions have been performed since the beginning of history and shall continue, legal or not. The only difference is in the absence of mutilated or dead women. As an R.N., I've seen more than enough of that.
Jan Doyle
Hollywood
Your article made me refer to this poem I penned one dead of night:
Beginner's Luck
Man gambles on the maybes/ And even calls it odd/ That little bits of babies/ Are little bits of God.
Jim Tisserand
New York City
Jane Bartholomew
Others before Jane Chester Bartholomew are said to have posed for Columbia Pictures' Lady with the Torch. Researching my book Who's Who in Hollywood: 1900-1975 (Arlington House), I found a 1930 issue of Columbia Showman (house organ) which stated that, in a competition of 15,000 beauties, Brooklyn's Lesly Beth Storey had been chosen. In Los Angeles papers in 1961, an obit appeared for Marda Dearing who, in 1932, "modeled for the Columbia Studio Statue of Liberty." About the same time in Hollywood, a Duncan Cassell claimed that, c. 1935-37, his wife had posed for it. Actress Claudia Dell has said that she posed for the Torch Lady in 1937, without pay, for the publicity. It has also been published that, in 1939, Henny Backus, wife of actor Jim Backus, was the "last to pose" for the studio trademark. Who really posed for Columbia's inspiring Lady with the Torch—now being phased out as the company's logo—may remain one of the great unsolved mysteries of Hollywood.
David Ragan
New York City
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!
