BEST & WORST DRESSED
I love your magazine, but how on earth could you possibly put Susan Lucci on the worst-dressed list? It's her beauty and elegance that keeps me and millions of other women (and men) glued to their TV sets every day. She could wear a potato sack and hold her own with anyone on your best-dressed list.
RUTH BOURDON, San Jose, Calif.
God bless the queen Mum/ With those eyes so a-twinkle/ Then grant her a gift/ Of some stockings nonwrinkle.
SALLIE STOKES, East Meadow, N. Y.
I'm an 11-year-old girl who was very disappointed with your Best & Worst Dressed issue. People have the right to wear whatever they want. Don't you have anything more grown-up to write about?
JESSICA FORD, Burlington, Conn.
You should be horsewhipped for being so desperate as to include Hillary Clinton and Susan Lucci in your worst-dressed category. Maybe someday your staff will have every thread of their wardrobes inspected like pieces of trial evidence, then splashed across the pages of your magazine for all to see.
PAMELA CLARE, Bedford, Mass.
Then again, maybe not—ED.
MARILU HENNER
I'm sure Messrs. Travolta, Hirsch and Danza appreciate Ms. Henner's vivid memory of her sexual escapades. It has been a long time since I read anything more callous and tasteless.
MOLLY BENNETT, Birmingham, Ala.
I can't wait to read Marilu Henner's sexual exploits with "Herman" and "Nub" of Evening Shade!
JOAN N. WHITE, Woodstown, N.J.
A more appropriate title for Marilu Henner's new book would be Mariloose.
MARY ANN GREEN, Wilmington, Del.
ROBERT "YUMMY" SANDIFER
Lorina Sandifer says of her son, "Gangs turned him [Yummy] into a monster." She need only look in the mirror to find out who turned him into a monster: the abuse and neglect heaped upon him from the time he was born.
DENISE MULLIN, Wilmington, Del.
A snort of incredulity escaped me as I read the end quote, "Something very, very wrong is happening; everyone is trying to grapple with why." Either these people are enmeshed in a deep state of denial, or they're just dismally stupid. Obviously, something is bound to go wrong when a woman starts having the first of her seven kids at 15, no father is present, heavy substance abuse is involved, kids pack weapons, and the grandmother had, at times, responsibility for 19 children.
DONNA MARRIN, Markham, Ont.
Regardless of Robert Sandifer's age, he killed someone. He got what he deserved. It is disgusting that he has gotten more coverage than innocent victims like Shavon Dean.
JULIE FULLER, Albuquerque
Robert Sandifer's short, violent life was the logical result of an out-of-control welfare system that encourages poor, unmarried women to make babies they are emotionally and intellectually incapable of caring for properly. It is time to end welfare, or welfare will end us.
STANLEY J. KULP, Houston
BOB HOOVER
How I sympathize with Bob Hoover, the world-famous stunt pilot who was judged unfit to fly at age 72 by a disgruntled FAA inspector. As a captain for a major airline, I also, along with hundreds of other captains each year, was declared "incompetent" solely because I had reached age 60. Although I was in superb condition mentally and physically, as testing demonstrated, and possessed an invaluable depth of experience, the FAA operational rule was my career's nemesis. This is the last vestige of "legal" discrimination remaining on our country's books.
GERALD D. BLALOCK, Carmichael, Calif.
There is something fundamentally wrong with this country's priorities when the Reed family's primary consideration in making a career move should have been whether they still would have had access to health care. There is something even more seriously wrong when a reader's angry response to the Reeds' plight expresses concern solely for how their situation may indirectly affect that reader as a taxpayer.
FAYE FLYNN, Phoenix, Ariz.
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