Letters

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Dear Editors:

You're always printing letters by readers. telling how much they enjoy issues. Do you also print letters about how lousy a reader finds an issue? If so, please accept Bronx cheers for your October-November issue. I hope Internal Revenue will allow the four bits to be considered pure charity. The socalled poetry was, with very few exceptions, a pathetic waste of time and paper. And God! Of all miserable claptrap: "Some Historical Incidents." The two "incidents" each concerned characters of no great fame or interest, and, more important, were in all ways pointless and witless. And there are so many you could choose from in this area: Julius Caesar's yielding his young body to the King of Bythnia to get a Roman naval base (see Suetonius); the birth of democracy at Athens as a result of intrigues arising from the tyrant taking a youth from his lover (see almost any Greek classical history); The Sacred Band of Thebes, with Philip's beautiful epitaph (see Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas) over their mass death in battle; the tragic execution of the BoyEmperor Conradino with his lover Frederick of Baden voluntarily joining him in death on the block (1268 A.D.). Mr. G.

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Dear Sirs:

Just a short letter to acknowledge my October-November issue of ONE and let you know that I thought it especially fine. I'm quite fond of poetry and appreciated seeing more of it on "other love." I was especially enamoured of the UNSUNG LOVER by Jody Shotwell and of course always enjoy articles by Sten Russell. The little biographies of the people that contribute to your publication are enlightening and tend to make one feel more "at home" than just names-hope that you plan to make it a feature more or less permanently.

Miss B.

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

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