Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Who Reads The American Spectator! The editorial board of the magazine Young Communist sends its regrets for the advertisement [renewal notice], which was sent to our address by the...
...James Anthony Maloney," thanks to the device of margin markings and one sentence underlined in red ink...
...I. Razorenova Editor of the section for international life Young Communist: Magazine of the Central Committee of the Komsomol Moscow, USSR Bronx Cheer Aside from his peculiarly obtuse reading of the sour-spirited and stylishly inept film The Wanderers as "a good natured and sweet-tempered reverie about the South Bronx...," Mr...
...However, because you are so clearly a dedicated American patriot and, as such, devoted to both the truth and accuracy in the media, I know that you will gracefully accept my remarks...
...Robert Cahn The Bronx, New York Hun for All, and All for Hun I refer to one of your comments on the death of Dr...
...Not only is The Wanderers not about the South Bronx, it was even partially shot in appropriate North Bronx settings...
...To be in error is one thing, but to be a conscious, malicious liar is quite another, won't you agree...
...Herbert Marcuse in "The Continuing Crisis" (September 1979), and I quote: "For all his 81 years he was an Orphic grumbler, a leaden, Teutonic inspirer-of-snores, given to boiled beef, Kartoffel Klosse, and damp wool socks...
...lies...
...The lies that you published, obviously for the infantile gratification of your subscribers, are (1) Jim Maloney did not ambush the two FBI agents, as you stated, and (2) in spite of your unqualified accusation, Jim Maloney was not being investigated by the FBI "for drug trafficking...
...Norm Pliscou Holtville, California Typewriters are always the key...
...Tyrrell, that fire-breathing, right-wing fanatics should try to be, like Caesar's wife, above suspicion...
...Don't you agree, Mr...
...You ought to know better...
...Bertl Clement Dietrich Wilmette, Illinois Odyssey of a Friend For reasons unknown to me, I was rewarded this morning with a copy of your editorial piece, "The Continuing Crisis" (September 1979), provided by an anonymous correspondent through the mail...
...The editorial board of the magazine Young Communist sends its regrets for the advertisement [renewal notice], which was sent to our address by the weekly [sic] American Spectator, since in 1979 Young Communist cannot renew its subscription...
...The errors are (1) Jim Maloney was 30 years old, not 35, and (2) Jim Maloney was never a member of the Mexican-American Political Association...
...It pains me to bring this to your attention, Mr...
...Ed...
...We built one in the Maloney case...
...Marcuse, but resent your cheap shot at things German...
...Tyrrell, but your Maloney comments contain two simple errors of fact and two outright (deliberate...
...My attention was immediately drawn to your references to "Mr...
...We request that you consider the advertisement inoperative...
...Surely you will want to protect your good name and your reputation as an honest spokesman for America's right wing by making the necessary corrections and offering an apology to your readers in your next issue...
...I am no admirer of Dr...
...Podhoretz ("The Talkies" September 1979) is obviously also unfamiliar with the gangland turf of the Bronx...
Vol. 12 • November 1979 • No. 11