Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR DECOROUS SHRIEKS "When a Canadian screams, he screams good." writes Max Frankel in "Canada's Struggle for Identity" (NL, March 4). As a Canadian who is a regular reader of...
...Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Actually, we all speak Portuguese...
...American magazines, on the other hand, were expensive and hard to find, though there was a great eagerness for them...
...they believe instead they have never left England, which is even more maddening for those of us who must suffer them...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
...others may be interested in sending their copies after they have finished reading them...
...Lowell Chapman LATE NIGHT TV David Boroff's appraisal of the late night television shows of Johnny Carson and Steve Allen (NL, January 21) indicates that he really has not seen very many of the latter's programs...
...I have read through such articles in the past, almost invariably finding them dreary and unconvincing...
...Henry Mayers...
...Cleveland, Ohio N. Sanduleak MAGAZINES FOR ASIA During one of our trips to Asia, my husband and I saw an abundance of Communist magazines printed in English...
...Perhaps some of your readers would like to send gift subscriptions to The New Leader to people in Asia...
...Because we are a volunteer organization, and without large funds, we ask that a stamped, selfaddressed envelope be enclosed with all such requests...
...I, for instance, have been sending copies of The New Leader to teachers, journalists and students...
...In order to do something about this imbalance, in 1959 we started a project called "Magazines from a Friend in the United States to a Friend Overseas...
...3. Canadians are not touchy about whose dollar—America's or Canada's—happens to be worth more at the moment...
...I feel much better already...
...1. French is not Canada's national language, as many Americans I have met were surprised to learn...
...Where possible, we try to match areas of interest...
...they despise it—especially when the money is accompanied by (as it so often is) a good deal of phony moralizing about helping out a good neighbor...
...His few brief efforts at adult entertainment and the sprinkling of good music are lost amid the endless audience participation gimmicks and the circus atmosphere which pervades the entire show...
...New Leader readers who are interested in taking part in the project can obtain further information by writing to: Magazines, Box 3196, Los Angeles 28, California...
...5. Canadians do not resent the fact that nearly all postwar investment has come from the U.S...
...2. Canadians do not live in a country where it snows all year round—only 11 months...
...Toronto, Ontario Donald McLaughlin BOUQUET FOR POLONIUS May I throw a small bouquet to Howard Nemerov for the examination of his own poem "Polonius Passing Through a Stage" ("Polonais as Polonius," NL, March 4...
...They were very cheap, and some were even given away free...
...Thank you...
...In three brief pages Nemerov's tells us more about the mysterious act of creation than many a discouragingly fat volume on esthetics...
...Given the talent and intelligence of Steve Allen, both frequently demonstrated on his old Tonight show, the fact remains that his current show is the most tasteless and banal on television...
...On any given night, both shows can be easily outclassed by an old Roscoe Karns movie...
...Why I bothered to read through still another, I cannot say, though in this case I am glad I did...
...The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Since the beginning of the project, we have arranged for about 100,000 Asian families to come in contact with American families through the exchange of American magazines...
...Thus while Carson may make Jack Paar look good by contrast, Steve Allen is now performing the same service for Carson...
...some of us are touchy, however, at being thought touchy about it...
...As a Canadian who is a regular reader of your magazine, perhaps you will allow me a few fairly decorous shrieks which may have the effect of improving at least one Canadian's relations with the United States...
...For the present, we are operating in Asia only, although we often do have requests from South America and Africa which we also fill...
...4. Immigrants who have come to Canada in recent years do not believe they have come to America...
...Yet we do not want to go into these countries officially until we can take care of the large number of requests that come to us from Indonesia, India, Formosa, Pakistan, Burma, Cambodia, etc...
Vol. 46 • March 1963 • No. 6
