Monday, 12 May 2014

Life April 9 1951 Page 10

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS CONTINUED 
Sirs: 
Here is a picture of another Navy couple. I was the commanding officer-a lieutenant (j.g.)-and she a store- keeper 2/c before we were married. Now it's a 50-50 proposition. 
DR. J. HENRY WINN 
Boston, Mass. 

WILLA CATHER 
Sirs: 
LIFE has written sensitively and sensibly about Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Scott Fitzgerald. Now comes your handsomely illustrated text by David E. Scherman about Willa Cather ("Willa Cather Country," LIFE, March 19). May I, as the translator into French of My Antonia, congratulate you on a timely job excellently done. 
VICTOR LLONA 
South Yarmouth, Mass. 

Sirs: 
. . . It was like meeting old friends and visiting remembered places. A truly fine article. 
ALBERT LANDSBERGER 
Bismarck, N. Dak. 

Sirs: 
Willa Cather loved Jaffrey, N.H. so much she asked to be buried here. She is now buried under the shade of Monadnock Mountain in the Old Burial Ground in Jaffrey Centre. 
JANICE LEE MCGINNIS 
East Jaffrey, N.H. 

Sirs: Your worthy presentation of Willa Cather revived vivid memories of her at the University of Nebraska. In the east daring women had created a sensation by wearing bloomers. The West had not yet seen them. One morning before classes Willa Cather rode up on 
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The average price of a new home then was $9000 about 2.56 times the yearly average wage of $3510. Which was about 2.34 times the price of a new car $1500. Today?

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