Author Archives: Lincoln Edmands

To the editors: This question of the Chicago University Orthogenic School and its leader in times past, Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, seems to be an issue that won’t go away [Letters, April 6 and 20; May 4, 11, and 2 5; and June 8 and 15]. We even have a graduate “Winston 1984” who insists the […]

To the editors: I like to enter into the other fellow’s enthusiasms but with Bill Wildt’s Motorsports Advancement Crusade [Our Town, July 28] I just don’t know. Is our car manufacturing establishment competitive edge that dependent on the talent fed into it by the young men whose first love is to tinker with and tune […]

To the editors: Victoria Berlin is so right in her letter (“Pet Pancakes” 7/21/89) regarding dead canines & felines [Our Town July 7] and (in fact, regarding) all of the animals we share this earth with. I’ll add, “What a giant step it will be for mankind when the pros and the cons in the […]

To the editors: Phil Krone (Reader 7/14/89) is too handicapped from having started at the top with Harry Truman . . . and been there ever since . . . to accomplish anything significant in this life, until making the most of the chivalry that is in him, he takes up the cause of the […]

To the editors: It will be a great day for the Reader and for the human race when editorially the paper raises three cheers for the entrepreneur who brought “Windy City Motor Coach” [“The Prison Run,” June 9] into existence in January 1987. This one day service to accommodate relatives of inmates of Downstate prisons […]

To the editors: How well advised are readers of the Reader’s “Neighborhood News” of June 16th 1989 by writer Ben Joravsky when he tells ratepayers–and who isn’t!–not to thumb their noses at Commonwealth Edison. But what can a person do? So you fight and you lose–leaving it up to Edison to do the right thing–but […]

To the editors: Does the Reader paste advertising signs on its trucks the way the other papers do? I’ll suggest one! “On environmental issues read Jerry Sullivan [bi]weekly and forget the rest. He says it all. Our Jerry can make it fun to read.” Lincoln Edmands E. 76th St.

To the editors: Tho on the right track Habitat [“Love Amid the Rubble,” November 18] is just a drop in the bucket. It will never meet the housing need in your day or mine. The problem is that people can’t do for themselves any more. In the old days there were many jacks of all […]

To the editors: The John Conroy story on minimum security at the federal correctional camp near Portage, Wisconsin, in the October 7th Reader strikes me as holding great promise for the future. Those who can handle responsibility get their chance and the taxpayer saves money. I see some of the shortcomings owed to the limited […]

To the editors: Paul Botts on the future of the Sox (6/3/88) is so right. It is the public which is the real client since it is they who are expected to pick up the check. Take a poll of your readers. Here’s a plan worthy of enthusiastic public support. We must show Jerry Reinsdorf, […]

To the editors: I have to go back to make my point back to “Power Politics” (Reader 3/18/88) which told the story of the present Edison franchise. You’d better believe two main papers in Chicago aren’t enough. I’ll bet many many people were picking up Readers that never had before! Your problem is that you […]

To the editors: About John Holden’s story on Emerald City [Neighborhood News, October 2] none can claim they didn’t know. “Dream no little dreams,” Mayor Carter Harrison told us back when this century was young. Martin Luther King heard him, and so, too, even earlier, did “great statesman” Vito Marzullo. The 60s were the last […]

To the editors: I hadn’t got very far into “[In the Realm of the] Censors” (July 3) before concluding its author, Robert McClory, had to be addicted to making mountains out of molehills. In one out of how many school districts in the United States they want to keep that cute dish drying poem out […]

To the editors: Hurrah for Mary Nissenson (Hot Type, June 5). Naturally when Argentines learn what some Americans do, and, by the rest of us, are allowed their freedom, the “little lower than the angels” view of humankind is not seen to hold much water. We can’t be decent Christians, or anything else decent, until […]