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Appreciated is your good article about the year-old Pacific Spectator [TIME, Jan. 19], the stoutest attempt yet made to give the West Coast a magazine devoted to ideas rather than to house & garden hints, cheesecake, or the self-admiration of Hollywood. . . . But reference to "U.C.L.A.'s Dixon Wecter" calls for a word of correction. I meet a seminar on that campus one afternoon a week one term a year, but my main job is at the Huntington Library, where for the past two years I have been Chairman of Research. Whatever dubious credit arises from possession thus belongs...
...DIXON WECTER...
...Dixon Wecter, and Louis B. Wright of the Huntington Library. The only paid staffer is Managing Editor Edith Ronald Mirrielees, 69, a retired English professor who does her editing perched on a cushioned Governor Winthrop chair in the cozy study of her Palo Alto home...
...Wecter: "[William Waldorf Astor] on June 3, 1917 . . . became Viscount Astor, amid jeers from a large section of the British press which accused him of buying the title outright...
...Wecter: "Vincent Astor, present head of the family and childless, was a phlegmatic youth . . . has become the most progressive of all the Astors-founding model farms and building model tenements for the poor, as well as running de luxe apartments and the St. Regis for the rich...