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While Mr. James P. Wenner [TIME, July 14 Letters Column] is quibbling over quiddities, let him watch his own vocabulary. "Toothpicks (for Martinis)" indeed! Have we not already enough articles in current use bearing ancient names that have no reference to their modern functions, e.g., "antimacassar," "penknife" and "Democrat" (capital...
...implement, the toothpick, passes from the scene in an ever-widening social circle. The massive, rounded hardwood utensil with which modern hostesses and bartenders spear canapes and Martini olives was never intended to explore dental apertures, although it might serve for a murder weapon in a pinch. Let Mr. Wenner, the perfectionist, find a modern name for this modern thing. But I warn him that "skewerette" is barred...
...sight to tourists on Caribbean cruise ships, an Austrian-born anthropologist brought news of an Indian tribe so cut off that until recently its 2,000 members thought Spanish kings still ruled Colombia. The scientist is Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 40, working with a grant from New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Indians are the Kogis, perhaps the most remarkable community of aborigines still flourishing on the American continents...
...student of anthropology, Martin was engaged in a study of the Labrador Indians. He held the Wenner-Gren pre-doctoral fellowship awarded annually to ten American anthropologists of outstanding promise...
FRANCES P. WENNER City Point...