LEAF LIVES!

Ever since I was lucky enough to get three letters published in Calendar in one day (Aug. 19, 1984) I have been persona non grata with The Times.

I have written about 20 letters on a variety of subjects (including rock ‘n’ roll) to the Editor, Calendar and Jack Smith, not one of which has been printed. Coincidence? Diabolical plot? Who knows? I guess I’ll have to die in order to get my name back in the paper.

Since I have, therefore, been powerless to defend my Calendar-conferred title (inherited from the late Felix de Cola) of Los Angeles’ Leading Rock Hater, I was utterly delighted to read Stanley Slome’s superb pro-Dixieland anti-rock diatribe (Calendar Letters, June 23). Give ‘em hell, Stan! Somebody has to remind ‘em that rock is musical manure and the king has no clothes on!

DR. MARVIN H. LEAF

Malibu