‘A Shoddy Piece of Writing’

I am shocked that a newspaper of the caliber of the Los Angeles Times would print such an immature, shoddy piece of writing as that turned out by Al Martinez (Aug. 15) regarding the Scribner-Levine campaign. I am not even necessarily a Scribner supporter, but I think this article may well affect fair-minded people in such a way as to bring about the opposite result from that which Martinez obviously wants enough to stoop to this strange piece. He attempts to make Scribner look like a nut and Levine a rational, wise, humorous, tolerant contestant. That is ludicrous!

ZILMA BARTEL

Malibu