Kinison’s Image

Jan. 1 I cheerily opened The Times to the Calendar section to begin the New Year auspiciously. My “compliments” to you on your selection, for the front page, of the slobbiest, crudest and surely most revolting picture you must have--one of comedian Sam Kinison.

Editorial qualifications do not require consideration of the reading public’s sensibilities anymore?

ELIZABETH J. FOSTER, Los Angeles