Correcting the Record

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp’s reference to my late husband Jules Langsner as British is incorrect (“His Specialty: One-Liners,” Aug. 22). Jules was born in New York and raised in Los Angeles. Additionally, it was he who brought together the original four Abstract Classicists: Frederick Hammersley, Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson and John McLaughlin.

While Jules may best be remembered for coining the term “hard-edge,” his achievements were numerous. At the time of his death in 1967, Henry Seldis, art critic for The Times, wrote that he “had unmistakably become the preeminent art critic on the West Coast.”

JUNE HARWOOD

Studio City

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I greatly enjoyed Mary McNamara’s piece about Jake Jacobson’s book “Heart and Hands,” including some background on the three of us pictured (“Harmony Close at Hand,” Aug. 22). I feel like I know the others just a little now. Maybe we could jam sometime.

Just a note of clarification: My Princeton Theological Seminary classmates would be startled to read of my attendance at Yale Divinity School, and both of my twin sons, Tim and Tom, constitute the band Zehnder.

THE REV. JOHN L. ZEHNDER

Santa Monica

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I enjoyed Patrick Goldstein’s article on Hollywood in 1969 and was especially thrilled to read Elliott Gould and Dustin Hoffman’s fond remembrances of my father’s Beverly Hills clothing store, Eric Ross & Co. (“Man, What a Trip That Was,” Aug. 15).

I don’t know Goldstein’s age, but I guess that he must have been wearing only diapers back then, otherwise he would have known that the store was not “Eric Roth’s.” Misspelling or not, it was great to read that the men of Hollywood have not forgotten Eric Ross.

Though the store is long gone, if Hoffman, Gould or Warren Beatty still need clothing tips, they can call me and I’ll put them back in touch with my dad, Ronn Teitelbaum.

JILL TEITELBAUM

Los Angeles