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LETTERS, Page 4Remembering Bette Davis
The media may have been fooled by Bette Davis (MILESTONES,
Oct. 16), but I wasn't. In 1944, during World War II, Miss Davis
met five 17-year-old U.S. Marines at the Hollywood Canteen. She
took us in hand, sat at our table, served us and never stopped
smiling, chatting and caring. "Majestic arrogance"? Hogwash! She
was the most beautiful and charming person I have ever met.
Charlie Leonard
Danville, Calif.
Your remembrance was marred by your index comment: "Bette
Davis, bitch goddess, dies at 81." You talk out of both sides of
your mouth with regard to sexism by using the word bitch, which
demeans women, to describe someone you praise as "modern . . .
smart, independent, combative . . . alluring."
Marcia Levy
Arlington, Va.