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April 18, 1945 Time, Inc. Time & Life Building Rockefeller Center New York 20, N. Y. At'n: "Letters Editor" Sirs: Upon receipt of your April 16 issue,aand upon starting my customary cover-to-cover perusal of TIME, I was amused by the nom de plume of Gulfport, Miss., correspondent (pp. 9-10). I wonder if your "Letters" editor knows the true and terrible identity of [[underline]]lachesis muta[[underline]]. And could the middle initials be an abbreviation of the same thing? Shades of Drs. Marsh, Picado and Ditmars! Yours truly, E. R. Silliman ERS/eab,