HOLLYWOOD — The following letters respond to recent reporting in The Times. They have been edited for length and clarity.
Your reporter asked me at the final whistle whether the sticker stays on, and I said through Monday, and I would like the record to show that I kept my word to the day (“Hollywood 21, Marshall 20,” August 29). It came off Tuesday morning at the kitchen table. It is now in my wallet, behind my library card, where it will stay until they beat us at our place next August, at which point I will throw it away in front of witnesses. Two further points. Bill Haney was right to go for two, and the people on my side of the field who are still complaining about it did not watch Marvin Teale lose nine games in 1988 and go for two in every one of them. And the trophy is ours by origin, whatever the Hollywood version says, and the taped question mark on the base is the only honest thing on it. I have been saying this since Eisenhower. I will be saying it next year. — Marv Sinclair, Los Feliz
I use a wheelchair and I have been going past Ms. Quintero’s newsstand for nine years, and on the morning the bench moved I measured the gap myself, with my own tape, because I have learned not to trust other people’s (“At 6:40 on a Wednesday Morning, the Bench Finally Goes,” September 10). Forty-one inches. Fine. Now here is my question for the committee that spent $4,850 and a summer on that one bench. On my regular routes in this district, between my apartment, the market, the clinic and the library, I pass thirty-eight other benches from the same contractor. I have not measured them. I would like the city to. If it took a newsstand with a lease and a newspaper with a photographer to move one, I would like to know what it takes to move the ones that are only in the way of people like me. — Dolores Tunstall, Hollywood
I graduated from Marshall in 1971 and have attended the Hollywood game in most of the years since, and I want to congratulate the sophomore, Okotie, who made a play at the goal line that our tight end will be seeing at night for some time. It was a clean play and a good one and it beat us, and I am a grown man and can say so. I would also like to say, as a Marshall alumnus, that Marv Sinclair does not speak for all of us on the trophy’s origin, only for most of us, and that the orange sticker on his cap was the best thing on our side of the field all night. Marvin Teale coached against us for twenty-six years and I never once heard a Marshall man say a bad word about him. That is a rarer thing than a two-point stop. — Grady Hollinger, Atwater Village
I am one of the 2,140 (“Foxglove Posts Its Second Wave,” September 4). I have applied for eleven animation jobs in this city this year. Eight of them asked for test work. Seven of the eight expected it for free, and I did it for free, because you do. Foxglove asked for four hours of exercise work and paid me $180 for it, by direct deposit, four days after I sent it in, before I had heard whether I was going further. I have not heard yet. I may not go further. I am writing anyway, because that $180 is the first money anyone in this industry has paid me for drawing since I graduated, and I wanted it in the paper that it happened. — Kenji Corrigan, East Hollywood
Del Mackey painted my first window in the spring of 1980, the week I opened (“Delbert Mackey, 91,” September 1). He charged me forty dollars and took two days, and I remember thinking that was a lot of money and a lot of time for a hardware store nobody had heard of. Forty-six years later I have just sold that store, and I want to say for the record that the window was the best forty dollars I spent in it. He gave me the paper pattern when he was done, folded in thirds, and I have it still, in the drawer under the register, which now belongs to Marisela. I have told her it goes with the store. She said she knew. — Walt Dorsey, Hollywood