Medicine: Daddy’s 3,000 Years Old

“Daddy’s 3,000 Years Old” After reading that human sperm might be deep-frozen and used for artificial insemination years after the father’s death (TIME, Aug. 27), an indignant Englishwoman wrote to the New Statesman and Nation:

“Listen—I married because I love a warm living human man; my heart and soul wanted to make a warm living human home and grow in it babies, babies made by my husband and me … Can a putrefied Charlemagne or a mummified Pharaoh protect and love and guide a living child? ‘My daddy’s three thousand years old. Yeth, we go to thee him in the museum thometimes. We thee hith toe poking out of the bandage, just like my big toe’ . . . I am already a craven prehistoric cave woman of 1951. Thank God. At least we’re all five of us alive, 98.4 degrees F.”