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Thanks for featuring New Jersey in your 50th anniversary series (Aug. 18). With the Stanley Cup champions and the NBA Eastern Conference champions, the Jets and the Giants, horse racing's Hambletonian and Haskell, the nation's premier lifeguard competitions and Springsteen and Bon Jovi, New Jersey has it all—plus a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED feature. P.S.: Tell Steve Rushin that real Irishmen drink their Guinness warm (AIR AND SPACE, Aug. 18).
GOV. JAMES E. MCGREEVEY, Trenton, N.J.

Next time poll South Jersey for your article. The Eagles, Flyers, Phillies and Sixers rule in the best part of the state.
BILL GLADNEY, Gibbstown, N.J.

Perhaps the continuing legacy of McCarthyism led you to exclude New Jersey's greatest athlete, Paul Robeson. At Rutgers, Robeson, a native of Princeton, was awarded 15 varsity letters in four sports (football, baseball, basketball and track) and became one of the first African-American All-Americas in football while also excelling academically and in the arts. Walter Camp called him a "a veritable superman." Robeson, a renowned actor, orator and concert singer, would later be smeared and blackballed by those who believed the First Amendment did not extend to intelligent people of color on the left, but that does not in the least diminish his stature as a role model of the highest order.
PATRICK F. MCDEVITT, Buffalo