Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2548

Letter from Alfred P. Haake, Hi-Oaks, Route 2, Largo, Florida, with carbon of his letter of same date to the Editor of the Harvard Business Review

April 15, 1957

 

 

 

Dear Dr. Heath,

 

In response to yours of April 12th, — thank you for letting me read your excellent reply to the article “Skyhooks” by Dr. O.A. Ohmann.

 

I can best express what I think of your article by enclosing copy of a letter I have written to the Editor of the Harvard Business Review.

 

Cordially yours.

 

(signed) Alfred P. Haake

 

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April 15, 1957

 

To the Editor of

The Harvard Business Review

Harvard College

Cambridge, Mass.

 

Dear Sir,

 

It is a matter of regret that Dr. O.A. Ohmann, could not have read the various commentaries on his article “Skyhooks” in your May-June, 1955 issue, before he wrote and you published his “Skyhooks”.

 I am afraid that he, with a number of others who see genius reflected in their writings and are not inhibited by a sense of economic and spiritual proportion, knows too much and understands far too little of what he knows. He just does not understand our free enterprise system and the principles
on which it is built, or its practical reconciliation with religion.

 May I recommend to him that he read again, if he has read it, or read it very carefully, if he has not yet read it, – the very excellent and truly scholarly letter written you by Dr. Spencer Heath. Dr. Heath is so far superior to Dr. Ohmann in his understanding of what it is all about, that one wishes Dr. Ohmann might go to school to Dr. Heath before he publishes any further comments on our economic and social system.

                        Sincerely yours,

 

                        /s/ Alfred P. Haake