Going to Prom Without a Date

As a former newspaperman, I am astounded that a newspaper like The Times would devote major editorial space and even a lead editorial to such minuscule and utterly inconsequential trivia as a 16-year-old girl who didn’t have a date for a high school prom but insisted on going anyway.

And what may your readers now breathlessly await as a sequel? A full-page feature with banner headline when the kid starts going steady?

No city editor I ever worked for would have given a moment’s thought to wasting space on such nonsense, which might possibly belong in a high school newspaper but certainly not in The Times.

CHARLES F. QUEENAN

Santa Ana