Within quantum chemistry the abbreviation ``HGE" means ``Harris, Engerholm and Gwinn", ``an early forerunner of discrete-variable methods" from 1965. In the letter in question, two calculations of resonances in even-parity potentials are presented which report the progress achieved in the earlier two ``naive" proposals (viz., of the hypervirial perturbation method [1] and of the matrix diagonalization method [2] by the same authors) when the HEG approach is incorporated. In the first (viz., a two-peak gaussian) example a disagreement is detected with the results of ref. [5]. In the second (viz., a power-law-perturbed inverted-gaussian) example a spectral-concentration phenomenon described in ref. [8] is made clearly visible. MR2186599 Killingbeck, John P.; Grosjean, Alain; Jolicard, Georges A complex variable form of the HEG technique. J. Phys. A 38 2005), no. 42, L695--L699. 65F15 (15A90)