Man of the Year?
Sir:
For Man of the Year I nominate General Douglas MacArthur ... on whom the people of the U.S. depend for safety and security against Asiatic Communist domination.
W. N. MORRIS Houston, Texas
Sir:
. . . China's Mao Tse-tung, who has become the second most powerful ruler in the world and who may well shape the destiny of the rest of Asia.
GEORGE BOBINSKI Cleveland
Sir:
. . . Ralph Bunche.
ANDREW BILLINGSLEY Grinnell, Iowa
Sir:
. . . The man who has done more for peace than any other man in the last ten years, Pope Pius XII.
MICHAEL W. BARTOS Chicago
Sir:
. . . That artful diplomatist who has called every play at the U.N. this year--Jacob Malik. The machinations of what other man have affected the lives of so many people in the world?
EDWARD P. J. CORBETT Chicago
Sir:
. . . "Mr. Republican" Taft, the first ranking politician to recognize that in North America ownership (not to be confused with management) is numerically superior to organized labor.
THOMAS A. SUTTON
Toronto, Canada
Sir:
. . . The man who risked his own political career to make this country of ours Communist-conscious: Wisconsin's McCarthy.
HANS A. BERLINER Long Beach, Calif.
Sir:
. . . Senator Joe McCarthy, who, with his Senate "investigation" of State Department subversives, has done the most in the usurpation of civil liberties by government this year.
PETER ROSENBAUM
Haverford, Pa.
Sir:
. . . Secretary of State Dean Acheson . . .
SI SHULMAN Cincinnati
Sir:
Here's to G.I. Joe, God bless him--the forgotten Man of the Year.
ELIZABETH L. ROCKWELL Saginaw, Mich.
Sir:
Be truthful, and do as you did in 1938 when you named Hitler Man of the Year. Name World Enemy No. 1, Joe Stalin, Man of this Year. By doing so you may help shock the rank & file out of their inertia and into the realization of the serious situation confronting all of us ...
J. A. CONNELLY
New York City
How Strong Is Russia?
Sir:
I should like to commend you for your very excellent article on the Soviet Union's economic, as well as social and political war potential ["Background for War"--TIME, Nov. 27].
Not only the data presented,* but the conclusions reached, should be carefully considered by all thinking Americans, both in and out of public life.
I am making your article required reading in my courses at the University of Maine.
JOHN J. NOLDE University of Maine
Orono, Me.
Sir:
. . . Your article is the most significant of an excellent series--"must" reading for thoughtful Americans . . .
J. EDWARD GRAHAM
Melrose, Mass.
Outstanding Picture (Cont'd)
Sir:
[In a letter to TIME, Nov. 20, Photographer Edward Steichen said that a citation awaited the unknown photographer who made the outstanding picture of the burning carrier Franklin, reproduced in LIFE'S Picture History of World War II.]
The photograph . . . made during rescue operations by the light cruiser U.S.S. Santa Fe, was taken by Ship's Photographer William B. Bates Ph.M. 1/c. I hope that Captain Edward Steichen will be able to locate him, in order to present him with a well-deserved citation.
GILBERT H. BRITTAIN Chicago
P: Bluejacket Bates is now on active duty aboard the carrier Philippine Sea in Korean waters.--ED.
Cracked Teeth
Sir:
Re John McClain's not bothering "to check his sources" [TIME, Nov. 20]: TIME might catch up on its own sources--McClain is a New York Journal-American columnist, not a "New York World-Telegram and Sun columnist . . ."
Speaking of "cracked teeth," TIME should be swallowing same.
FRANCES RUSHMORE
Huntington, N.Y.
P: TIME'S face is TIME red.--ED.
K for X
Sir:
Regarding your Nov. 27 article on Norbert Wiener:
You have a footnote explaining the derivation of cybernetics "from xnbernnty*s, Greek for 'steersman.' " I believe the spelling in Greek is knbernnty*s, the first letter being a Kappa not x (Chi) . . .
FOUL A D. PETERSON Haverhill, Mass.
P: Reader Peterson is right. TIME erred in not questioning the spelling used in Professor Wiener's book.--ED.
Ptche-e-e-e-e-e-w
SIR:
AS THE PARENTS OF A 4 1/2-YEAR-OLD SON MY WIFE (FAY GILLIS) AND I CONSIDER YOUR NOV. 27 COVER UTTERLY AND ABSOLUTELY BEYOND THE PALE. NEVER HAVE WE SEEN A MORE INVITING INVITATION TO MURDER BY OUR CHILDREN. IN OUR HOME HOPALONG CASSIDY IS 100% VERBOTEN FOR THAT REASON . . . WE BELIEVE YOU SHOULD NOT ENCOURAGE OUR CHILDREN TO USE GUNS EXCEPT IN THE DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY . . .
LINTON WELLS
GREENWICH, CONN.
Sir:
The covers of TIME magazine have in my opinion always been most outstanding and timely. However, with William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, your artists have reached an apogee . . . The accompanying article was, of course, excellent . . .
RALPH HITZ JR. New York City
Sir:
Ten-gallon hats off to TIME for one of the most hilarious (and pointed) articles of the year . . .
May I suggest two other byproducts thriving on the "Hopalong" boom: children's eyeglasses (from TV straining), seat-covers (from TV squirming).
WILLIAM M. COWAN
Cambridge, Mass.
Pig Chase
Sir:
No need to go to far-off Saudi Arabia to find Geigers chasing oil pipeline "pigs" [TIME, Nov. 20]. Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. have had the same done for them on the 500-mile stretch of their new pipeline from Regina, Sask. to the U.S. border, but with the following difference: a radioactive source several hundred times "hotter" was used, for the pipe was three to eight feet underground. My turban had earflaps, for the temperature sometimes dipped to ten below zero.
P. J. STEWART Oakville, Ont.
*With one important typographical correction: drop three zeros from Russia's estimated production of aluminum, making it 160,000 tons a year.--ED.
* A sliding scraper pushed (by oil pressure) through the pipeline to clean it.
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