Believers & Others
Sir:
Was it by accident or sheer brilliance that TIME [Dec. 1] presented the contrasting articles, "Know the Truth" and "What They Believe," in its Education and Religion departments, respectively? . . .
Is it too much to hope that more men like Carnegie Foundation President Carmichael will step forward categorically on the side of truth to expose this generation's educators and fellow travelers for the brood of nihilistic vipers that they are ? One would almost believe so, when pondering the inane and pious cant that appears as the profound soul-searching of the majority of contributors to Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series . . .
W. J. CRAIGHEAD Lakewood, Ohio
Sir:
I could not help but compare Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's belief to Dr. Oliver C. Carmichael's. Give us more Carmichaels and fewer, if any, Roosevelts.
JAMES BLADE Arlington, Va.
Sir:
This I Believe . . . proclaims the all but complete triumph of secularism. It looks as though we have fairly well got rid of God; it only remains for us now to get rid of Man.
ARTHUR S. TRACE JR.
Stanford, Calif.
Man of the Year?
Sir:
Would it be too much to suggest that TIME might have the broad-mindedness to rise above its bitter criticism of the past and select Senator Joseph McCarthy? . . .
CATHERINE COULTER
Waltham, Mass.
Sir:
Thomas E. Dewey, the oracle of Owosso, for his most remarkable, double-header victory in taming the Taftites and terminating the Trumanites.
SIG GREENBERG Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sir:
. . . Richard Nixon's cocker spaniel, Checkers . . . Millions of American dog owners were carried away by the image of Checkers' sad eyes pleading: "My poor master," "mortgages," "old car," "policy loan," "Republican cloth coat," etc. They rushed to vote for Nixon. The resulting landslide for the Republicans, including the election of Eisenhower, was natural, if coincidental.
RICHARD BARSKY Montreal, Que.
Sir:
Marine Commandant "Lem" Shepherd . . . (CPL.) V. H. CARPENTER (Prc.) W. F.TRASK
U.S.M.C. Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Sir:
. . . I nominate the only person who has stayed pure and innocent throughout his entire career--Li'l Abner.
JOHN BUCKLEY JR. Las Vegas, Nev.
Sir:
Christine Jorgensen . . . for Man and/or Woman of the year.
H. QUINTO
New York City
The Secret Life of Editors
Sir:
I am happy to see in your Dec. 1 issue that that great American, Walter Mitty, has become so firmly integrated in critical parlance as to merit comparative mention in three TIME departments: Cinema, Theater and Books.
HANS HANSEN
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sir:
Friend of yours?
AARON GOLDMAN
Washington, D.C. P:Yes, but TIME'S editors were caught dreaming.--ED.
Crime & Punishment
Sir:
Shame on your Dec. 1 story about the Rosenbergs. It is an outrage . . . As a Jew, I am sorry for the Rosenbergs, primarily that they too are Jews, and secondarily that their crime does not deserve the electric chair . . .
H. W. SCHEIN Louisville, Ky.
Sir:
. . . The Rosenberg crime was political, and as such must not be dealt with religiously . . . As a Jew I can feel no differently disposed towards them than I would to anyone else who committed such an unjustifiable act . . . There can be only one answer to the question of commuting the death sentence for these two who were willing to sell out their country . . .
I. RONALD SHENKER Flushing, N.Y.
Sir:
I wonder if those same people from England, France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland who are in the "Save-the-Rosenbergs" movement made a similar appeal for the eleven Communist leaders who were hanged in Czechoslovakia?
GINA DE LEEUW Amsterdam, Holland
Doctors in Uniform
Sir:
Rear Admiral Lamont Pugh's biased criticism in TIME, Dec. 1 is typical of the narrow attitude of top medical brass hierarchy in the armed forces. The majority of American doctors & dentists are not interested in military medicine . . . The thing that makes military medicine revolting to most doctors is not the hardships of service or the burden of overwork in the professional aspects of medicine, but red tape, confusion, idleness, waste of talents, boredom and paper work . . .
B. T. GALBRAITH, M.D. McAlester, Okla.
Sir: The only solution to the problem of shortage of doctors in the armed forces is a Government-sponsored National Medical Academy, created along the lines of West Point, which would annually supply doctors as West Point produces officers.
RICHARD A. GRUDZINSKI Syracuse, N.Y.
Mann & Freedom
Sir: It is appropriate to ask Citizen Thomas Mann for a more specific definition of the "slight restrictions of freedom" [TIME, Dec. 1] in the country whose citizenship he is anxious to keep . . . He has the moral obligation to speak up instead of spreading insinuations against his adopted homeland and to violate his promise to act as a good-will messenger when issued his American passport for travel abroad. Of course, the Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann was for literature, not for taste, tact and loyalty.
JULIUS BAUER, M.D. Los Angeles
Service Stripes
Sir: . . . In your Nov. 10 issue there was a paragraph devoted to the outcome of the senatorial election in New Jersey . . . I was described as a "Wall Street lawyer who had served briefly as Under Secretary of the Army." I served a few days short of two years as Under Secretary, following nine months as Assistant Secretary. I must say I am curious to know what length of service is required in order to get a man out of the "brief" category . . .
ARCHIBALD S. ALEXANDER Bernardsville, NJ.
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