The Women

Sir:

. . . Although we do not approve fully of Mr. Kinsey, your Aug. 24 cover is, in short, terrific.

(Miss) ALVA LUCERO (Miss) G. CAMPBELL

Omaha

Sir:

Having anticipated TIME'S cover story of the Kinsey event, I was shocked to find it in the Medicine section. Wouldn't it have been more apropos in your Sport section, or perhaps in Business?

JUDE P. DOUGHERTY Washington, D.C.

Sir:

. . . Huckster Kinsey's book is strictly for the birds, and for the bees in his bonnet as well.

JACQUES PIEROT

New York City

SIR:

CAN'T BUY OUR AUG. 24 TIME: OUR NEWSSTANDS SOLD OUT. ALL HOLIER-THAN-THOUS WANT TO READ YOUR REPORT ON KINSEY'S BOOK. BE PREPARED FOR INDIGNANT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

CAPTAIN AND MRS. C. N. BEECHAM WICHITA, KANS.

Sir:

I wonder if it has ever occurred to Dr. Kinsey that the women who would avoid his survey are the one-third to two-thirds of U.S. women who are frigid and would not willingly admit to such a deficiency . . .

HAZEL RASMUSSEN Santa Monica, Calif.

Sir:

. . . Your article on Dr. Kinsey and his work made me furious. The article treats "sex" as something dirty. This is obvious from the insertion of the smutty cartoon by Peter Arno . . . Decent, healthy people, who can enjoy love, regard Dr. Kinsey's work as a serious, scientific study, and do not try to undermine the effects of this work with

ADOLPH E. SMITH

New York City

Sir:

. . . Cartoonist Arno puts such things in their true light and makes life worth living . . .

J. ALECK YORK Montreal

Sir:

So one spinster snapped back at Kinsey that men are "prancing, leering goats," eh? Well, one prancing and leering bachelor--until a spinster married me--snaps back that the female population still is a lovely bunch of goatherds.

JACK PEERS Salt Lake City

Sir:

My congratulations to Artzybasheff for the motif he illustrated so appropriately on Dr. Kinsey's bow tie.

CARL H. DUCKER Baltimore

Republican Egghead

Sir:

For a while, last fall, I had it all straight in my head that an egghead was no Republican, and vice versa. Now you write up [Aug. 17] this fellow [Massachusetts' Governor] Herter, who sounds like a right guy to me, and if ever I heard an egghead described, to the life, it's Herter. The fellow reads books, understands art, thinks and is a Republican . . .

ROBY WENTZ Los Angeles

Sir:

A polite but hearty thank-you from this citizen of Massachusetts whose Governor Herter you honored . . . Herter is giving this state new hope . . . and richly deserves your kind words.

DAVID A. LURENSKY Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Sir:

. . . You told of how Governor Herter received word of the tornado that struck our city . . . "He drove to the scene of the rescue operations (without notifying his press secretary). Worcester's mayor was in England. Governor Herter walked into the city hall in the middle of the night, found the council in complete confusion. He calmly restored order, etc." . . . The governor arrived to find .he council not in confusion but in orderly special session called by the acting mayor . . . GEORGE A. WELLS

City Councilor Worcester

The Sacred Cod

Sir:

Mrs. Christian A. Herter would recognize Artist Baker's excellent cover drawing of her great governor-husband; Solomon Willard would recognize, down to the last granite alock, the Bunker Hill Monument he designed ; and Mr. Bulfinch would praise Bakr's work on our Stafe Capitol; but no son of the Commonwealth could ever accept that dried-up thing Baker conjured up as a codfish! Ernest Hamlin Baker should change his fish market . . . His caudal fin, dorsal fins, maxillary, eye, missing barbel, etc., have turned our Sacred Cod into a hunk of gurry.

KEN GIERINGER

Boston

Artist Baker's model was Boston's own Sacred Cod, which hangs high in the house of representatives in the State Capitol.--ED.

At Large on a Barge

Sir:

Three days bread & water for your Pentagon correspondent ... for calling the "Air Force Navy" a flotilla of admirals' gigs [TIME, Aug. 24]. Any boot knows that: The captain rides in a gig The admiral rides in a barge It doesn't go a damn bit faster, but it makes the old bastard feel large.

LIEUT. CMDR. PICKETT LUMPKIN LIEUT. EDMUND L. CASTILLO

Falls Church, Va.

Ex-King Coal

Sir:

Re TIME'S [Aug. 17] "Crisis in Coal": as an old, 50-year retired coal miner . . . I want to comment ... In preparation for World War II we in the bituminous coal industry--which was and is the greatest source of power to win the war, did not, as did the steel, aluminum, rubber industries, etc., go to the Federal Government to develop and build their plants . . . No, we took our own capital or by private borrowing developed our properties so that we supplied all the coal, with no shortages, that our country needed . . . But the main and vital thing your article forgot was this: it is not so vital that coal is being produced and sold below the cost of production; the important thing is that by destructive competition millions of tons of coal are annually being destroyed . . .

Congress [should] enact legislation to prevent the sale of bituminous coal below the cost of production.

CHARLES DORRANCE

Syosset, N.Y.

Where, Indeed?

Sir:

Re your [Aug. 10] item on Father Leonard Feeney--this is a question for him: If he holds that salvation is impossible for non-Catholics, and if he himself is no longer a Catholic because of his excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church, where ... is he going?

C. D. COOPER Arlington, Va.

Highway Tragedy

You showed shockingly poor taste in publishing the [Aug. 17] picture of a child crying at the scene of an auto accident in which his mother's bloody face can be seen. The picture serves no constructive purpose whatever, and is only an excuse for sensationalism.

JOYCE S. SCHWARTZ New York City

Sir:

Bouquets to TIME for its picture . . . Showing motorists and their passengers the results of accidents is the only route to safer driving on our roads. America needs to see more of the bloody slaughter that occurs daily to our friends and relatives but "can never happen to me--I'm a safe driver."

FRANK N. ANSEL Norfolk, Va.

Cars, Plain & Fancy

SIR:

YOUR [AUG. 24] STORY ON MAGSAYSAY CAMPAIGN MAY GIVE MISLEADING IMPRESSION THAT I OWN AN AIR-CONDITIONED CADILLAC LIMOUSINE. THE CAR IS OWNED BY MY FRIEND EMILIO GONZALES, WHO WAS ON HIS WAY TO PAMPANGA TO LISTEN TO MEETING. DUE STORMY WEATHER I ACCEPTED OFFER RIDE. I AM STILL A POOR MAN WITH SECONDHAND 1947 CAR.

MAGSAYSAY

MANILA, P.I.

Big Rock

Sir:

This is to inform you that James E. Murphy of San Francisco, who has recently been appointed head of Citizens for Eisenhower [TIME, Aug. 10], is a native of Little Rock, Ark. I resent the fact that TIME repeatedly ignores Little Rock whenever a native son deserves honorable mention: but let someone who lived in Little Rock only a few months rob a bank or commit murder and you manage to bring Little Rock into the article.

MRS. LEE O. ROGERS Little Rock, Ark.

Personal Portrait

Sir:

I enjoyed the very warm and personal portrait [Aug. 10] of Shirley Booth immensely. It was almost as if Miss Booth were telling the story herself.

FRED MORGAN Cleveland, Ohio

Sir:

... I feel you were a little hard on Come Back, Little Sheba's New York run. It lasted 190 performances instead of 90, as you stated.

WILLIAM INGE New York City

History in Granite

Sir:

Re the proposed monument, "The Hall of History" (TiME, Aug. 17): "Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?"--Henry David Thoreau.

The only monument worth building . . . is a better world in which to live. History has proven that nations that build great monuments to themselves are on the brink of decadence. Furthermore--contrary to what our rose-colored history books would have us believe--our history, in general, is far from glorious.

GEORGE A. YERKES c/o Fleet Post Office New York City

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