Man of the Year
Sir: Didn't one or two sentences in President Eisenhower's U.N. address make him, finally, a last-minute candidate? . . .
RONALD PERRON Lowell, Mass.
Sir: Major General William F. Dean by a long shot.
LAWRENCE RYAN Oshawa, Ont.
Sir: Konrad Adenauer ... It is recognized that West Germany is the key to the economic and political future of Western Europe, and that now includes the U.S. . . . West Germany could have been a powder keg to pro duce chaos . . . and the freedom-loving people of the world owe Adenauer a great deal. My God ! What if another rabble-rouser had come to the top ? ARTHUR H. HASCHE Watertown, S. Dak.
Sir: Let's turn our eyes outside Europe and America for once. There are other continents . . . containing great leaders ... I nominate William Vacanarat Shradrach Tubman, 18th President of Liberia . . . For ten years he has worked quietly to build his country and give it spiritual and moral leadership . . .
HENRY B. COLE Accra, Gold Coast, B.W.A.
Sir: . . . Who gives a damn? J. M. MACKENZIE Hampton, N.J.
Sir: . . . J apan's Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida? . . . He has been heading the Japanese government for more than five years, longer than any other Japanese Prime Minister . . .
HANS E. PRINGSHEIM Tokyo Sir: . . . Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey . . .
JOHN BERTRAM St. Louis Sir: . . . Positively Senator McCarthy.
K. B. BROWN New York City Sir: . . . Anyone but Joe McCarthy.
J. D. COFFEE Sunflower, Kans.
SIR: . . . MAY WE SUGGEST JOSE FERRER? ACTOR, AUTHOR, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, PAINTER . . .
AND A HELLUVA GUY.
NEWBOLD MORRIS JEAN DALRYMPLE JOSEPH KRAMM PHILIP HUSTON NEW YORK CITY Sir: Harry Dexter White, the most controversial corpse of the year.
BETTY GARRETT VOGEL Shreveport, La.
Sir: . . . Thomas E. Dewey, a political states man . . . who has rare courage . . .
B. BLADEN Corpus Christi, Texas Sir: . . . Why not Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi? . . .
A. RADUNZ Versoix, Switzerland Sir: . . . Adlai Stevenson . . .
A. DAHLBERG Miami Sir: . . . The greatest Senator of all time, Robert A. Taft.
ROBERT EMMETT BURNS Worcester, Mass.
Sir: . . . The Unknown Soldier . . .
ROBERT E. LOWY Chicago Sir: . . . Pope Pius XII . . .
Ottawa, Ont. PAUL HARRIS ... I nominate the Notre Dame football team as the No. 1 Stinker of the Year.
R. E. WILLIAMS Lubbock, Texas Sir: . . . Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ...
GEORGE A. HASKINS Greenfield, Mass.
Sir: Joseph Stalin, who by dying provided the No. 1 news event of the year.
FERGUS HORSBURGH Montreal Sir: Who else but the American schoolteacher? ...
HAROLD V. SEMLING JR.
Dover, Del.
Sir: . . . Someone who, year after year, has contributed to the spiritual uplift of a chaotic modern world and who, at 86, still goes on doing it -- Arturo Toscanini.
JOE DERBYSHIRE Salt Lake City Sir: . . . Casey -- Stengel, that is ...
R. M. HOISINGTON Duncan, Okla.
Sir: Sir Winston Churchill, in whose honor I venture to quote the words of Hamlet: "He [is] a man, take him for all in all. I shall never look upon his like again." PETER HENRIK HANSEN Copenhagen Sir: Your choice . . . has us sitting on the edges of our chairs. On the one hand, Joe Mc Carthy does not quite measure up to the high standard that you have set. On the other . . . McCarthyism has this year become the world's top anti-American issue ... at home, our idea of a perfect Roman holiday is to sit before a TV set and watch a McCarthy victim squirm behind the Fifth Amendment.
In that field, he is definitely our Man of the Year ... At idealistic levels, there is, of course, Dr. Kinsey. He has captured the imaginations, and conversations, of our bridge-playing housewives. Whom will you choose ? That we await with a deal of interest.
FRANK BRYAN Groesbeck, Texas P:See TIME, Jan. 4. -- ED.
Death of a Playwright Sir: I should like to express the esthetic pleasure I got from your perceptive appraisal of Eugene O'Neill [TIME, Dec.] ...
HELEN T. GREANY Jersey City
Sir: ... I pity the hack who in the guise of an obituary has tried to cut down Eugene O'Neill to the size of the obit-writer. It is bad enough for the witless and mean-spirited to judge their living betters ; when they cut coffins for the gifted dead to the shape and size of their own malformed souls it is un forgivable.
DUDLEY NICHOLS Los Angeles Sir: . . . The article . . . was written with organ-toned whimsy ... I resent . . . being told that Anna Christie is one of Eugene O'Neill's "worst" plays, and I resent being told that O'Neill ranks just below Shaw and O'Casey as a 20th century dramatist ... I am not privy to your sources . . . but I am of the opinion that neither you nor anyone else is in a position just yet to say which of Eugene O'Neill's plays are the "worst" . . .
GLEN HALEY Burbank, Calif.
Sir: Your article . . . struck me as the most interesting factual biography I have ever read in any magazine. Little did I realize the torment he went through in regard to his family troubles both as a youth and a father. All in all, this fine article left me with nothing wanting, much like some of the immortal O'Neill's writings.
FOSTER L. SPENCER Ellington Air Force Base, Texas
Who's a Sissy? Sir: As a young man whose future lies in the South, I could not help wincing at the words of Georgia's Roy V. Harris re the university newspaper's editorial on segregation [TIME, Dec. . ... Indeed, the regent leaves you wondering just who the "little handful of sissy, misguided squirts" are. Many men, lack ing the moral courage of facing fact squarely, are misguiding themselves and others through a slanted interpretation of the words that all men are the equal creation of God . . .
WILLIAM A. WHITE JR.
Ft. Benning, Ga.
Sir: The picture of and the article about Regent Roy V. Harris of the University of Georgia reminds me of the little poem by Fred Allen: If a boy is big and his brain is small, He can always go to college and play football.
CLARENCE W. PEARSON Mt. Vernon, Ill.
Sir: Harris' outburst . . . places him in a class with Bilbo and Rankin, names the South nor any section can be proud of ...
DURHAM S. TAYLOR Chattanooga
Sir: Guess I'm one of Harris' sissy, misguided squirts. I don't play football, but I do go to college and did put my time in in a rifle company in Korea. While platoon sergeant, I had a colored corporal for a squad leader, and any time a guy such as Corporal Hamp ton can't go where I go, let Brother Harris step up, and this sissy will kick his can.
RICHARD C. ST. JOHN Mankato, Minn.
The Big Smoke Sir: Your article on lung cancer and cigarette smoking [TIME, Nov. 30] states the staggering fact that the people of the U.S. smoke 433 billion cigarettes a year. The ordinary cigarette measures 2 1/4 in., and a little arithmetic shows that if those cigarettes were placed in line in a single strand, they would encircle the earth at the equator 751 times. Thus:
23/4 x 433,000,000,000 ____________________ = 18,793,402
12"x 3' x 1760 yards
miles. The circumference of the earth at the equator is approximately 25,000 miles. So:
18,793,402 __________ = 751. 25,000
HARRY MARLAND Tunbridge Wells, England
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