Good Prophet

Sir:

Last July, when all the Wall Street brokers were bearish, you quoted in "Time Clock" [July 13] Analyst Washington Dodge as predicting a big bull market in 1954. It looks as if he should receive kudos. Do you know what he thinks of the market now that it has crossed 300 as he said it would?

WALTER R. BURTON Fairview, N.J.

P: Analyst Dodge's comment: it's "going considerably higher."--ED.

Protestant Architect

Sir:

. . . Pitney Van Dusen has been a friend of mine for many years, and I want to commend you heartily upon an excellent cover" story [April 19] ... It combined the ecumenical and theological movements of our time with the human interest, biographical data of a single individual. . . (THE REV.) CLAYTON T. GRISWOLD New York City

Sir:

. . . To describe Dr. Van Dusen in terms of a business executive, leading the "fragmented and busy life of a corporation president," is to present us with a picture of less than half the man . . . Your article might lend support to the misconception of those who--particularly in Europe--think American Protestantism is too much preoccupied with the business and administrative aspects of the church's life. . .

WILFRID GRENVILLE-GREY

New Haven, Conn.

H-Bomb & Consequences

Sir:

Your cover story on the H-bomb [April 12] was superb, not only for the style in which it was written, but especially for the analysis of the moral problems involved (or not involved). . .

JOAN O. FALCONER Rome

Sir:

TIME'S article . . . reads like a scene from an Orwellian nightmare. More and more, responsible people are coming to realize that the U.S. is becoming just as great a threat to civilization as the Soviet Union when men like Dr. Edward Teller and Lewis Strauss are allowed to play God with the H-bomb . . .

WILLIAM JAMES HALL Cobden, Ont.

Sir:

In your article . . . you describe the reaction to the explosions in terms of public alarm and handwringing. Here in the Pacific proving ground, you would find people from two laboratories working together effectively and in friendship. Of these two laboratories, Los Alamos scientific laboratory is senior. . . You mention only the junior partner, the Livermore branch of the University of California Radiation Laboratory, with which I am connected. . . You gave to our laboratory the kind of publicity which is most welcome . . . but you did not mention the great accomplishments with which Los Alamos is starting its second decade of existence. The spirit on this island is a spirit of cooperation, modesty and awe in face of the forces of nature, which we are trying to explore for the defense of our country to the best of our ability.

EDWARD TELLER Eniwetok

Sir:

. . . We hear that our enemies spend much money and effort in their search for military information. How much they could save by simply subscribing to TIME . . . and reading your article, "The Making of the H-Bomb." Not very long ago, you showed a pictorial and written description of the atomic submarine [TIME, Feb. 15]. Is it right that you should indulge in such practices?

G. B. LANDA Ormond Beach, Fla.

P: The basic principles TIME described are no secret to scientists anywhere--including Russia.--ED.

Sir:

Just for kicks, what did the papers say when they first heard of poison gas in World War I? ...

PETER B. SMITH San Francisco

P: After they first used poison gas early in 1915, the Germans claimed it was no more "barbarous" than shrapnel;

U.S. editorials varied. For example, the New York Tribune: "If poisonous gases can be used in warfare, the way is opened to a general relapse to ancient methods of savagery." The Washington Post: ". . . Since all the nations at war have violated some compact or other . . . suffocation by gas is as decent a method of murder as blowing up trenches by mines, torpedoing a vessel or dropping bombs from an airship."--ED.

In the Reynolds Manner

Sir:

In your March 1 Art section you referred to a painting of a woman's head "attributed to Joshua Reynolds . . . Former Gallery Director Alvan Eastman thinks the actual painter was one Angelica Kauffmann." This is a very casual way of dismissing one of the only two women artists ever to become R.A.S. Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), though she may be thought to have had some shallowness of character, had depth in her work, and her great application to her craft was truly remarkable . . . There are . . . points of similarity in the styles of Reynolds and Kauffmann, who were very close friends and may often have compared notes, as she posed for him on several occasions (see cut) . . .

DESMOND HILL Brighton, England.

Sir:

In your article . . . the views of Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt were given on the permanent collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. It is only fair to state that, as the former director of that gallery on a three-year contract from November 1950 to November 1953, I arrived at approximately the same conclusions and last October handed Dr. Eckhardt my written report . . .

ALVAN EASTMAN Brookline, Mass.

The Bishop & the Senator

Sir:

... I was so upset at the spectacle of Cardinal Spellman and Senator McCarthy at a recent reception in New York that I began to question my lifelong connection and acceptance of the Roman Catholic religion . . . More power to you for giving so much space in your April 19 issue to the ringing denunciation of Rabblerouser McCarthy by Bishop Sheil ...

WILLIAM T. WHITE Staten Island, N.Y.

Sir:

It is a sad occasion for a Catholic when he reads of Bishop Sheil's attack ... As for America being in danger of losing its sense of humor, well, I--with my experience of living under Fascism and Communism--have lost mine a time ago. And so did almost a half of the world's population ... As for "a monstrous perversion of morality," Bishop Sheil should have asked some of the G.I.s tortured in the Chinese P.W. camps or some of the priest refugees for advice . . .

ANDREW ELIAS New York City

Nurse! Nurse!

Sir:

. . . "The hospital in Houston has 48 registered nurses and 66 aides; it needs more than twice as many, and where they will come from nobody knows [TIME, April 12]." To many of us Jamaican girls this sounds quite fantastic. Most of us who chose nursing as our career prefer to study abroad . . . but most of us have to work, sometimes years before we are able to pay our way to get there, and it is incredible to think that our American sisters "have a silver spoon in their mouths but seem too lazy to lift it" . . .

L. NEMBHARD Jamaica, B.W.I.

Sir:

You mentioned all the reasons for the nurse shortage but the real one: money! Almost any girl straight out of high school can earn as much as a sales clerk or secretary as a registered nurse can after three years of education during which she pays tuition . . .

ANNE RUBIN, R.N. Pittsburgh

Sir:

If you want a nurse, marry one--I did. Let the hospital administrators review the employment conditions of "general duty" nurses. The pay? It stinks. The hours? Like those of a policeman or a burglar. Is the work physically strenuous? Very often . . . Can they strike for improved conditions? No! They are engaged in the business of saving lives. It wouldn't be cricket.

M. KLASS Arlington, Va.

Reds in the Movies

Sir:

As president of Associazione Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche ed Affini, and speaking on behalf of the Italian motion-picture industry, I find it necessary to advise you that the paragraph dealing with the Italian motion-picture industry [". . . Of the country's 14 leading film producers, four were Communists and four more fellow travelers" --TIME, March 29] is totally inaccurate. No Italian motion-picture industrialists belong to political organizations of the extreme left. Furthermore, ANICA has been able to categorically demonstrate that the Italian motion-picture industry has never had relationships of a financial nature with political organizations in general, and particularly with those of the extreme left.

EITEL MONACO Rome

P: TIME erred through an error in translation, should have said directors, not producers.--ED.

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