The Red Dragoon
Sir:
The May 9 article on Marshal Zhukov was most interesting and informative . . . Zhukov's path is thoroughly paved with the maimed and dying soldiers he found so expendable . . . and I believe we would do well to weigh any friendship that holds life and moral obligation so cheaply.
The repetition of the vow Alexander Nevsky made 800 years ago may have been made by Zhukov to save Moscow, but Nevsky meant it for all of Russia and the lands he took. The master plan of the Soviet Union dictators calls for the domination of the entire world, and it is a wise leader in the free countries who never loses sight of that plan. And time is on Russia's side.
K. R. PETRE Santa Ana, Calif.
Sir:
TIME said: "... A strange figure among the close-shaven, monocled Prussians, but Zhukov could outfence any of them." Good old Zhukov! I served, 1905-18, as a cavalry officer in the Prussian army. We did not shave our heads, leaving this to Tartars and Mongols. As to monocles, they were the exception . . . Fencing was neither part of an officer's drill nor his pastime. However, it really does not matter whether Zhukov fenced those Prussian officers in or out .. . Shaven-headed, monocles, swashbuckling, heel-clicking, the familiar good old cliches . . . the Erich von Stroheim type created by those smart gentlemen in Hollywood . . .
OSTHEIM (Count von Ostheim) Palm Beach, Fla.
Brass, Beer & Ivy
Sir:
Concerning your May 9 report of student reaction to tighter campus regulations at William and Mary, my school, Marquette University, has no beer on campus, has chaperons for every fraternity party and has close administrative control of student publications. I heartily recommend Marquette to prospective students, and I offer my congratulations to President Alvin Chandler and a question to his school's "students": What is college for?
CARL SCHRANK
Milwaukee
Memorable Meetings
Sir:
Manet's Lunch on the Grass [May 9] and his arrangement of the three figures is even more classical than he probably ever suspected. Raimondi's or Raphael's Judgment of Paris is lifted directly from a Roman late 2nd century A.D. sarcophagus or coffin relief of similar subject, which since the late 16th century has been walled up in a prominent place on the garden facade of the Villa Medici in Rome. This sarcophagus relief influenced the work of other artists who saw it before or after its arrival in that garden still much frequented by painters. For example, Rubens used it as the basis for his celebrated painting The Horrors of War, now in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
CORNELIUS C. VERMEULE Department of Fine Arts University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. What to Call the Citizens
Sir:
Reading TIME, I get smarter and smarter. From your May 9 issue, for instance, I learn that people who live in Glasgow are Glaswegians and the residents of Liverpool are Liverpudlians. You New Yukrians have research sources that are strange and wonderful. Selah!
BASIL MARTIN Duncan, S.C.
Sir:
... It occurs to me that, along with Liverpudlians and Glaswegians, there must also exist in the world those whom TIME would call Aixioms, Beiruters, Timbuktutus and Zanzibarbarians.
MARTHA BARKOFF
New Orleans
--I How about: Nomebodies, Ogdeni-zens, Berlinmates, Oslocals, Praguematics, Warsawfuls or Honolululus?--ED.
Vaccine Crisis
SIR:
APPRECIATED YOUR OBJECTIVE REPORTING ON "VACCINE CRISIS." TIME WISELY ADVISED AWAITING THE FINAL VERDICT. TIME'S FOOT SLIPPED, THOUGH, ON STATING THAT IN ADDITION TO SHIPPING VACCINE FOR FOUNDATION, CUTTER "WAS ONE OF THOSE THAT HAD SHIPPED OUT A FEW THOUSAND DOSES ... AS A 'COME-ON' TO WIN DOCTORS' GOOD WILL" . . . ALL COMMERCIAL SHIPMENTS WERE MADE AFTER NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RELEASE TO CUTTER REGIONAL OFFICES EXACTLY IN LINE WITH THEIR PERCENTAGE OF OUR SALES OF PEDIATRIC IMMUNIZING AGENTS LAST YEAR. THEY IN TURN FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS TO SHIP TO WHOLESALE AND PRESCRIPTION PHARMACIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR PREVIOUS CALL FOR OUR PEDIATRIC IMMUNIZING AGENTS. STILL BELIEVE THIS ONLY METHOD FOR INSURING FAIR DISTRIBUTION TO PEDIATRICIANS AND GENERAL PRACTITIONERS WHO HAVE DEPENDED ON CUTTER IMMUNIZING AGENTS. DOCTORS WHO KNOW OF OUR METHOD OF ALLOCATION BELIEVE IT WAS PROPER . . .
F. A. CUTTER --CUTTER LABORATORIES BERKELEY, CALIF.
Billy Graham's Big Show
Sir:
J. B. Priestley has the audacity to attack Billy Graham, America, and his own British public [May 9]. Never have I seen such an illogical and prejudiced article ... It seems that Mr. Priestley puts himself up as the master psychologist when he says so bluntly, "The reason for Billy's success is not Britons' hunger for religion, but their hunger for a show." I would like to ask Mr. Priestley if he took the time or effort to interview those who attended the campaigns, and especially those who made decisions ... I happen to be one of those who made my decision during one of Graham's campaigns . . .
MAURICE HANNA
Beirut, Lebanon Sir: I am still chuckling at Priestley's comments . . . John Boynton Priestley and I went to different schools in Bradford, Yorkshire ; you know, where the pudding comes from. His evaluation of all that religious conversion is as correct as it is shrewd and witty. I, too, know the "hunger for a show" of the British people--and why confine it to the British anyway? As for that Irish newspaper which said that Billy had taken Ireland by storm even in absentia: phooey! MAUD CHEGWIDDEN San Francisco Sir: If Graham goes for orange juice, the unpriestly Priestley is steeped in dill-pickle juice. This cynic is not one of those Britons whose minds "are wide open as well as being empty." His mind, though empty, is closed.
DAVE MACPHERSO. Long Beach, Calif.
The Race Is Not to the Swift
Sir:
Your May 9 story of Frank Swift is inspiring in these times when being voluntarily unemployed is looked upon virtually as a crime (even in the case of so-called emancipated women). I have been trying to avoid steady, secure employment (which is very boring) for many years, and I hope I am as successful at it as Frank has been.
BETTINA SCHUTT University Park, Pa.
Rome & Hollywood
SIR:
. . . THE UNIDENTIFIED DEMILLE "COWORKER" IMMEDIATELY BESIDE ME IN YOUR MAY 9 PICTURE IS THE ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER,
DR. GAETANO MARTINO . . . BEHIND MISS ANNE BAXTER IS MRS. MARTINO. IT WOULD BE AN
HONOR TO HAVE THEM AS "COWORKERS" ;HOWEVER, THE FOREIGN MINISTER HAS NOT YET SIGNED A PARAMOUNT CONTRACT, NOR IS IT LIKELY THAT WE COULD DIVERT HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES FROM THE MOMENTOUS AREAS IN WHICH HE NOW MAKES HIS CONTRIBUTION TOWARD WORLD PEACE.
CECIL B. DEMILLE
HOLLYWOOD
Sir:
I just saw the piece you wrote about Cecil and myself. You were very kind, and I appreciate it ...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
Los Angeles
Overcrowding
Sir:
Why do you frequently give space to beating the Roman Catholic Church over the head for deluded reasons? Every time the world's population goes up beyond the point TIME finds bearable, the church is to blame . . . Catholicism is always the butt for those lovers of mankind who want to save the human race by eliminating people . . . Now I see TIME gives a pulpit to one of the field marshals in the van of such homophiles: William Vogt. His letter of May 9 raises the profession of anti-Catholicism to the virulent heights of people-hating achieved earlier by the anti-Semites.
BLAIR BOLLES Paris
Sin & Sweden (Contd.)
Sir: What sort of nation will we have to deal with when this generation of young Swedes grows up and takes over the affairs of their country? ... It seems to me that sex is running amuck with the human race everywhere these days . . . Just think what a happier world it would be if young people could marry for mental affinity without the excessive pressure of "body urges." Sex is really a very selfish urge, and sexual satisfaction can become an intense craving--it is the devil's playground, and I really think the world would be a finer place without it MRS. JOAN JONKER-FISKE Riversdale, Cape Province, South Africa
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