The Land of the Turtle

Sir:

In the March 19 issue, you made it quite plain that Kefauver's campaign in Minnesota never got off the ground and Adlai was flying high. Results indicate the reverse situation existed. Hasn't TIME learned any lessons in observing political campaigns since 1948?

GALEN B. BAUGHER

Hurley, N.Y.

Sir:

You failed to take into account that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong--there is always the turtle, huh?

RALPH A. O'NEILL

New York City

Sir:

The next time it might be well for your political reporter to browse around among the voters instead of spending his time with the machine politicians.

RALPH B. EATON

Philadelphia

Dark Image (Contd.)

Sir:

For a change, I think your March 26 article on the South is fair and gives both sides. Heretofore, you have apparently made a studied effort to glorify the Negro and help ram him down the throats of white Southerners as their social equal.

MARTIN COLFAX

Coral Gables, Fla.

Sir:

We in the South greatly admire James Eastland. Millions of Southerners aren't going to be dictated to by "nine old political termites" or the N.A.A.C.P. The South has just begun to fight.

FRANKLIN JONES JR.

Richmond

Sir:

We cannot expect semieducated, insecure, bigoted people to select a representative better than themselves. If Mississippi were owned by another nation, we would declare it "underdeveloped," send it Point 4, and make vague promises of eventual self-determination.

WILLIAM MCWILLIAM

Cleveland

Sir:

It is always a pleasure to us folks to hear the screams of anguish from the Communists and carpetbaggers at the mention of Eastland's name. Tell us some more about him. We like him, and he certainly stands for what we think.

EAVES ALLISON

Fort Pierce, Fla.

Sir:

On the whole, your article is not an unfair appraisal. But when you say "Eastland is today one of the most widely disliked men in the U.S.," you could with equal truth have added that he is also today one of the most widely loved men in the South.

B. L. Moss

Soso, Miss.

Sir:

Your cover was degraded by that nauseating, odious, ignoble, villainous picture of that venomous, Negro-hating "gentleman" known as James O. Eastland. That imperialistic background in the picture was hideous and signified the serfdom of the South.

S/SGT. L. PICKNEY

A/2C P. V. BYNUM

A/2C S. J. WILLIAMS

Sandia Base

Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Sir:

It was altogether fitting to see the discredited Confederate flag beside Senator Eastland as you picture him raising the clenched fist of racial bigotry in a speech in Alabama.

FRANK J. ELLIS

Devon, Pa.

"Oh, Yes . . ."

Sir:

In your March 5 remarks on the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute and the fact that it "was made possible by a grant from Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.," your music critic added the comment: "She did not get her money's worth." May I add my comment--"Oh, yes, she did!" And what is even better, music lovers seem to be getting theirs.

MRS. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.

New York City

The Upper Lip

Sir:

Your article on Champagne Charlie [March 26] gave me quite a lift and guffaw. However, your adjective "military" as applied to Charlie's mustache missed the bull's-eye a bit; perhaps your writer is a youngster who doesn't happen to have seen Kaiser Wilhelm's mustache.

This writer, then a teenager, well remembers his residence and travels in Germany at that time, and how he had to resort to extreme measures to wear as a subtle flattery to the Germans the Schnurrbart, made so popular by the Kaiser. Each and every night at bedtime, one soaked the mustache with a dressing (which hardened when dry), then applied the Schnurrbart binder made of netlike material, shaped to go under the nose and extend well toward the ears, held flat and tight by elastic bands behind the ears. After applying, each side was lifted in turn, and the wet mustache combed into the flat spread-eagle shape [see cut] which was the reward all next day for the rather tortuous all-night care not to misplace the binder.

WARREN H. WILKINSON

Jacksonville Beach, Fla.

Sir:

It is damned insulting to spend over a column on Champagne Charlie and not find space to chronicle such an outstanding British aviation achievement as the record-breaking flight of Britain's F.D.-2. Had the feat been performed in an American jet, I am sure we should have had the pilot's face beaming at us from your cover.

T. D. GRIFFIN-BEALE

London

P: Britain's Fairey Delta 2 jet broke the official world's record previously held by a U.S. Air Force F-100C. The speed: 1,132 m.p.h.--ED.

Storm Over Cyprus (Contd.)

Sir:

What next can we expect from our kissing cousins, the English? Possibly another Makarios? Or more of this heinous, hogwash courtship of "K," "B" and Malenkov? Maybe it is high time for us to make a new inventory of our allies.

L. M. ARCHER

Olean, N.Y.

Sir:

I was interested to read your comments on Cyprus in "The U.S. & Enosis" [March 26]: "Privately, the U.S. attitude could be summed up in a question: What do we do about an ally who frisks nuns and deports an archbishop?" I would be equally interested in knowing what the U.S. would do about nuns who carry concealed weapons and an archbishop who preaches sedition?

JOHN F. B. AMSDEN

Montreal

Sir:

As a former classmate of Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus, allow me to congratulate you for offering such a wonderful and true biography of the exiled archbishop [March 19].

CHRISTOPHER CHRISTODOULOU

Jersey City

Sir:

The arrest of the archbishop, and his exile, should have significant effects in Europe (especially in France), the Middle East and in the Kremlin. The exile symbolizes, within the web or fabric of cold war politics, a new British policy and resolution. Europe might accept British moral leadership, because Britain does not convey the impression of dominant power that is conveyed to Europe by the U.S. Europe genuinely fears America, although that might be hard to realize, but they will learn to appreciate the relationship with America correctly. Meanwhile, the declaration of Washington, the removal of Makarios together with Washington's attitude thereto, as partly political and partly symbolic (having a psychological effect), are milestones in the recovery of the West.

JOHN UARK

Renfrewshire, Scotland

Looking for Bridey

Sir:

I deeply and sincerely resent the type of journalism practiced in the March 19 Press section; although I have no connection with the principals of the "Bridey Murphy" story--except that I am acquainted with Bill Barker--I do know that all means have been taken to prevent the publication of the real name of "Ruth Simmons." TIME disregarded the plea for privacy voiced by Mr. Barker in the Denver Post and, in the very sarcastic manner that seems to have invaded your fine magazine, told the whole story like a schoolboy at a Peeping Tom session.

H. JACKSON CLARK

Durango, Colo.

P: TIME brings all things.--ED.

Sir:

Animals have a memory but no intellect. Man has both, but the memory is an organic faculty, not a spiritual one. The inconsistencies in the Bridey Murphy revelations are understandable. Even if Ruth Simmons (Virginia Tighe) had lived before as Bridey, the only things she could remember are those which happened to her as the present Ruth Simmons.

MARC A. LAFRAMBOISE

Detroit

Sir:

Only morons would pay money for a book based on such untruth and rot. The Bible, the best seller of all time, sets forth in no uncertain terms the nature of man, and nowhere in its entirety can be found a reference to reincarnation.

J. E. ELROD

Charlotte, N.C.

Sir:

Thank you for the article on the true "discovery" of Bridey Murphy. No matter how hard we try, we still must face the inescapable: ". . . . It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment."

MARGARET E. EASTMAN

Dennisport, Mass.

Arabs' Big Brother

Sir:

I read with interest your March 26 article "Big Brother." The people of the Arab world, from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean, are entitled to their freedom and liberty. To me, what Nasser is trying to achieve now is something more or less similar to your Monroe Doctrine. I believe that he should be credited rather than criticized for his stand.

EZZ-EL-DIN ALI MOUSTAFA

Minneapolis

Sir:

The malevolence of Radio Egypt is shocking. The French have radio transmitters all over Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco; why are Britain and France sitting around like simple ninnies sucking their thumbs? I am no expert, but I have had some slight contact with these matters; it does not require a decision in Parliament to overpower a malicious radio transmitter.

F. H RILE

Commander, U.S.N.

Alexandria, Va.

The Catholic Family

Sir:

Your review of Jesuit Father John L. Thomas' book [March 26] deserves close scrutiny and high praise by Roman Catholics outside the U.S. It certainly offers a great challenge, inducing us to pray hard for them in the U.S. . . .

DOMINIC N. TAGAKI

Society of St. Vincent de Paul

Tokyo

Sir:

I was pleased to read the excerpts from The American Catholic Family. I have independently come to the same conclusions concerning orthodox Judaism in the U.S. I am sure that Father Thomas' conclusions will be a valuable aid to the clergy of all religions.

MORTON SUMMER

President

Student Organization of Yeshiva

New York City

Buttressing the Sags

Sir:

Lilly Dache's Glamour Book [March 26] admonishes the disrobed woman to ". . . stand in front of a full-length mirror and look at yourself. Be brave, for this is going to be a shock." But what warning does she give "Husband: see also men," who stands with "hands, shaking from nervousness"? Well may Lilly stand, as your picture shows, with her right hand supporting "bulges in the wrong places," etc. I suggest she read her book and buttress the sags.

SAMUEL ROSEN

Detroit

Sir:

Although I haven't read her "definitive" book, I will venture to say that the bulge around Lilly's middle could be corrected by diet, exercise and a well-fitted girdle.

HARRIET STOLOROW

Jackson, Mich.

Men of Howard

Sir:

Your March 19 story of Mordecai Johnson and Howard University is a bright chapter in the history of American education. You can add to the list of distinguished alumni of Howard the name of Charles Dunbar Sherman, Finance Minister of Liberia and Economic Adviser.

PAUL M. LIMBERT

Secretary General The World Alliance of Y.M.C.A.s

Geneva

Sir:

My thanks to you and your associates for the article. I am very glad that you mentioned Assistant Secretary Edward Finney. Preceding him and associated with him in the undertaking to secure the substantive law signed by President Coolidge was the Honorable Louis C. Cramton. Mr. Cramton is now 75 years of age, but his friendship for the Negro people continues. What he and Judge Finney have done for Howard University and for the Negro people has been a great expression of duty to their God and to their country.

MORDECAI W. JOHNSON

President

Howard University

Washington, D.C.

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