An Eye for the Great

Sir:

After having Mr. Truman all over your Aug. 13 cover, I hope you will soon have our President on the cover. This great country knows a great man at a glance -and it isn't Mr. Truman.

ALINE LIEBENTHAL New York City

Observing the Conventions

Sir:

The only improvement that can be made to an Ike-Nixon ticket would be a Nixon-Ike ticket, with a guarantee that Mr. Stassen is on a permanent leave of absence. Stassen has only one argument, which is: Nixon is a real Republican and he has made Democrats angry. This year the liberal voters do not like Nixon; why should they? If they did, they would not be liberal. I am not using liberal in its old sense, but rather in the modern sense, which has come to mean a pink.

BRUCE M. SHELDEN Ekalaka, Mont.

Sir:

TIME'S apparent preference for an Eisenhower-Nixon ticket is commendable, but its patronizing treatment of a countermovement is scarcely so. If Nixon's renomination jeopardizes the election of a Republican Congress, then his replacement by Governor Herter (or some other respected public servant) must be seriously considered.

GEORGE H. ROSE

Cambridge, Mass.

Sir:

When I saw -or rather, smelled -TIME'S Aug. 6 attack on Harold Stassen, I thought I had accidentally picked up a copy of Confidential.

NED KIEFER Del Mar, Calif.

Sir:

It is as childish to refer to Mr. Stassen as "Childe Harold" as it is to call the Vice President "Tricky Dicky." Shame !

ROBERT DOWNING New York City

Faith & Politics

Sir:

Your Aug. 6 "Can a Catholic Win?" makes it hard to decide what is more obnoxious-the idea of some politicians that Catholics will automatically vote for a Catholic, or the notion of some Protestants that the patriotism of Catholics is somehow diluted by their loyalty to the church.

BROTHER FIDELIAN La Salle College Philadelphia

Sir:

It's certainly a big mistake to take a report of a survey conducted by Roman Catholics at its face value, especially when that survey and report is about Roman Catholics, and on a subject dear to their hearts-gaining control of the U.S. The Roman Catholic Church is an international conspiracy of totalitarians, far more dangerous to this country than are the Communists.

CHARLES H. McGuiRE Brooklyn

Canal Crisis

Sir:

The Suez Canal crisis certainly involves moral law. A question that might be asked of all of the parties involved in the matter is: Why are you afraid to take this matter to the U.N.?

HAROLD V. SEMLING JR. Washington, D.C.

Sir:

Nasser told us that we Americans may choke to death on "our fury." We don't have to repay him with the same -this job will be accomplished on Comrade Nasser by the Bulganin-Khrushchev gang (they are experts in choking).

R. FINE Long Branch, N.J.

Sir:

It is impossible not to feel some degree of sympathy with a man (however mistaken TIME may believe him to be) who seeks the deliverance of his country from a foreign yoke.

HUGH SHELDON Piedmont, Calif.

Sir:

The Suez Canal is the lifeline of the Middle East. Let's show some of our famous world leadership and present a united front to Nasser and cohorts.

JOE D. REID JR. Lima, Ohio

Tragedy at Sea

Sir:

The deeply moving Andrea Doria story recalls an almost identical tragedy that occurred on Jan. 23, 1909, when the outbound steamship Republic was rammed in a heavy fog off Nantucket by the inbound Italian immigrant ship Florida. Before the Republic sank, her passengers were transferred to the badly damaged Florida, then to the Baltic, and brought back to New York. It was the first time that wireless was used [by the Republic] to bring help to a stricken ship. I am 80 years old. My husband and I were on the Republic, bound for a two-month honeymoon in Italy when the tragedy occurred.

EMMA E. SNYDER San Diego

Sir:

TIME'S Aug. 6 story on the Andrea Doria disaster left me transfixed. The facts were the same as those handled by other publica tions, but the story emerged alive and tender, in a way that tore right into me.

PAUL W. HOLTZ Haworth, N.J.

Sir:

Very fine wrap-up of the Andrea Doria-Stockholm disaster, but would like to point out that the point where the liner was hit was not the starboard "quarter" but the waist. The quarter is the stern section of a ship.

LAMAR HOLT Editor U.S. Coast Guard Magazine Washington, B.C.

Sir:

It was with interest that I read of the proposed congressional investigation of the collision of two foreign-flag vessels outside U.S. territorial waters [;Aug 6]. If one is to project the righteous trumpetings of Representative Bonner on the subject of protecting the American traveler abroad, will the death of a U.S. citizen in a train wreck in Buenos Aires necessitate a congressional investigation of the Argentine State Railways?

BRUCE GORDON Tuxedo Park, N.Y.

Sister Act

Sir:

We did enjoy your sparkling July 30 story on our musical play, The Complaining Angel. The mother of one of the pictured nuns cabled from Europe to say she saw it in your foreign edition. You implied that a Poor Clare nun wrote the lyrics you quoted. These and the indirect quotes used, e.g., "limp gimp," "dimpled wimple" came from the versatile playwright-professor, John D. Tumpane.

WILLIAM J. ELSEN Department of Speech University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Ind.

Sir:

I'm about as far removed from Roman Catholicism as one can be (Unitarian), but I am a Christian, and was appalled with those un-Christly goings on in The Complaining Angel at the University of Notre Dame. Sis ters, get thee to a nunnery.

V. FREDERICK VEADER New York City

Who Is Who

Sir:

I am writing to correct what is an understandable error under the circumstances, but nonetheless embarrassing to us. I refer to the statement in TIME, July 30, that Jackson Martindell "last month won control of Who's Who." A summary judgment decree was handed down in the Cook County circuit court that Jackson Martindell and the American Institute of Management was entitled to acquire 67% of the stock of this corporation under a contested agreement. This ruling was immediately appealed to the higher courts, which appeal automatically stays Martindell from acting under the circuit court decree. Therefore and he has not, in actuality, "won control." and has no hand whatsoever in the operation of this corporation or Who's Who.

WHEELER SAMMONS JR. President Marquis - Who's Who, Inc. Chicago

Fuss About AFUS

Sir:

We have been reading the July 23 letters concerning AFUS with considerable interest. It seems that the Marine Corps has been made the villain because some of us are opposed to an AFUS. Some of your readers consider us egotistical and self-centered and not the supermen we think ourselves to be. As to the critics in the Air Force, I have no sympathy for them. From what I have seen of airmen, they are part-time civilians who wear their uniform not too proudly. They have as much discipline as a kindergarten class, and most of the time act the same.

(SGT.) J. D. TREANTOS JR., U.S.M.C. (SGT.) A. H. HILL, U.S.M.G. Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Pure Fiction

Sir:

Any author is grateful for so generous a review as TIME [July 30] gave my Straight and Narrow Path. But as for the final paragraph, linking the novel to my own lawsuit, I very much wish to say that my book is pure fiction, and the place, events and circumstances wholly imaginary. My experience served me only in points of legal form or procedure.

HONOR TRACY Killiney Village Dublin, Ireland

The Split-Level Yanks

Sir:

TIME, July 9, says "Mary McDonald insisted they [;her son] remember one thing: they were lace-curtain Irish, not shanty Irish." I were have long noticed that you show a snobbish obsession with such offensive epithets. I am well acquainted with Ireland, the land of my ancestors, but I never heard these sneering distinctions there. I cannot recall TIME'S making similar classifications of U.S. citizens -or isn't there a newsworthy distinction between shanty Yanks and split-level Yanks?

LUIS PATRICIO SULLIVAN Mexico City

Arab Honeymoon Sir:

Thanks I, for too, your was Aug. 13 "Baghdad Honeymoon" I, too, was engaged to an Arab but am no longer, because he was seriously thinking of "going home to Mama." I see things in a new light now and realize how lucky I am.

SHIRLEY BENADERET Detroit

Sir:

Helen Subbagh married a very common variety of lemon found in everyone's home town regardless of religion or nationality. Why so much space devoted to a bad husband just because he is an Arab? My husband is a Moslem Arab from Lebanon ; I also met him at college. He is sober, hardworking, and has not slugged or spat at me. I am neither Moslem nor Arab, but I feel that I am better treated than many wives I know with so-called "Christian" husbands.

MRS. F. ZIND Piney River, Va.

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