The Middle East
Sir:
Your March 11 article, "The Watchman of Zion," is an outstanding example of fine journalism. I wish every American could read this article as well as your description of "Nasser; The Other Man."
BENJAMIN R. EPSTEIN New York City
Sir:
How fitting and yet how ironic that your cover portrait of Ben-Gurion with rays of light descending upon his head should remind one of Moses leading Israel out of Egypt.
JACK LENGY
Laramie, Wyo.
Sir:
Wasn't David lucky that there existed no U.N. in his days? He might have been punished for having stood up to Goliath.
EUGENIA F. BELKINE Jerusalem
Sir:
It is becoming more and more difficult to be both an "Eisenhower Republican" and a Jew. If the Administration continues to maintain its present policy of possible sanctions against Israel and just a slap on the wrist towards Nasser, Saud and the other decadent Arab leaders, it will have the unfortunate effect of driving us into the arms of the Democrats.
DAVID LIEBMAN Glencoe, Ill.
Sir:
Before long you Americans will awake with oil in your veins instead of blood. CONRAD ROUSSEAU
Quebec
Sir:
Your Feb. 25 comment on the Middle East, "Even the most loyal supporters of the U.N. have to swallow hard at sanctimonious lectures on morality being delivered by agents of tyrannies," reminds me of the following line from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress: "Saint abroad, and a devil at home."
AMITAVA GUPTA London
Schlesinger's F.D.R.
Sir:
To one who remembers most vividly the agony of the Great Depression, as well as the years of stupidity which preceded it, your March 11 review of The Age of Roosevelt was most interesting. Who wrote it? Herbert Hoover?
T. G. SCHEID JR. Sterling, Ill.
Sir:
Thanks for your review of The Age of Roosevelt--Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s latest. You very properly ask: "But is it history?" Many Harvard graduates wonder how a mere apologist came to occupy the chair of a professor of history on an otherwise distinguished faculty.
WM. A. LINCOLN Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Applying Pressure
Sir:
In reference to the March 4 picture showing Krishna Menon having his blood pressure taken after he collapsed at the U.N.: next time Krishna Menon is asked to pose with his doctor for a picture, he should first remove his coat and roll up his sleeve. I'll be damned if anyone, even an Indian yogi, could hear through all that wool.
HARLAN B. Moss, M.D. Indianapolis
Sir:
The unidentified doctor in your picture is William Maxwell Hitzig of New York City. Dr. Hitzig has numbered many distinguished people among his patients. He was active in the pilgrimage of the 25 "Hiroshima Maidens" to Mount Sinai Hospital for treatment. [TIME, Oct. 24, 1955].
SIGMUND SPAETH New York City
P: Says Dr. Hitzig: "There are unusual circumstances under which it is not feasible to remove the patient's clothing to record, blood pressure. The answer is a diaphragm (not bell) stethoscope appropriately positioned on the elbow. The auscultatory systolic blood pressure in the elbow can be confirmed by inflating the cuff and palpating the radial pulse at the wrist. When Mr. Krishna Menon collapsed at the U.N., I applied my blood pressure cuff on top of his clothing. There was a reading of 220 mm. I confirmed this blood pressure again by palpation of the radial pulse.''--ED.
The Admiral's Scroll
Sir:
A picture accompanying your Feb. 25 story on Admiral Radford shows him standing beside a scroll. This scroll [see cut] was drawn and given to the admiral by President Syngman Rhee. Its Chinese characters say:
"I vow by the sea and the fish and the dragon's tremble; I vow by the mountains and the grass, and the grass and the trees are startled." It is said that our great patriot Admiral Yi Soon Shin had this engraved on his sword during the time he defended Korea from Japanese aggression more than 400 years ago.*
IEL HONG
Foreign Ministry Republic of Korea
Just Waiting for Your Return
Sir:
My gorge rose immediately after reading your Feb. 25 article on patriotic tax songs or "The 1040 Blues." The sample jingles you quoted just about finished me. We have enough solid corn without the Administration deliberately choking us with more. If this kind of approach is tried on me (I always pay my taxes on time), the IRS can go to hell, and I will plead insanity from incessant and uncontrolled brainwash technique. The thought that they even entertained the idea is disgusting.
H. W. CLAYBAUGH
Dallas
Hems & Hawes
Sir:
A fitting sobriquet for TIME [March 4]-honored Christian Dior is, of course, "The Pied Piper of Hemlines."
RICHARD N. HOBSON Crystal Lake, Ill.
Sir:
One year Dior and his cohorts pass the word lo the American fashion industry that sheaths are the thing. Sheaths it is. Madame America fills her closets with sheaths, trims her figure appropriately, then what? Next year she finds she's supposed to zig where she used to zag. What to do? Send off the sheaths to the Salvation Army and engage a masseuse to rearrange her bumps?
MRS. STERLING E. CATHEY Locust Valley, N.Y.
SIR: FASHION IS STILL SPINACH; I DEMAND EQUAL TIME.
ELIZABETH HAWES
LOS ANGELES
P: Dress Designer Hawes has already had her say in Fashion Is Spinach (1938)--ED.
Sir:
Robert Vickrey is an excellent addition to your staff of cover artists; his portrait of M. Dior is in perfect harmony with your amusing article. Christian's perplexed expression confronted with oversized dressmaker's shears is superb.
DOUGLAS C. MACKENZIE
West Springfield, Mass.
Sir:
What a disappointment! At first glance I thought it was George Humphrey trimming the budget.
C. G. ELLIS Elsinore, Calif.
Color & the Colonel
Sir:
This is meant to counter the words of Colonel Charles C. Loughlin (ret.), who wrote [March 4], "The average Negro is treated like a second-class citizen because he is a second-class citizen." Remember, Colonel, there was a time when the Negro was not a citizen at all. He was a slave; then a "free" man--but without funds, without education, without anything. How could he become a first-class citizen? Of course, nowadays the average Negro has his N.A.A.C.P., but this average Negro honestly believes that what is really needed is a National Association for the Advancement of All People--N.A.A.A.P. (M/SGT.) W. R. SHEPHERD, U.S.A. Fort Riley, Kans.
Sir:
It's bigots like Colonel Loughlin who are responsible for the kakistocratic rule that pervades in the South and in Russia. Whose side did the colonel fight for, and from what kind of chair--plush, leather, or reclining?
PETER B. D'Esopo Tenafly, NJ.
P: Colonel Loughlin, who calls himself a "bird colonel foot soldier," joined the 81st (Wildcat) Infantry Division in 1917, saw action a few weeks before the Armistice. He was retired. because of age (60) in 1942, later recalled to command a P.W. camp in Jackson, Miss, until he retired for good in 1945.--ED.
Home from the Jungle
Sir:
Bravos for "The Executive Wife" [March 4]. An executive's home (and that includes mamma) is his castle, and any executive's wife worth her title is a happy homemaker, uses her energies to relax her husband's strife-weary brain and soaks his swollen feet after he treads the corporate jungle all day. Let's hope the corporations stop infiltrating the closed family circle.
MARY E. CUMMINGS Riverside, Conn.
*Commanding an ironclad ship built in the shape of a tortoise, Admiral Yi Soon Shin won a naval victory over the Japanese during the wars of the late 16th century.
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