After the Revolution
SIR:
MULTITHANKS FOR A FINE PIECE ON NEWSMEN IN CARACAS [Feb. 3]. HOWEVER, THERE IS ONE INACCURACY WHICH MUST BE STRAIGHTENED OUT BECAUSE IT REFLECTS UNFAVORABLY ON CORRESPONDENTS. THE LIQUOR BAN WAS DEFEATED TOO, AND AT LEAST TWO TIME AND LIFE OPERATIVES CAN TESTIFY THEY ATTENDED POST MORTEM SESSIONS ON REVOLUTION WITHOUT ANYBODY'S THROAT OUTDRYING.
TAD SZULC
RIO DE JANEIRO
Time, Space & Money
Sir:
Mark up victory for Khrushchev and Bulganin, who have stampeded us into drives lor higher salaries for scientists, teachers and generals. We are destroying our own economy and building that of half-civilized nations through purchases and loans for fear they will gravitate into the Soviet orbit. GARDNER GRIFFITH Phoenix, Ariz.
Sir:
Your Jan. 20 missile report is masterful. How different is the shoddy treatment of this subject in our daily newspapers.
MERSON L. SKINNER Honolulu, T.H.
Sir:
How Sputnik and its effect on public opinion have transformed the thinking of the Democrat Congressmen" who only last year voted to cut budget requests for national defense, etc.
BETTY H. NOTE WARE Manistee, Mich.
No Jews Allowed
Sir:
Re the Jan. 27 article "No Jews Allowed": I am a Canadian and work in a building that bears on its face the legend, "Here the Canadian Club Movement had its Beginning, December 6, 1892." Every time I read this in the future, I will be ashamed, for it will remind me that this "prestigious" club has slandered the country it is supposed to bring honor and pride to.
S. C. McGROGAN Hannon, Ont.
Yea, Team!
Sir:
The members of the Glenview Community Church are sincere in their search for the true meaning of religion, which is more than I can say for your adulterated, flamboyant, superficial Jan. 27 article.
JUNE REGEHR Glenview, Ill.
Sir:
Congratulations for exposing the country club that poses as a church in Glenview.
ROBERT AHL Glenview, Ill.
Sir:
Even your "Dancing for the Gods" article says, "Among the peoples of Asia dancing is still an organic and important part of religion; each step and gesture . . . may be loaded with metaphysical meaning." The inner meaning in the new vitality Protestantism is recovering in the suburbs is yet to be appreciated by you. We hopefully await the day when a reporter from TIME will do as much for the natives in suburban American churches as he does for the Asian natives. RUSSELL J. BECKER ROBERT A. EDGAR THEOPHILUS RINGSMUTH CLINTON M. RITCHIE
The Team Ministry Glenview Community Church Glenview, Ill.
Sir:
The Glenview Community Church should change its "billboard" to read: the Glenview Community Club. And its ministers should drop their titles.
MARGRET W. JURGENS Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.
Friendly Dissuasion
Sir:
Following TIME'S Dec. 16 review of Come To Me, a friend wrote: "I'm sure you've canceled your subscription to TIME." On the contrary, I find myself reinstating my TIME subscription which lapsed years ago. The reason: your current practice of reviewing TV's live dramatic programs. At a time when TV drama is suffering, TIME'S attention to individual plays is a fine practice.
BOB CREAN New Rochelle, N.Y.
The Whole Woman
Sir:
Many forget that Mills College offers many programs of study that may not be classified as "home arts" [Jan. 27]. Dr. Lynn T. White Jr. has been instrumental in instilling in Mills women a pride in their sex that extends not only into the kitchen but also into every realm of a woman's life.
ELIZABETH BRANDT JANE BRISTOW DEBORAH COLLINS ANN JULSON Mills College Oakland, Calif.
Sir:
President Lynn White Jr. of Mills College, who says he won't be satisfied until he hears a woman say with pride, "I'm a housewife," can rest at ease. Whenever I go to the store or take the baby to the doctor, etc., I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I'm Frank's wife and Trip's mother. What could be better? I've been wanting to tell the world how proud and happy I am to be a housewife, and here is my chance.
MRS. FRANK W. ZWYGART JR. Evansville, Ind.
Sir:
I was comforted to learn that the college girls at Mills are being educated so that they can make themselves useful.
DONALD RALBOVSKY Washington, B.C.
Sensitive Toes
Sir:
Your Jan. 27 article on chiropody-podiatry must have been authored by a 90-year-old hermit. No one would consider calling a chiropodist-podiatrist a "corn cutter" any more than they would consider calling Dr. Jonas Salk a "pill pusher."
JANE W. TYBURSKI Pittsburgh
Sir:
One reason for the change from "chiropodist" to "podiatrist" is today's scope of practice of America's foot specialists. Corns, calluses and ingrown nails are common foot conditions, but the podiatrist diagnoses and treats diseases, injuries and deformities of the human foot by chemical, physical and mechanical means.
IRVING L. MARKS, Pon.D. N.Y. State Podiatry Society New York City
To the Teeth
Sir:
As a teacher in the public school system, I am a little horrified that the Cincinnati Dental Society has imposed such a penalty on Dentist Peter Garvin for his column "Your Teeth" [Jan. 27]. As I observe the wholesale neglect of the teeth of children and adults PS well, it would appear that any attention called to the care of teeth would be a step in the proper direction--even at the risk of a little advertising.
CHLOE W. BLANCHARD Calhoun, Ky.
Sir:
Dr. James Shaw's report that urea is an effective anti-decay agent [Jan. 13] comes as no surprise to those acquainted with the Roman poet Catullus [84-54 B.C.], who, in poems 37 and 39, lashes out at a Spaniard who aspires to be the lover of Catullus' girl and accuses him of keeping his teeth white by rubbing them with urine.
RITA FLEISCHER Flushing, N.Y.
Hagerty & the Hornets
Sir:
Thanks for an unbiased, nonpartisan appraisal of James Hagerty, one of the most bitterly criticized men holding an official position in the U.S. He is a hornet's nest under the donkey's tail.
FRED D. JOHNSON St. Paul
Sir:
I was distressed to learn that my old friend Jim Hagerty, after more than 17 years, still "writhes" when he recalls his experiences on the Willkie train in 1940. We did lose one reporter who had ventured far afield in a wide-open Western city; but the local sheriff was alerted and had already assembled a posse in true western tradition to find him (which he did later). On another occasion, an autoload of reporters were inadvertently left behind on the prairies of a Midwestern state. Their driver, however, raced the train on a parallel highway, and after some signaling from car to train they were brought safely back. I'll make book that Jim Hagerty never had as much fun on a campaign train as he did on the Willkie train. From then on he was running the show instead of just going along for the ride.
LEM JONES Press Secretary "Mismanaged Willkie Train" Mamaroneck, N.Y.
Sir:
I am glad we have a White House press secretary so humble that he only sends for Cabinet members when he has to, only speaks for the President when he thinks he knows what the President would say, and only attacks those who question his right to all this when his ulcers are acting up. I am so damn glad he is helping to run the country that I can hardly see straight.
STEPHEN G. CADY New York City
Sir:
You laud Hagerty as "a professional presidential press secretary--the first of his kind." I hope he is the last to do such an all-out snow job. He is "the abominable snowman."
MRS. H. G. ALSTON Duncan, Okla.
No Red Haven
Sir:
Your Sept. 9 article shocked me. There may be a colony of wealthy Communist expatriates in Mexico, but they are not in this town and certainly not in my home. Indeed, I have never met any of those whom you named except Maurice Halperin, whom I barely met when serving for OSS during World War II and have not seen since. I am not and never have been a Communist. I do not and have never kept open house for Communists or fellow travelers. I would not dignify your story by a response but for the incalculable harm which you have caused to me and to Institute de Allende, famed art school here in San Miguel.
STIRLING DICKINSON San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
P: TIME erred. There is no support for any assertion of connection between Mr. Dickinson, his school or his town and Mexico's colony of wealthy Communist expatriates.--ED.
Irish Stew
Sir:
Concerning the letter from Marion A. Trozzolo on Irish character traits [Jan. 27]: If centuries of fighting for their freedom and independence isn't perseverance and tenacity of purpose, what is?
MRS. E. R. LACHAPELLE Seattle
Sir:
We thank the Lord that Irish self-deception and escape from reality is a quasi substitute for the "tenacity of purpose" some people realize in a Klan or a Mafia.
ANDREW J. MULLIGAN Somerville, Mass.
Sir:
Reader Trozzolo must consider, I have to assume, that a man who devotes his life to the spiritual guidance of his fellow men (Spellman, Sheen, Gushing) lacks the perseverance of such reality facers as Messrs. Dio, Anastasia, Luciano, et al.
PATRICK F. X. BRENNAN Yonkers, N.Y.
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