National Sport

Sir:

I found your "Walter in Wonderland" story [about O'Malley and the DodgersApril 28] interesting, amusing and, most of all, clarifying as to why "Dem Bums'' took off for Los Angeles.

MIRIAM A. WOLF Bethesda, Md.

Sir:

To me, O'Malley is merely a shrewd operator who holds personal gain above loyalty to the people of Brooklyn and above the good name of baseball.

CHRISTOPHER NORTH Haverford, Pa.

Sir:

If Walter O'Malley were really shrewd, he would convert the Coliseum into an outdoor movie house when the Dodgers are out of town. With a built-in 42-ft. screen it should be a natural.

GORDON LAWRENCE Melrose Park, Pa.

Sir:

Shouldn't the story have been in the Business section ?

TED GARBARCZYK Brooklyn, N.Y.

Sir:

Give us back our Coliseum so U.S.C. can field the nation's best track teams before the nation's largest track and field crowds.

DICK GILBERT University of Southern California Los Angeles

Sir:

Your cover portrait of Walter O'Malley will furnish me with an ideal dart board.

HILTON N. RAHN JR.

Phillipsburg, NJ.

The Music Man

Sir:

TIME'S report [April 21] of Van Cliburn's excellence in the Tchaikovsky international music festival was most sympathetic. A bouquet of gorgeous Texas roses should go to his mother--his only teacher prior to his going to Juilliard.

CLARENCE F. DICKOFF Medford, Wis.

Sir:

Well, the U.S. was a little slow getting the satellite into space, evidently lost the propaganda race on the banning of nuclear weapons, can't wrestle, but it sure as hell can play the piano.

F. G. GUIRE

Managua, Nicaragua

Holy Wedlock

Sir:

Regarding married students in seminary [TIME, April 28]: I am in a leading seminary, happily married, with one child, and I disagree with Christian Century. Married students get more from their schooling than the unfortunate unmarried students. A wife is much more of a help than a hindrance.

L. B. HINDS

Philadelphia

Sir:

Before our marriage my husband spent his seminary "freedom" trying desperately to maintain his marks, earn his way financially, and see me on weekends. After our marriage his marks soared, he immediately gained weight, lost nervous tension, ceased smoking, and experienced financial security.

ELAINE C. MATTHEWS

East Orange, NJ.

Sir:

Bah ! If we wait until we're out of seminary, we'll be sterile.

LEONARD HATCH Eastern Baptist College St. Davids, Pa.

A Matter of Taste

Sir:

Bravo for the "Keep It Simple" article on autos [noting consumer rebellion against "ostentatious ornamentation"--April 21]. We have formed a club. The theme: "I-will-never-buy-a-car-even-one -inch-longer-than-my-present-one." Mine is a 1955 Chrysler.

ISABEL GRAYSON Bridgewater, Conn.

Sir:

Is it a crime to want a car with size, flashy styling, comfort and performance? I don't care to be jammed into a small, uncomfortable, stodgy toy that looks like it was designed by a Black Forest elf.

WILLIAM F. FIELD North Miami Beach, Fla.

Sandwich in the Sky

Sir:

It would be a shame to have airlines such as Scandinavian Airlines, Swissair, Air France, and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines cut down on their high caliber of service (which is typical of European hospitality) in order for Pan American to compete successfully with their version of typical United States hospitality (TIME, April 21).

JACK PAKOZDI East Lansing, Mich.

Sir:

If the "World's Most Experienced Airline" was so experienced, it would not have to be afraid of a sandwich. One cannot fill a stomach with experience but a good sandwich can do marvels.

DENNIS PH. HAMEL Beirut, Lebanon

Edifice Complex

Sir:

Re the Soviet and U.S. pavilions at the Brussels Fair [April 28]: Has Mother Russia given this country an edifice complex?

JERI RYAN

Chicago

Maserati's Management

Sir:

The article entitled "Maserati Off the Track," published in TIME, April 14, contains statements which are untrue and highly prejudicial to Maserati and to us.

Maserati is an industrial concern of Modena, Italy, which has established an outstanding reputation as a manufacturer of precision tools and automobiles. Your statements that Maserati President Adolfo Orsi owed Credito Italiano, an Italian bank, $15,600, that he wrote a check with no funds to cover it and that the bank asked that he be declared bankrupt are untrue. So is your statement that Credito Italiano "sent the shamed Orsis into hiding"; we have been for many years and still are openly and actively engaged in the management of Maserati. No bankruptcy petition was ever instituted against Maserati or us; none of the company's assets have been impounded, and the Argentine and Spanish governments have lived up to their engagements towards Maserati. We have never offered an interest in Maserati to Juan Manuel Fangio, the famous Argentine driver, and we continue in active control of the company.

To strengthen its financial position, Maserati has applied under Italian law for so-called "controlled management." Pursuant to this temporary proceeding we retain full management of Maserati, and the company continues normal operation without interruption. Facilities for the production of the luxury model Maserati Gran Turismo 3500 are operating at full capacity and are being expanded to meet increasing demands from all parts of the world; sales of the new car in the U.S. are developing rapidly.

ADOLFO ORSI

President OMAR ORSI Executive Director Officine Alfieri Maserati S.p.A. Modena, Italy

P: TIME erred. Fortnight ago Maserati's creditors approved the controlled-man-agement plan, under which the company can get a moratorium on debts for a stated period and can revamp its credit structure through procedures similar to those used by U.S. corporations that are not insolvent.--ED.

Thoughts of School

Sir:

Three cheers for your courageous fight against the muddleheaded American "educationists" [April 21]. It appears to me that the watering-down of the standards in the

American high schools poses a greater long-range danger to this country than the armed might of Soviet Russia.

F. O. GULBRANDSEN San Diego

Sir:

As a teachers' college professor who has had numerous opportunities lately to utilize TIME'S Education section for bulletin-board material, I was disappointed at not finding this section in the April 28 issue.

THEODORE H. RUPP

Lancaster, Pa.

Sir:

When I was of school age, I was progressively interested in hunting, fishing, alcohol and sex. To follow Educators Hamalainen and Thompson (of the A.S.C.D. of the N.E.A.) to a logical conclusion: it was very foolish of my teachers to waste my time on English and mathematics.

DAVID J. HAMM

Portland, Ore.

Sir:

Just keep pulling the sacred cow's tail until even the "educationists" must admit it doesn't give milk.

CLIFFORD V. LOCHNAAS Red Bud, 111.

Cinemarvelous

Sir:

Orchids to TIME for the April 21 cover story on cinemarvelous Alec Guinness. Orchids to Alec Guinness for being one entertainer who chose the confessional rather than the couch.

RICHARD P. PETTY

Detroit

Proselytizing Jews

Sir:

Re Reinhold Niebuhr's recommendation that Christians cease proselytizing Jews I April 21 |: I am certain that the Holy Spirit now sees what a foolish and intolerant act it was to convert a good Jew like Saul of Tarsus to such a narrowminded religion as Christianity.

PAUL OTIS EVANS

Pastor

Trinity Methodist Church Highland Park, NJ.

Education & the Admiral

Sir:

I'm in complete agreement with Admiral Rickover's views on our educational system's drawbacks [TiME, April 28], where bright and gifted young children do not get the special attention they deserve.

ISRAEL DEMSKY

Brooklyn

Sir:

If Admiral Rickover will stand behind the atomic submarine as his contribution to the future of mankind, I will stand behind this year's crop of "life-adjusted" graduates.

ROBERT D. WEBB

Principal

Harvel Grade School Harvel, Ill.

Sir:

Last summer I had an opportunity to see an atomic reactor. I have an idea that I know about as much about atomic power and atomic submarines as Admiral Rickover does about how children learn. If he studied the problem, he might find that the mind and personality of a child are just about as complex as an atomic submarine.

R. C. LEE

Henderson, Texas

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