Cries from the Jungle

Sir: "Pink Jungle" [June 16]. How could you do it! American men should know better, but any non-American reading that article would really be convinced that all American women are naught but a flock of foolish painted sheep. Also, unlike a decent, useful flock of sheep who always know their shepherd, we can't even be sure who is the crazy shepherd of the painted flock.

For the millions of us who aren't like that--I'm mad !

DOROTHY T. GIBNEY Hempstead, N.Y.

Sir: I wonder if La Pompadour went to bed all gooked up? If not, how ever did she get her "psychological lift"?

MRS. W. L. VENNING JR. Boise, Idaho

Sir: I am a farmer's wife, and this letter is prompted by Max Factor's remark and insinuation that farm women do not wear lipstick! I would like Mr. Factor to know that my hair is styled at Antoine's, I buy Rubinstein, Arden and Antoine cosmetics, and did buy Max Factor's lipstick.

MRS. CLARK ROBINSON Coldharbor, N. Dak.

Sir: I liked the story, although I am pretty sure some of our people will be a bit unhappy. Some of them usually are.

S. L. MAYHAM Executive Vice President The Toilet Goods Assoc., Inc. New York City

SIR: SINCE I AM ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE "INDUSTRY" MENTIONED AS CONFESSING TO A FAILURE TO SELL MORE PERFUME TO AMERICAN WOMEN, PERMIT ME TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. THE PROBLEM IS NOT TO SELL WOMEN BUT TO SELL MEN, WHO BUY 75% OF ALL PERFUME WORN BY WOMEN. MEN BUY THE PERFUME THEY WANT WOMEN TO WEAR, AND WOMAN WOULD DO WELL TO STAY WITH THAT PERFUME AS LONG AS SHE STAYS WITH THE MAN.

EDOUARD L. COURNAND PRESIDENT LANVIN PARFUMS, INC. NEW YORK CITY

Sir: Who wants to smell like everyone else at $12 a drop? My husband's after-shave lotion makes me unique among most women I come in contact with, and that at 98-c- a family-size bottle.

MRS. JOHN A. GRES Washington, B.C.

Sir: The American woman really has no desire to look beautiful, or else she would not spend so much time eating rich foods. The U.S. is rapidly producing painted women who are but shells of bleached and dyed hair, and aglow with exotic scents. They are afraid to face themselves as they are.

JEREMY S. WOOD Upper Montclair, NJ.

Sir: Poor Jean Locke--she must feel like she'd been hit in the face with a custard pie, and left to dry!

MARJEANE ADAMS Arcadia, Calif.

Sir: If, with all their know-how, experience and wealth, Mesdames Arden and Rubinstein have not succeeded in evading wrinkles, why should I try?

J. MORISON New York City

Crybaby Generation

Sir: Only one with a heart of stone could stand unmoved by the trials and tribulations of the American Beats and the English Angries [June 9]. Nor is history likely to forget them either. As long as man stands just a little straighter his head a little higher, in the presence of whines and howls and poor-folks writing, there will always be a place in his memory for the Crybaby Generation.

NUNNALLY JOHNSON Beverly Hills, Calif.

Sir: All this foaming by the Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men is the result of overpopulation, the taking of oneself too seriously, and the herd instinct to compare one's lot with one's fellow man.

C. OVERILL Santa Ana. Calif.

Counterpoint

Sir: Your June 9 reporting on rock-'n'-roller Jerry Lee Lewis and The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men, leaves me generously nauseated. After returning from two years duty in the Far East, I am seriously concerned over the very evident change in our country's cultural and amusement pursuits. When a supposedly enlightened people commence raising such types to positions of wealth and influence, then we as a nation have taken a long step toward fulfilling Marx's prophecy for capitalism. It is obvious that our churches, schools and parents have a monumental job ahead.

D. H. CALLAHAN Captain, U.S.A. Fort Riley, Kans.

Sir: Teen-agers who bristle to the defense of their rock-'n'-roll idols upon the slightest criticism from adults will doubtless be able to dream up some excuse for the deplorable antics of our latest good-will ambassador, Jerry Lee Lewis. I wonder how many of them, after reading your story, bothered to turn to the Education section and read how Pat Boone, a really good singer, can also win fame (and a degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia) and still be a nice guy with a spotless personal life.

CHARLES H. Row JR. Houston

General Quarters!

Sir: The June 9 article "Unlucky Ship" has been read throughout our ship, the U.S.S. Silverstein DE-534. It is our opinion that you have done our ship and our skipper a great injustice especially for the phrase "the Bad Ship Silverstein." The Silverstein is the best ship in the U.S. Navy, and the crew is proud to serve on her.

THE CREW OF THE Silverstein c/o Postmaster San Francisco

Rapture of the Heavens?

Sir: Re the exhilaration felt by TIME's Gilbert Cant after a few seconds' exposure to weightlessness [June 9]: May not weightlessness of longer duration produce an empyreal euphoria comparable to the "rapture of the deep"? What if buoyancy "to the point of exaltation" makes a modern inhabitant of the heavens decide he is God?

ELISE W. HEALD Hopkins. Minn.

The Face of Alaska

Sir: Congratulations for the nice story that for once pictured Alaskans as they are--and not as a native grinning from under a fur parka. Even the natives in Alaska have switched in the majority to the chemise for women and grey flannel for men.

L. M. WILLIAMS JR. Petersburg, Alaska

We have been treating Hawaii and Alaska in the same way France has been treating Algeria--forcing upon their citizens the duties of American citizenship without its rights. Thank God that the territories' citizens have been taking their maltreatment in better humor than Algeria's citizens have.

CHARLES WELLS Harlingen A.F.B., Texas

Sir: If Hawaii is neglected, the U.S. motto should be "Of the prejudice, by the prejudice and for the prejudice."

JACKSON LI Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Sir: I have lived in Honolulu a year now, and must say that Alaska (12 years residence) is far more ready for statehood than Hawaii will ever be. Alaska gets things done, but Hawaii is too full of petty political bickering locally to be entrusted with the greater responsibility of statehood.

BETTY JUNE DIAMOND Honolulu, T.H.

Sir: I would like to call your attention to the poem with which you preceded your story. It is not anonymous. It is the second stanza of a poem by Sam C. Dunham, called Alaska to Uncle Sam (published in 1899). Here is the first stanza:

Sitting on my greatest glacier, With my feet in Bering Sea, I am thinking, cold and lonely, Of the way you've treated me. Three-and-thirty years of silence! Through ten thousand sleepless nights I've been praying for your coming-- For the dawn of civil rights.

HELEN A. SHENITZ Alaska Historical Library and Museum Juneau, Alaska

Sir: In the early '20's Tom Waring, accompanied by brother Fred's orchestra, sang an Eskimo novelty song, part of the lyrics were: ". . . Can you imagine wine, women and song on a night up there, six months long. Oogie Oogie, Wa! Wa!"

M. LUCAS Farmington, Mich.

Cow Over Calf?

Sir: Re the story "Santa Claus, 1958": I did not say that my farm is making money hand over fist. The fact is that the farm is not making money "hand over fist" in any sense of the expression.

I regard the agricultural recession as a very live and vital political issue. I explained that the largest supply of feed this country has ever accumulated is causing farmers to withhold cows and sows and younger breeding stock from the market in the hope of finding a more satisfactory outlet for this burdensome supply of feed. And I further explained that when these animals and their progeny come to market, we will see a return of the disastrously low prices which livestock farmers have experienced so often during the last five years.

CLAUDE R. WICKARD Camden, Ind.

P:Perhaps TIME should have said "cow over calf." Ex-Secretary of Agriculture (1940-45) Wickard said: "My son-in-law and I sold ten Holstein cows the other day for $240 each. I didn't believe in Santa Claus until then." --ED.

Sculptor's Choice

Sir: I appreciate TIME Reader Raphael McKay's choice of my Grand Bather over Brigitte Bardot. As for me--I prefer Brigitte.

EMILIO GRECO Rome

Aa That's Guid

Sir: Be thankit for TIME [June 9] wi the braw story enent masel. My wife likes the photograph, but it's a gey peety I didna pit on the kilt that day. I'm at hame the feck o the simmer, and my wife and bairns are here binnae at sennicht-ends and a sennicht or twa in July. Wishin ye aa that's guid.

DOUGLAS YOUNG Tayport, Scotland

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