Wool on the Hound's Tooth

Sir:

Kudos to TIME for its scoop interview with Bernard Goldfine and the meaty story on Sherman Adams. It is obvious that the Eisenhower Administration never again will be able to pull the vicuna over the people's eyes about its moral rectitude.

A. KLEIN

Mount Vernon, N.Y.

Sir:

Could be the Republicans will get political rabies from Sherm's clean hound's tooth.

HARRY T. BRONKHURST Monterey Park, Calif.

Sir:

If Mr. Adams is so unlettered he doesn't know the rules, so innocent he cannot recognize a bribe, and so naive he figures the name of the Assistant to the President carries no influence, does he qualify for that position ?

E. SANTELLA Eau Claire, Wis.

Sir:

I am a lifelong Democrat, but I cannot but decry the smears now being attempted on the Administration. I want a Democratic victory in all of the upcoming elections, but I do not believe that victory is more important than honesty.

LESTER G. FLANAGAN

Tallahassee, Fla.

Sir:

Oh, virgins and statesmen, your honor

must be

Kept free from the tiniest taint; And when you let gentlemen pay for your rooms, The inference is that it ain't.

JAMES SEGESTA

Los Angeles

Sir:

Why, when we find men as dedicated as Adams, do we enjoy heckling them off their shaky roost? If they would compare the salaries and gift lists of Harlow Curtice, Henry Ford II, et al., it would make Adams' list look pretty trivial.

R. S. WATSON Riverdale, Md.

Sir:

I remember deploring the publicity given the "misguided" members of Truman's Administration, and cannot help but abhor the press's full coverage of the "dirty" side of any administration. Is it not possible to criticize in a constructive manner so that our neighbors elsewhere in the world will not think we're juvenile and petty?

MRS. MARY JANE RUETTINGER

Skaneateles, N.Y.

Sir:

Could you get Ike to tell Dick to tell Sherm to tell us about "Checkers" again?

ALBIN B. VAZNELIS Toledo

Sir:

The fault is not with the President or with the general moral tone of his Administration, or with Adams and his amazingly naive acceptance of favors from an East Boston, Mass. promoter and capitalist. Such things as this are done every day in the year by big business and small business without being publicized. Not until some enterprising newspaperman or researcher who is out to dig up the dirt on a political opponent gets a tipoff, is the unfortunate and embarrassed politician given the full treatment and held up to obloquy.

ARTHUR H. PATTERSON Sheepscot, Me.

Happy Anniversary

Sir:

Re your cover on Alaska's Governor Stepovich: I recall that eleven years ago, Ernest Gruening, author of the relentless campaign for statehood for Alaska . . . and three times governor of Alaska, was splendidly on your cover with a big "49" star.

WILLIAM SPRATLING

Taxco, Mexico

P: For TIME'S June 16, 1947 cover, see

cut.--ED.

Foster's Hideaway

Sir:

Many thanks for the inside story on John Foster Dulles' hideaway [June 16]. It was heartwarming to read that the biggest mouth in the U.S. is well fed.

RISHA FRAIBERG

Montreal, Quebec

Sir:

This long-experienced camp cook would like to know the Dulles' magic secret of producing Cordon Bleu menus in such "Thoreau-going" surroundings. A six-course dinner to please the most discriminating gourmet bubbles away on the old-fashioned stove in the time it takes me to open a can of pork and beans. If F. & J. can clean up the mess afterward--unaided by plumbing or electricity--the mess of the Middle East is in safe and efficient hands.

ROSALIE C. AKENLOF Princeton, N.J.

P: That fancy dinner is cooked on a stove using bottled gas. F. & J. sometimes cook food over an open fire, but the stove is used for elaborate meals. --ED.

Sir:

It is reassuring to learn of the truly simple life that one of our statesmen, with his wife, enjoys, if only occasionally, in a completely primitive setting by recharging his depleted energies in such fashion. Such men's motives are to be trusted, for they are going to the source of life for their strength.

KATHRYN ALWINE Hanover, Pa.

Americans at Brussels

Sir:

As an artist, I feel completely outraged at the American art display at Brussels World's Fair [June 16]. Why put that ridiculous sculpture in a beautiful, expensive setting?

ANNE S. RITCHIE Atlanta

Sir:

While cleaning up the farm this spring we hauled off a beautifully weird collection of burned-out furnace grates and twisted baling-wire arabesques--dumping them in a cow pasture against a tree. The effect is much the same as that conveyed by the U.S. grotesquerie of steel birds ranged about the U.S. Pavilion's pool and tree.

LORA D. REITER

Simpson, Kans.

Sir:

Come, you Americans are too modest. You must have half a dozen trained chimps in your country who can give you clearer impressions of a restaurant out of a box of paints.

N. M. WHITE London

The Report on Calcutta

Sir:

One article in your June 16 issue interested me beyond all others. It was on the times, the life and the manners of the people in Calcutta, India. Not only is the article illuminating, but it is packed with vivid descriptions of how life is lived in one of the big cities of the world; it would be providential if many people in our own big cities read it, and it would bring home to them how fortunate we are in this country--no matter how grievous the problems of our large cities seem to be.

JOHN B. HYNES Mayor Boston

Sir:

An extraordinary narrative. My olfactory nerves tingled with the stench of Calcutta; the malignity and frustration were outside my own door. Man dreams to conquer the space about him; yet he cannot provide an abode in which his kind can live well and die decently.

STANLEY KALOTA Grosse Point Park, Mich.

Nothing Like a Dame

Sir:

Congratulations on your June 16 cover picture. Strictly from a sailor's point of view, Jean Thorn has Teller and Khrushchev beat from every angle.

(ET3) RICHARD C. COTTON c/o Postmaster San Francisco

Sir:

I noted with interest that our white sisters are investing $4 billion dollars a year in beauty aids and treatments. Certainly the money is well invested. Beauty makes the world a prettier place to live in. But I am sending you a picture of one of our Indian girls who is beautiful just as she is--with just a little help from the beauty industry. Her name is Madonna Blue Horse [see cut]. She is the 1958 winner of the "Marylike Contest" sponsored by the Holy Rosary Mission of Pine Ridge, S. Dak., the largest Indian mission in our country.

SILAS LEFT HAND BULL Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

Sir:

The reason the beauty industry has failed to get U.S. women to buy more perfume is obvious: she takes a scented bath, puts on lipstick, cream, powder, deodorant, hair spray, hand lotion, etc.

CHRISTINE J. THORNTON Madrid

Sir:

Gilbert and Sullivan put it this way:

. . . Gild the farthing if you will, Yet it is a farthing still.

DONALD R. HOGER Rapid City, S. Dak.

Sir:

My nephew informs me that he knows a girl who uses a royal jelly lipstick, and every time she goes out, she is simply surrounded with a swarm of bees.

RUTH BENDEL Hinsdale, Ill.

Long Time Down Under

Sir:

Impressive as the performance of the Skate may be in remaining submerged for 31 days [June 9], this is not the record. In the summer of 1945 the German sub U-977, fitted with a snorkel, ran submerged for 66 days while escaping to Argentina from Norway. CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN Los Altos, Calif.

P: But the Skate did not have a snorkel --a fact which makes its record more impressive.--ED.

The Papist Plot

Sir:

As a Roman Catholic priest, I roared when reading how the Catholic students of Athens' University of Georgia answered Student Lowell Kirby's ridiculous accusation of a Papist plot to establish fascism in America [June 16]. With all the crafty preparations being made by Rome to take over the country, I feel left out in the cold. In my nine years as a parish priest not once have I been called in by my bishop to be briefed on the coming coup d'etat. I haven't even been told the date of the uprising.

(THE REV.) W. J. MITCHELL St. Lucy Church Chicago

Sir:

I'm sure that most Catholics in the U.S. are loyal Americans, but we Protestants who live in Italy under "democracy" as dictated by the Vatican are inclined to side with Kirby.

ROYAL L. PECK

Associazione Missionaria Evangelica Italiana Perugia, Italy

What's Hell?

Sir:

Jesuit Robert W. Gleason's pronouncements concerning the nature of Hell [June 16] are a welcome contrast to the disgraceful lack of conviction which the Church of England recently exhibited in its shilly-shallying treatment of the question of the existence of demons. It is only to God's certified earthly representative and interpreter--the Holy Roman Catholic Church--that we can look for theological truth and progress. "If you want the dope, ask the Pope."

G. P. SCHOEFFEL San Francisco

Sir:

Theologians do have a difficult time explaining hell. How well I know--being raised a Catholic. It wasn't until I was contacted by a Jehovah's Witness at my door that I had all my questions answered and proved from the Bible.

WANDA UDOLE Katonah, N.Y.

Phfft

Sir:

Glad fo see FIME Magazine is regressing fo fhe old use of fhe "F" in fheir arficles. Call special affenfion to "Cliff" Hofel June . For modernists, however, couldn't we condescend to call a spayde a spade, a Cliff a Clift?

RUSSELL ST. JOHN

Clift Hotel San Francisco

P: FIME erred.--ED.

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