Top Cop
Sir:
Greatly appreciated the July 7 article on New York City's Cop Kennedy. Reared under strong disciplinarians and schooled under the meekest of socio-individual reformers, I see no antagonism between the two. The strong arm needs a big heart. It is only when one is greatly out of proportion to the other that hateful mastery or loveless nonrestraint occurs. Ministers and social workers in New York should warmly appreciate a policeman like Kennedy.
H. LEROY STANTON Minister
St. Paul's Methodist Church Baytown, Texas
Sir:
My wife was set on a New York vacation. I wanted to go to the West Coast. For once I had my way, with an assist from TIME.
PETER DAUFERTLY
Long Beach, Miss.
Sir:
Kennedy's treat-'em-rough school of police enforcement may cause "New York's Battle of the Streets" to become even grimmer than it is at present: total war between zip-gun toters and club-swinging police, with the innocent citizen in the middle of it all. The man in blue should not just be a faceless, gun-slinging symbol of an aloof society; antagonism can only beget hate and make the accomplishment of police duties that much more difficult.
A. WEISS
San Francisco
Sir:
Kennedy's stand for law and order is refreshing. Why should law-abiding citizens be forced to accept what amounts to official collusion with violence and lawlessness ? This has become a tyranny of the minority, and both youngsters and adults who believe in the law are suffering for it.
VERNE RYLAND
Caldwell, Kans.
Sir:
I hope Kennedy keeps his men centered in on the Demons and Dragons while the critical eggheads fan the air with their butterfly nets.
CURTIS TRUMAN
Baudette, Minn.
Sir:
The personal philosophy of Commissioner Kennedy is a welcome approach to juvenile delinquency. For years the laissez-faire psychology of the behaviorists has proved the most detrimental element in the disciplining and educating of our young people.
WILLIAM E. WENGERT
Chicago
Pamphlets for Parenthood
Sir:
Bootless but commendable is the campaign by Toledo's Planned Parenthood League to control birth by pamphlet [July 7]. It recognizes an imminent population problem--even for the prosperous U.S.
LARRY CENOTTO
Butte, Mont.
Sir:
There ought to be a law against the Planned Parenthood League. Do we have any idea what we are doing when we refuse to create a new soul?
KATHERINE J. ELIG
Minneapolis
Sir:
Is not the crime pattern in New York City the heaviest in areas where the birth rate is most prodigious? Does this not reflect a crying need for the dissemination of birth control information, despite the organized opposition of the Roman Catholic Church?
THEODORE J. KINN
New York City
Lebanon & the West
Sir:
Your July 7 article on the Lebanese rebellion clarifies many points. As an observer who has lived in Lebanon for a long time, I feel that President Chamoun may be ambitious--all politicians are--but he stands for Lebanese independence. Chamoun aligned himself with the West because he knew what his critics were up to, and it was the only way to save his country. We shouldn't blame him now for befriending us.
F. SAKER
Chicago
Divorced from Atmosphere
Sir:
Concerning the Skate's 31-day submerged record [July 7]: the Skate has a snorkel for emergency use but, of course, did not use it during the 31-day period. When in use, a snorkel is continually taking in fresh air and exhausting either engine exhaust gas or stale air (it actually has two pipes enclosed in one large tube to make this possible). In our 31-day period the 95 men in the Skate were as completely divorced from the earth's atmosphere as though they had been in outer space. This was made possible by a battery of atmosphere purifying and recycling equipment that has been developed for use in nuclear submarines. At the end of 31 days, we were breathing the same air we started with more than a month before.
JAMES F. CALVERT Commanding Officer
U.S.S. Skate % Postmaster
New York City
Panning Goldfine
Sir:
It seems incredible that our Government should sanction the appointment of congressional committees to pry into the affairs of individual citizens, a matter which rightfully belongs in the province of the Justice Department. These committees should be abolished.
LESTER W. HANSEN
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Sir:
Such types as Goldfine must be curbed, for they wreak havoc on honest and law-abiding citizens (I do not mean Adams), who accept the largesse unsuspectingly.
JACK ANDREWS
Philadelphia
Sir:
Sherman Adams is a true Christian in preaching one thing and practicing another.
F. SCHILLER
Osoyoos, B.C.
Sir:
Perhaps it is poetic justice that the goblin the Republicans raised now seems about to devour them--hoofs, horns, N.A.M. and all.
RICHARD NEIL HAYTON
Kailua, Oahu, T.H.
Hector & Honey
Sir:
So John Fox discovered that New England livestock could not survive the Middle East climate [July 7]? The Israeli government imported a Holstein bull (Whirlhill Hector) from our farm some time ago to improve their fine Holstein herds. All reports indicate that Hector and his daughters are thriving in the Biblical land of milk and honey.
JAMES M. OSBORN
Whirlwind Hill Farm Wallingford, Conn.
Pre-Chewed Classics
Sir:
I am delighted to read Editor Mortimer Smith's outcry against pre-chewed classics [July 7]. I am with him right down the line. To learn that the opening sentence of A Tale of Two Cities has been deleted is tragic. When reading to children I have felt it was good to go over their heads if possible. How else are they going to learn new words and tastes ?
JEAN P. FITZGERALD
Wallingford, Conn.
Sir:
If I catch my kids reading any of the condensed classics, I'll whack them with a rolled-up Readers Digest.
JEAN LINTON Racine, Wis.
Sir:
Despite Classics Crank Mortimer Smith, the adapter (or the editor) may sometimes know "how to write the book better than did the original author." I've been reading those versions of Tom Wolfe's novels by Maxwell Perkins, and they're not half bad. Of course, I've never read the originals.
JOHN FARLEY Flushing, N.Y.
P: Until his death in 1947, Perkins, as editor of Charles Scribner's Sons, was literary nurse to such authors as Thomas Wolfe, Ring Lardner, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. In Wolfe's case he was also surgeon, cut and helped revise the huge, sprawling manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel. --ED.
Sir:
The aim is to give youngsters who would be unable to read the classics in their original form a knowledge of the great works of literature in a modernized vocabulary. Confronted with large numbers of reluctant and retarded readers, our nation's schools have found Globe's publications most valuable.
SIDNEY S. SANDERS
Globe Book Co. New York City
Sir:
I see that not only could Johnny not read, but he grew up to be an adapter for the Globe Book Co.
MORGAN C. LARKIN
Bay Village, Ohio
Passing the Buck
Sir:
TIME, June 30, says that Buck Rogers was "created" 29 years ago by Robert C. Dille's father. In 1928 a story entitled Armageddon --2419 was published. The author of it was Phillip Francis Nowlan. Shortly thereafter, John Dille contacted Mr. Nowlan and asked him if he would be willing to have stories syndicated in strip form. Mr. Nowlan agreed, and changed the name of his principal character from Anthony Rogers to Buck Rogers. From then until his death in 1940, Mr. Nowlan was credited with being the creator and author of Buck Rogers, 25th Century. It was drawn by Dick Calkins and syndicated by the John F. Dille Co.
LAWRENCE J. NOWLAN
Philadelphia
Sir:
Phil Nowlan and I created Buck Rogers, and all Dille did was peddle it. If anybody wants to shoot it out, I have my old Colt .45s oiled up. To hell with them thar disintegrator guns. They won't work out here.
DICK CALKINS
Bonita, Ariz.
Moscow Mix-Up
SIR:
AN ASSOCIATED PRESS PICTURE CAPTION ON A MOSCOW CROWD SCENE ["The Road to Serfdom"--July 7] ERRONEOUSLY DESCRIBED THE PEOPLE AS PARTICIPANTS IN JUNE 23 DEMONSTRATIONS AT THE WEST GERMAN EMBASSY. THE PICTURE SHOWED A LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WALKING ACROSS RED SQUARE. INQUIRY HAS DEVELOPED THAT THE MOSCOW GROUP THUS PICTURED HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DEMONSTRATIONS.
THE CAPTION ERROR RESULTED FROM ABSENCE OF COMPLETE INFORMATION WITH UNDEVELOPED MOSCOW NEGATIVES AS THEY WERE SHIPPED BY AIR TO COPENHAGEN, THENCE TO LONDON. AN ACCOMPANYING NOTE STATING THAT THE NEGATIVES WERE TAKEN DURING THE ANTI-GERMAN DEMONSTRATIONS LED TO AN UNWARRANTED BELIEF THAT ALL NEGATIVES IN THE SHIPMENT WERE RELATED TO THE INCIDENT.
THE A.P.
NEW YORK CITY
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