Hoffa's Way

Sir:

The obvious solution to the whole Russian and Middle East mess is to turn Jimmy Hoffa and his thugs loose in Moscow and Cairo with the same freedom they apparently have in Flint, Mich.

P. W. SMITH JR.

Atlanta

Sir:

The Teamsters Union is an example of a corruption that is present in America. The frightening fact is the obvious inability of anyone to purge the union of its leaders; the workers are either happy with the wages they receive, and therefore do not care, or are frightened. Businessmen who will not speak up are either satisfied with their profit or are too scared.

JAMES R. GILLESPIE

Urbana, Ill.

Sir:

How can anyone have a clear conscience when the Government sends marines in to straighten out the mistakes of incompetent diplomats; here, in our own backyard, mobsters reign and live just like Nikita and his gang. Marines should round up all the Hoffas and deport them to the Near East or Russia.

H. MILLER

San Francisco

Father of His Country?

Sir:

If it means anything to you Americans to be liked and respected by the Arab peoples, then the answer is very simple: hands off their affairs and let them decide for themselves what form of government suits them best. Their Nasser is no better, no worse, than your George Washington.

ANTAR ABDO-BAHARI

Monterrey, Mexico

The Southern Way

Sir:

Whoever in TIME comments on elections in Arkansas and Tennessee is subhuman. He seems to think that the word redneck--in describing a white Southern gentleman--is tops in high literary style. These rednecks you speak of are the same red-blooded Americans who had to go to Germany to fight Hitler. There will never be integration in the South, and we will educate the illiterates of the North.

A. S. PERKINS

Atlanta

Sir:

Re your Aug. 18 article on "Tennessee's Split": as a North Carolina Negro, I began losing my admiration for [the segregationists] in '45, and today I don't count them as anything. As far as I'm concerned, they can ride the South to Hell. I want no part of it.

Sp/4 FRANK HILL U.S.A.

Fort Campbell, Ky.

Switch Pitcher

Sir:

At last TIME [Aug. 25] has invented the perfect weapon to stifle the switch-hitter--the switch-pitcher. The Braves are a cinch with Southpaw Righthander Pizarro throwing his "screwie." Did your photo man flip his lid, or his negative?

ED KOLPACK

Fargo, N. Dak.

P: Just his print. For the right view of Lefthander Pizarro, see cut.--ED.

Frankie Boy

Sir:

Only TIME, an old hand at calling a spade a spade, would dare to describe the mess that calls itself Sinatra. Thanks for letting us know what he is by telling us what he does.

DONALD JOHN GIESE

Minneapolis

Sir:

Your article on Mr. Frank Sinatra in Show Business [TIME, Aug. 25] was grossly unfair. Can't you realize by now that Frankie Sinatra is a byproduct of the Beat Generation?

WILLIAM HALLIS

Philadelphia

3.B.'s Bounties:

Sir:

TIME, Aug. 18, was proving to be one of the most thrilling issues--until we turned to a picture in Show Business. Brigitte's state of undress is enough to make one's hair curl. For shame!

MARION SMITH Fort

Benton, Mont.

Sir:

When is TIME going to stop treating sex and bosoms (Bardot's and others') as if they were 20th century discoveries? Neither has changed much in the last 5,000 to 10,000 years.

DIANE QUITTENTON

London, Ont.

Sir:

There will undoubtedly be much controversy concerning your revealing photograph of Bardot. The moralists, plus all the many frustrated wives and husbands, will point the finger of outraged disgust at this bountifully endowed young woman. Actually, there lives hardly one normal man who does not secretly wish that his own wife could bring herself to be as provocative to him as Brigitte is.

WILLIAM H. TATRO

Bakersfield, Calif.

After 13 Years

Sir:

Your Aug. 18 story on the 13th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima was of special interest to me. That day is forever engraved on my conscience.

EDNA WEXLER

Brooklyn

Sir:

Like most Americans, I am very sorry for the deaths caused by the A-bomb at Hiroshima, but not more sorry for those than for the tremendous number of deaths caused by the government that Hiroshima eagerly supported. Perhaps someone ought to remind the bitter mayor of Hiroshima just who and whose friends started the bitter war.

JERRY W. YARBROUGH

Danforth, Me.

Sir:

If the Japanese thought that Pearl Harbor was good enough for the Americans, then I think that Hiroshima was too good for the Japanese.

SYBIL KLIMAN

Watertown, Mass.

Tale of a Snub & a Sub

Sir:

I was very interested in your frank and honest coverage regarding the snubbing of Admiral Rickover. The treatment given him by the Navy brass appears to a large segment of the population to be nothing more than downright antiSemitism.

JEROME D. GRANT

Milwaukee

Sir:

How petty can those Pentagon poppin-jays get? Remember the penetrating story you had on Hyman Rickover when he cut through the brass and tape to get the Nautilus built [Jan. 11, 1954]? Our Navy son was home and read it to me amid chortles of glee. I suggest those people responsible for this snub, which only emphasizes their own insecurity, become tarnished brass and fast.

ELIZABETH R. STEWART

Vancouver, Wash.

Golden Apparition

Sir:

I am sure hundreds of Mormons will call your attention to the error in your article on the Hill Cumorah Pageant, in which you say that only Joseph Smith saw the golden plates. Actually, they were seen by eleven other witnesses, whose signed statements appear in the Book of Mormon.

WALLACE F. BENNETT

U.S. Senator, Utah

Washington

Sir:

Joseph Smith showed the plates to eight men. An angel showed them to three others. Of the eleven witnesses besides Joseph, seven of them were my relatives. These men bore solemn testimony all their lives that they had seen and handled the plates.

NORMAN PAGE

Goodland, Kans.

Sir:

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I enjoyed your excellent article. The witnesses' testimonies were never withdrawn or modified in any way, although some of them eventually withdrew from the church and became very bitter toward it.

NORMA JEAN BERGEN

Ogden, Utah

Far Afield

Sir:

TIME, Aug. 11, discussing the recent sale of Parade Magazine by Marshall Field Jr., reports that Field "is said to be thinking of buying another Midwestern newspaper property (one rumored possibility: the jointly owned Rockford, Ill. Star and Register-Republic)." TIME's "rumored possibility" regarding Rockford newspapers is untrue. As president and publisher of the Star and Register-Republic, I request that you set the record straight. The papers are not for sale.

E. KENNETH TODD Rockford, Ill.

Contraception Controversy

Sir:

Holy congratulations to our Protestant and Hebrew brethren in New York City who challenged the issue of religious freedom regarding contraception [Aug. 25]. This is another sit-up-and-take-notice summons to non-Catholics of the danger of presidential and other token powers in the hands of the Church of Rome.

(THE REV.) JOSEPH D. STANLEY

The Stillwater United Church

Stillwater, N.Y.

Sir:

A pity that Mrs. Jones; of Seattle (Aug. 18 Letters) should sanction birth control after being blessed with ten beautiful, healthy children. If she'd learn to delegate some of the responsibilities to the older children, she wouldn't be faced with a problem. In big families (we're expecting our sixth) everybody works, and everybody sits down at the same time. I hope I'll live to see the day when my grandmother's method of Planned Parenthood will return--that of having spaced eleven of her children two years apart by breast feeding.

MRS. RICHARD NAUMAN

Metamora, Ill.

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