The Pope's Music

SIR:

THIS YEAR MY HUSBAND HAD THE GREAT HONOR TO CONDUCT A SPECIAL CONCERT IN THE VATICAN, OFFERED TO THE POPE BY THE ITALIAN RADIO-TV. THE POPE CHOSE THE MUSIC HE LOVED MOST, INCLUDING BEETHOVEN'S FIRST SYMPHONY. HE REQUESTED TO HEAR THIS SYMPHONY JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH.

MRS. ARTUR RODZINSKI

LAKE PLACID, N.Y.

Two Sides of an Island

Sir:

I wish to express my complete agreement with the views on Quemoy and Matsu as expressed by Dulles and Nixon [Oct. 6].

It must be remembered that our State Department today is faced with the task of trying to put out the fire started by the ineptitude of two previous Administrations. Since 1945, we and/or our friends and allies have been kicked out of China, Albania, Indo-China, North Korea, Tibet, Iraq, Hungary and Suez. Is Quemoy to be next on the list?

EDGAR W. RIEBE

Metuchen, N.J

Sir:

The people of this country were fooled once too often by Vice President Nixon and his blatant opportunism, but they can not be fooled all the time--as testified by the "weight of the mail."

IRENE TRIVAS

New York City

Sir:

Your Oct. 6 "A Stand on Principle" was most absurd. When you try to rationalize that Mr. Dulles is right, then I think it is time something should be said about principles. Why is it, if you believe in the American Way of Life (I presume that this is synonymous with democracy), that you recognize Chiang? If you recognize Communist Russia's government, why not recognize Communist China's government?

J. CAMERON BROWN

Virden, Man

Sir:

The cries of public and press remind me of the mewling of babies. I refuse to believe that we as a nation have become so yellow, or so ignorant of what Communism has in store for us.

JAMES S. BURDETT

Miami

More About the Murrays

Sir:

The Oct. 6 article about some dissatisfied Arthur Murray students implies that these people were pressured into taking more hours of lessons than they could afford. My wife and I are very satisfied lifetime members of the Philadelphia studio. The value we have received is well worth what it has cost; the interest it has given us in self-expression, the objectives and the challenge to our abilities have provided an expansion of our enjoyment of social contacts.

ROBSON L. GREER

St. Davids, Pa.

Sir:

Your article on the Arthur Murray dance studios beautifully blasts the Murrays and their methods. The undersigned, finding himself in drastic financial straits, found it necessary a few years back to work for Kathryn and Arthur's principal competitor. Same story but different cast. I was on the other end and taught the wealthy ladies. Shall I show you my Sales Manual?

BOB ROBERTS

New York City

Sir:

You mentioned in your Oct. 13 issue that Gloria, wife of Novelist James (Some Came Running) Jones, was a onetime stand-in for Marilyn Monroe. Also, from 1949 to 1951 she was an Arthur Murray teacher.

MRS. ARTHUR MURRAY

New York City

A Dime for the Rock

Your article on Nelson Rockefeller [Oct. 6] prompts this letter. When I was a little girl in Cleveland, my mother was calling on Grandpa John D.'s neighbor and, over the back fence, told John D. that my birthday was the same day as his, July 8. With no hesitation, he reached in his pocket and handed my mother the enclosed dime. I now want to return it to Grandson Nelson for his campaign fund, and wish him luck and success.

(MRS.) MYRTLE R. GREENWALD

Los Angeles

Thanks

Sir:

I'm very grateful for your story [on the new Esquire--Oct. 6]. I imagine you get enough people squawking about things and that it might be a nice change of pace to get a thank you instead. Anyway I do, because I certainly was worried about the quotes and the names and the prices, etc., and you very evidently did an extremely good job of getting the quirks straightened out.

ARNOLD GINGRICH

Publisher Esquire Magazine

New York City

Sir:

To hell with modern liberals like Editor Gingrich. Give me the old Esquire.

RICHARD COTTON

Portsmouth, Va.

Thanks Again

Sir:

Should anyone ever question the influence of TIME, please have them check Beverly Hills post office regarding the countless manuscripts and novels pouring into my office daily as a result of your article in SHOW BUSINESS [Oct. 6]. I am delighted at the prospect of encountering one or more new gifted writers.

JERRY WALD

Los Angeles

No Thanks

Sir:

In your issue of Oct. 6, your CINEMA man--whose writings I love and esteem--errs in a manner which is natural, yet a little irritating to me and to Mr. John Huston. The story of Beat the Devil was not lolled together in Ravello. It was written as a novel by myself, and published (same title) by Lippincott in 1951. The lolling began at a lakeside in the Wicklow Mountains--that is to say, I lolled while Mr. Huston read my book, laughing in a gratifying manner. Mr. Huston paid me to write a screenplay. With a lot of help from Mr. Huston, I did so. This concluded my participation in the affair. Huston later decided it should be more of a comedy after all, and a man (Mr. Truman Capote) was hired to make it so. Altogether it made a lovely little film, and the end of it--whoever wrote it, wherever lolling--was a big improvement on the end of the novel.

JAMES HELVICK

Youghal, Ireland

P:James Helvick is a nom de plume of Claude Cockburn (rhymes with toe-burn), British journalist.--ED.

While Mom's Away

Sir:

Concerning 16-year-old Diana Humphries, who shot her younger brother while her parents were out working: When will these working mothers accept the plain fact that what a child wants and needs in the home is simply a mother. And will they ever learn that no house needs carpeting, new furniture and appliances as much as a child needs the presence of a mother whose love, attention and energy will create a lively and happy atmosphere.

PAULINE COSGROVE

Cincinnati

The Homely Yank

Sir:

Your review of the Lederer-Burdick book The Ugly American [Oct. 6] could come only from a complete misunderstanding of the purpose of the job the authors apparently set out to accomplish. The book intended to tell the people of this country something they need to understand about how our foreign affairs are conducted; it does that job in simple language and in easily understood terms. It is one of the most effective editorials I have ever read. And that's what it is, more than fiction, an editorial.

SYLVAN MEYER Editor

The Daily Times

Gainesville, Ga.

Integration & the Churches

Sir:

It appears that those members of the Southern clergy who hold that segregation should prevail [Oct. 6] are more responsive to public opinion than to the will of God. Like the politicians who are afraid of losing the support of the citizens of the South, some spiritual leaders seem fearful of being deserted by much of their congregation if they do not blast the integration movement.

TERRENCE J. MCBRIDE

U.S.A.F. Travis A.F.B., Calif.

Sir:

The pro-segregation statements made by the ministers of certain churches in Little Rock will make our work as Christian missionaries even more difficult.

(THE REV.) JOHN REAGAN

Kobe, Japan

TIME Listings

Sir:

Congratulations on your capsuled LISTINGS. Why not follow the title with a minute, parenthetical reference to the date--for the benefit of us would-be second-lookers?

BUELL R. SNYDER

Beachwood, N.J.

Sir:

Kill TIME LISTINGS right away. Those of us who want them will continue to get them from other sources. Let TIME remain TIME, a magazine and not a catalogue.

C. K. GUNN

New York City

Sir:

Your new section is an excellent idea, but why omit one of the greatest forces in the entertainment world today--phonograph records?

DAVID KAPP

Kapp Records, Inc.

New York City

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