Late Returns

Sir:

How pleased those who voted for the Democrats must be with themselves. The Russians agree with them! They, too, don't want Mr. Eisenhower, Mr. Dulles or any part of the Republican policy. With the possibility of the Democrats running things again in the U.S., they obviously feel there will be little trouble in getting us mixed up in another costly, bloody and pointless war--just like they did in Korea.

LEOMA R. COOPER Norfolk

Sir:

The fickle voters flattened the G.O.P. that fattened them and relaxed.

ARTHUR E. WYNN Forest Hills, N.Y.

Sir:

It appears that Ike may well be remembered as the first lame-duck President in history.

J. RAMSEY MINOR

Cincinnati

Sir:

Reuther is the political genius who won this election. Most of his chosen candidates were elected, his unwanted officeholders were defeated, and "right-to-work" was beaten. J. KESNER KAHN Chicago

Sir:

Hail the new Governor of California: Walter Reuther.

BARBARA FLAHIVE Arcadia, Calif.

Sir:

The Democrats sold the idea that they are the democratic party, when the only two spots in our land where tyranny and terror reign--the South and the labor unions--are their principal strongholds.

BETTY H. NOTEWARE Manistee, Mich.

Sir:

I enjoyed your Oct. 27 article on Michigan's Representative Charles E. Chamberlain. However, in your Nov. 10 report on the elections, you did not say anything about how he fared in his race for reelection. How did he make out?

KEITH J. RUDERT Poplar Bluff, Mo.

P: He won, by 7,600 votes.--ED.

Low Dudgeon

Sir:

You reported that Lady Beatty spatted with Sinatra and "drove off in a Huff [Nov. 10]." It was not a Huff, but a Dudgeon. It is easy to understand how this mistake was made. It was not one of the old-model high Dudgeons, but one of the new low ones, which are frequently mistaken for Huffs, particularly when there is any fog about. I am quite sure of the facts in this matter, as I happened to be driving by in my 1958 Dilemma at the time.

B. M. STARRS

Louisville

P: And honking the horns?--ED.

Compensation for Zhivago

Sir:

Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, if distributed at home and abroad, could be an effective weapon for us. The publisher's price [$5] will prevent many from buying it. The solution is a subsidized paperback 50-c- edition with worldwide, free foreign-language copies. Since the U.S.S.R. holds and refuses payment of royalties owed American authors whose works have been published in Russia, the Pasternak royalties could be distributed among these unpaid American authors and credited to the balances owed them by the Russians.

PAUL S. SAMUELS Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Sir:

I was amazed that Doctor Zhivago was damned by Russia's so-called intellectuals, who obviously have not been able to read the book. Even in Boston we always read a book before we ban it.

JAMES J. NOLAN JR. Boston

Sir:

A quote from Emerson's essay Compensation seems fitting: "The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."

ANN CASE Vestal, N.Y.

Peggy, Paintings & Pants

Sir:

After seeing your picture of Art Collector Peggy Guggenheim [Nov. 10], I would like to suggest that instead of collecting art, she should be collecting pants--and large sizes at that.

MRS. A. M. EDWARDS

Orillia, Ont.

The Pope

Sir:

The Nov. 10 cover of Pope John XXIII is one of your finest. The face is of a strong man who is conveying a sense of deep sympathy to a younger brother in arms.

JOHN F. BARRY

New York City

Sir:

The election of the Pope has been suitably commemorated by cover pictures on both TIME and LIFE. In view of the Roman Catholic Church's prowess as a money-making organization, I think it would be a mistake not to put his picture also on the cover of FORTUNE.

WILLIAM S. MINKLER Pittsburgh

Sir:

Does the fact that the U.S. Government sent representatives to both the funeral and coronation of the Pope and none at all to the installation of the president of the World Council of Churches and National Council of Churches show Catholic influence in the government or just plain carelessness?

DOWNS HEROLD Bradford, Pa.

Sir:

Congratulations for your fine reporting on Pope Pius XII's death and Pope John XXII's election. To pass over in silence--as some of your readers would have had you do--events of such importance, would have been a clear manifestation both of lack of culture and of lack of realism.

LEI SHAN, S.J. Chutung, Formosa

From the Faithful

Sir:

In your Sept. 8 article "The Generous Lender," reference is made to a certain controversial figure whose unique banking methods are under investigation by the Italian Parliament. Your untrue statement says: "Not long after [Giambattista] Giuffre's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace." Signor Giuffre never visited outhouse at Cesta di Copparo, nor has he ever donated so much as one Italian lira to the purchase of our land, or toward the erection of the monastery and church. All is being paid for with free-will offerings of the faithful--Signor Giuffre not included.

REV. MALCOLM LAV"ELLE. C.P.

Superior General Passionist Fathers Rome

CJ TIME erred.--ED.

PTA Meeting

Sir:

Your Nov. 10 report covering the court-martial of ten soldier-scientists at the Army Chemical Center was an interesting and humorous account of a serious problem within the Army science program. As parents of one of the young men, we attended the trial. It brought out their fine official military record and excellent technical performance; because of a seemingly trivial and questionable offense, a criminal stigma has been placed alongside these records. Would it not be better to remove the underlying causes of this disunity than to jeopardize the futures of young men in an attempt to improve an untenable situation?

MR. & MRS. E. D. DICKERMAN Crown Point, Ind.

Sir:

As one of the accused in the recent court-martial, I would like to thank you for your fair and generally accurate coverage of the event.

(PVT.) E. L. DICKERMAN Army Chemical Center, Md.

Sir:

Drafting scientists is foolish. They can serve the nation better as civilians.

L. E. GIDDINGS JR.

Nashville

Sir:

These college-trained scientists who never wanted to be drafted think they are better than everybody because they went to college while we were keeping them safe for democracy. We'll straighten those jerks out.

(M/SGT.) R. A. MOMSER Redstone Arsenal, Ala.

The Hollywood Lot

Sir:

Re a Nov. 17 Show Business item on Marilyn Monroe in MGM's Some Like It Hot: M-G-M does not stand for Metro's Got Monroe. Billy VVilder's Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, is a Mirisch-Ashton production for United Artists' release.

HAROLD MIRISCH Hollywood

P: T-G-M-U stands for TIME got mixed up.--Eo.

Sir:

Your Nov. 3 issue comments on the Hollywood Production Code, but isn't it strange (and frightening, because it reflects the morals of our country) this Code doesn't want sexual promiscuity to appear to be accepted or commonplace, but it allows murder, violence and sadism to appear to be the usual and expected?

CAROL M. SUMMERS Chicago

Sir:

In your Nov. 17 SHOW BUSINESS you reprinted an item regarding Juliette Greco, Carl Foreman and myself which appeared in a [London] column. I request that you correct the impression that I discovered Juliette Greco in a subterranean boite--unless you consider the Empire Room at the Waldorf-Astoria a subterranean boite. When Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer recommended Miss Greco for a role in The Sun Also Rises, I had never seen her or met her, but she had already appeared in four films. I engaged her for The Sun Also Rises because of the prominence that TIME and LIFE magazines gave her Waldorf appearance. I have had many proteges in my career as a producer, including Shirley Temple, James Cagney and Bette Davis, but, alas, not Juliette Greco.

TIME is too big to fall for such baseless hokum and this includes the preposterous paragraph referring to my visit to Germany.

DARRYL F. ZANUCK

Paris

P: TIME has rechecked the base, admits

no hokum, grants that Mr. Zanuck

found Miss Greco at the Waldorf,

agrees that her place in his cosmogony

has never been that of Shirley Temple

-ED.

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