Range in the Home
Sir:
Haven't seen a western yet that was as much fun as your March 30 article. I move we all get back to reading.
KATHRYN BLOOMFIELD
Altoona, Pa.
Sir:
We would be most happy to see the last roundup of about nine-tenths of your swaggering B.G.s and G.G.s alike with a subsequent mass-dumping in the nearest bottomless horse trough.
EUNICE EDWARDS
Franklin, Tenn.
Sir:
With measurements such as James Arness' (48-36-36) and Dale Robertson's (42-34-34), it's obvious that the great western heroes walk the way they do not because of prolonged horse-straddling but because they are trying to hold up their pants.
MRS. LEE S. COOPER
Long Beach, Calif.
Sir:
You missed the bull's-eye by not including details on the tops of all the "Galahads," the most able, the finest voice, the most thoughtful star of them all--Robert Horton of Wagon Train.
MARY ELLEN RIPLEY
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio "details": 42-31 1/2-40.-
P: Horton's ED.
Sir:
You missed Gunsmoke's Chester, Actor Dennis Weaver.
DAISY JOHNSON
Anaheim, Calif.
Sir:
. . . Robert Gulp in Trackdown . . .
W. N. KUENEMAN
Grinnell, Iowa
Sir:
. . . Ernie Fleming in Rawhide . . .
Louis H. BAUER
Berkeley, Calif. P: See cuts.--ED.
Sir:
The debunking of Western badmen in your March 30 issue included too many errors to be ignored. If Wild Bill Hickok was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe in the year 1890, he was there in spirit only. Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall. The carets Bill was holding fell to the floor face up--aces and eights, known ever after as the "dead man's hand."
L. E. LEIPOLD
Principal
Nokomis Junior High School
Minneapolis
P: Wild Bill toured with Buffalo Bill's troupe in the flesh in 1872-73.--ED.
Sir:
Hugh O'Brian, who plays Wyatt Earp, only wears one Buntline Special and some kind of Colt sidearm. Please look into this matter.
ROBERT L. BINGHAM
Age 11
Lansdowne, Pa.
P: Hugh O'Brian's other revolver is a standard Colt .45 Peacemaker.--ED.
Summit Time
Sir:
The Eisenhower-Macmillan agreement to accept Polish and Czechoslovakian observers at the May foreign ministers' conference should indeed "look fine" to Nikita Khrushchev. Every additional conference at which the dummy governments of Russia's colonies are given recognition adds to their populations' resignation of mind, and makes it possible for Russia to keep fewer troops and tanks in such imprisoned countries to control the people. The Russian hoods are hoodwinking us again.
JEROME MAZOR
Plymouth Meeting, Pa.
Sir:
Re the foreign ministers' conference and summit meeting proposals: against the rigid rigidity of Mao and the inflexible inflexibility of Khrushchev, our flexible rigidity cannot win. May I suggest that we switch to rigid flexibility ?
UMBERTO GARBASSI
Astoria, N.Y.
Persecution in Spain
Sir:
Your accurate reporting of the civil and religious persecution of Protestants in Franco's Roman Catholic Spain fails to note that this policy had the full approval of the Vatican [March 30]. You have given the U.S. a glimpse of what could happen here under the domination of a politically minded, autocratic church and subservient politicians.
CALVIN V. SMALHEER
Gates Mills, Ohio
Sir:
Why Protestants want to destroy the deep-rooted faith of Spanish Catholics is a mystery. Millions of human beings throughout the world have never even heard the name of Jesus; yet Protestants want to continue spending their time and money dividing Christianity.
WILLIAM FAY
Los Angeles
Sir:
With regard to suppression of Protestantism in Spain, one needs only to view the legal imposition of Protestant beliefs in this country through Prohibition and the blue laws to realize that Protestants lack only the power, and not the desire, to do likewise.
JOHN A. MURPHY
Arlington, Texas
Down in the Dumps
Sir:
My jingoism got a big lift when I read about that increasingly famous institution, the Hingham town dump, an out-of-door cracker barrel where you meet your friends and neighbors of a Sunday [March 30]. Our youngest son, at the age of four, used to ask every out-of-town guest in true booster fashion, "Have you seen the dump?"
MARGARET LEE SOUTHARD
Hingham, Mass.
Sir:
Out here, going to the town dump in a nearby canyon has long been a favorite pastime, not only on Sunday. In the cool of the evening, the pines surround the area, dark and mysterious, and the purple mountains are etched against the glow of the setting sun. Families of sleek skunks sally forth to seek food in among the old car bodies, washing machines, boxes, and tires. Indeed we must claim the most beautiful dump in the country.
GRACE D. TRENEMAN
Newport, Wash.
Number 50
Sir:
Your interesting article on Hawaii in the March 23 issue is incomplete in omitting the happenings between 1893 and 1898. My recollection is that Hawaii was annexed, then dis-annexed, due to differences of opinion and understanding between Liliuokalani and President Grover Cleveland and U.S. Commissioner "Paramount" Blount. The latter acted too hastily. The Republicans made much of this to the tune of Little Annie Rooney:
She is my Lili--/ am her Grove;
She has me muddled. Yes, by Jove
I Soon it will be over, and with her I'll be through;
Liliuokalani is my Hoodoo.
Hawaii is of more interest to me than to the average "mainlander," as my father, Capt. George H. Wadleigh, was in command of the Philadelphia on the occasion of the 21-gun salute that you mention.
GEORGE R. WADLEIGH
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Sir:
As a public service, couldn't you give the residents of the 49 other states a brief guide to Hawaiian pronunciation?
ELIZABETH O. DEAN
Johnson City, N.Y.
P:I The consonants in the Hawaiian alphabet are h, k, 1, m, n, p, w. They are pronounced as they are in English. The vowels are pronounced a as in ah, e as in long a, i as in long e, o as in oh, and u as in oo. Aloha.--ED.
The Tillich Controversy
Sir:
I was disturbed by the many uncomplimentary letters concerning Paul Tillich [March 30]. Please be informed that not all Lutherans are so bigoted. Those professors on our faculty who are alert to the problems facing the church today take Tillich with utter seriousness, and welcome his insight and analysis.
JOHN BUERK '59
Lutheran Theological Seminary
Gettysburg, Pa.
Sir:
I still think that John Herman Randall Jr. gave one of the best descriptions of Paul Tillich's system--an enlarged naturalism which seeks to make room for the concerns of esthetics, religion, etc.
I owe it to Paul Tillich to say that he is a most kind and civilized man, intellectually a challenging and stimulating teacher--a gadfly- whose stings have raised many a philosophic welt on me, yet possessed of marvelously devastating apologetic insights. By the grace of God I survived Paul Tillich, and hope to remain a Lutheran still in the classical Christian tradition.
(THE REV.) RICHARD KLANN
Lutheran Student Service
Bayside, N.Y.
Sir:
It is deplorable that letters criticizing Paul Tillich's theology should have been written mostly by leaders of organized religion.
Organized religion has almost always been opposed to advances in religious thought. It crucified Jesus. It burned Servetus, and banished Roger Williams. Now Tillich is meeting with the same kind of opposition in a more civilized form.
CHARLES WELLS
Harlingen A.F.B., Texas
*Another famous gadfly was Socrates, who said, in his Apology to the Athenians. "I ... am a sort of gadfly . . . and the State is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life."
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