Road to Success
SIR:
TIME HAS DONE A TREMENDOUS SERVICE TO CANCER CONTROL IN ITS JULY 27 STORY ON HELLER AND THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE. PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF CANCER AND ITS PROBLEMS WILL HASTEN SUCCESS.
CHARLES C. HANSBURY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
NEW JERSEY DIVISION
NEWARK
A Dip in Cold Water
Sir:
I feel, in justice to Westminster school, that I should reveal the unpalatable truth that [Britain's Labor Party leader] Mr. Hugh Gaitskell was educated at Winchester College, and not at Westminster, as stated in your issue of July 20.
The boys at Winchester have from time immemorial been obliged to take a dip in a tubful of cold water before breakfast--hangers-back being dunked forcibly. Ever since Mr. Gaitskell's rise to notoriety, there has been a rumor prevalent at his old school that it was his treatment in that institution which led to his subsequent quaint opinions about capitalists and, inter alia, the education of their progeny.
D. F. ROBSON
London
The Card Mart
Sir:
Thanks for a great story on the Washington Senators' "Awesome Foursome," the "Killers' Row" of current baseball [July 20]. The diehard fans of this team finally have something to keep their hopes alive. Even Casey Stengel takes cover when the Senators arrive.
CHET ANDERSON
Hyattsville, Md.
Sir:
In Sport you have a quote, "I'll give 20 [baseball cards] for one of Killebrew" and "twenty, too" for Allison, "but nobody's got any."
I have Allisons about five times and Killebrew once. Mantle is worth five cards at the most, unless he hits 60.
BRIAN HARTSHORN (AGE 13)
Hollis, N.Y.
Sir:
I saw your story about baseball cards and the guy in Washington who will give 20 for a Bob Allison. Here is my Bob Allison, so please have him send me 20 cards, including a Mickey Mantle. P.S.: No doubles.
RUSTY MCKELLAR (AGE 9)
Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Twenty baseball cards, including a Mickey Mantle, are on their way to Reader McKellar (no doubles).--ED.
The Persuader
Sir:
In your issue of July 13, you inferred that I was engaging in a revolt against the leadership of Lyndon Johnson. That was not how I felt about it. He is the ablest majority leader in the history of the Senate. Don't blame me because I tried to persuade Johnson to do things my way. He persuades me to do them his way often enough.
RUSSELL LONG
United States Senate Washington
Men of Steel
Sir:
Congratulations on your fine cover article on Roger Blough of U.S. Steel [July 20]. It focuses attention on labor's power, organization and relative invulnerability to corporate restrictions, as compared to business.
J. H. CLARK
New York City
Sir:
Ten years ago most U.S. manufacturers could afford to export on a C.I.F. (cash-in-fist) basis. But today the manufacturer who wants export business does give credit terms abroad. One thing would aid U.S. manufacturers in export selling--having our Government backing them up on extended credit terms abroad, as do West Germany and the United Kingdom for their manufacturers.
RICHARD G. LURIE
Editor
American Exporter
New York City
Sir:
Up to now (rhymes with Blough), it occurred to me that union men might have at least wondered if Mr. "Man of Steel's" name was pronounced "Blow" or "Bluff."
FRANCES UPHAM
Chicago
Sir:
Why can't U.S. Steel give a io
Bedford, Ind.
Sir:
You say that labor did all the getting and U.S. Steel all the giving. On the contrary, U.S. Steel took more than its share, too. It was the consumer who did all the giving.
CLAYTON STANHOPE
Montclair, Calif.
Beauty & the Archbishop
Sir:
If one may judge by the action of Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne in threatening to deny the sacraments of Communion and confession to both Sue Simone Ingersoll and her mother for Sue's acts [July 20], then it would seem that the Roman Catholic Church has taken a leaf from Communism's book. It has learned how to punish an offender through the offender's loved ones.
Louis J. HEBEL
Louisville
Sir:
It is reassuring to have such a staunch protector of morals as Archbishop Byrne. Now if we can just elect a Roman Catholic President and a majority of Hail Mary Senators and Congressmen, this protection may well be extended to Protestants.
WALTER SIBLEY
Nuevo, Calif.
Sir:
Each time I read an article similar to yours concerning Sue Ingersoll and Archbishop Byrne, I am less disturbed over the fact that I and thousands of others are "falling away" from the Catholic Church each year.
JOHN A. BANCH
Gary, Ind.
The Hot Wire
Sir:
It gives one that satisfying feeling to read what Admiral Rickover said to Frol Kozlov at Shippingport [July 20]. I'm in favor of sending Ricky to sit in at conference with the Russkies. A hot wire like the admiral could put some spark into the doings.
H. R. SCHNITZER
Bayonne, N.J.
Revelation?
Sir:
Re your July 13 story on Alabama Baptist and Methodist opposition to Governor John Patterson's endorsement of Senator John Kennedy for 1960: the Alabama Baptist and the Methodist Christian Advocate would appear to be far more "determined and power-hungry" than any "Romanist hierarchy" they condemn. As for Senator Kennedy's being "hopelessly dominated by the Catholic hierarchy," one doubts if any Catholic journal has ever dictated to him how he should vote.
MRS. FRANK ROSSI
Fair Lawn, N.J.
Sir:
So the Catholic-baiting legions are at last on the march in Alabama. Good. By next year, with the anti-Catholic madness reaching its peak, Southern Protestantism will again be revealed for what it is: an obscene collection of bigoted, Bible-clutching morons, the benighted cult of a corrupt and appallingly stupid society.
ANTHONY J. JOES
Philadelphia
Drug on the Market
Sir:
I read with interest in the July 13 issue of TIME of the moves being made by the Thai government to stop the opium trade. During 1957-59 I lived with the Miao people. I have refrained from publishing my photographs of the opium growing because this is the sole cash crop of the people. But as it is to be stopped that reason no longer holds.
The pod is scraped with a three-pronged scraper early in the morning, and the opium taken off with a knife before noon and wrapped in a poppy petal [see cut]. Stopping the opium trade is only half the problem. It is necessary to give these people other sources of income, as opium has been traditionally their source for trade goods. They get a low price for it, the profit going to unknown people further down the drug train.
W. R. GEDDES
Professor of Social Anthropology University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
The Murmuring Pines ...
SIR:
THANK YOU FOR YOUR FINE ARTICLE AND THE SPLENDID COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE STORY ON THE FOREST SERVICE [JULY 20].
RICHARD E. MCARDLE
CHIEF
FOREST SERVICE
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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