Dick & Nick

Sir:

I wish to congratulate you on your story of "the new diplomacy," as dramatized by Vice President Richard M. Nixon's visit to Moscow [Aug. 3]. Why shouldn't the leaders of the nations meet, rub shoulders, wave fists and argue occasionally in public? Why shouldn't the peoples of the nations meet and discuss, argue and risk an occasional sock in the jaw? Altogether it is good, sharp, educational stuff for both us and the Russians.

LEONARD WARE

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

It was most unseemly and undignified for the Vice President of the U.S. to engage in a public brawl with that expert in that field, Mr. Khrushchev, and worse still that he came off second best. After all, he should have remembered the technique of the late Joe McCarthy.

RALPH P. SYMONS

London

Sir:

Napoleon's Russian campaign doomed his domination. Nixon's Russian campaign boomed his nomination.

JOSEPH J. BAEHNER

Philadelphia

Sir:

Congress' joint resolution proclaiming "Captive Nations Week" was stupidly ill-timed and completely worthless.

RICHARD BECK

Flourtown, Pa.

The Cancer War

Sir:

This office enjoyed and appreciated the article regarding Dr. John Heller of the National Cancer Institute and recent advances made in cancer research that appeared in the July 27 issue of TIME.

R. WAYNE ESTES

American Cancer Society

Tennessee Division, Inc.

Nashville, Tenn.

Grand Old Problem

Sir:

For heaven's sake, tell me, a reader in one of the most southern isles of the Antipodes, what does G.O.P. stand for?

MRS. F. HOGAN

New Town, Tasmania

P: For the Antipodes' sake, G.O.P. stands for Grand Old Party. The initials, referring to the Republican party, first came into use in the late 19th century. They have been variously attributed to an American adaptation of "Grand Old Man," affectionate nickname for Prime Minister Gladstone, political cartoonists' use of the abbreviation for convenience' sake (see cut*), and a Cincinnati Gazette printer who was short of space.--ED.

The Colonel & the Ladies

Sir:

It was a real pleasure to read "The Colonel's Crusade" [July 27] and to learn that at long last, a military man had developed guts enough to tell the ladies to dress and act like ladies and not like a bunch of cheap prostitutes advertising their wares.

JAKE P. SHERMAN

Phoebus, Va.

Sir:

I do not live in Washington Heights, but in its counterpart Grant Heights. The individual who made the remark, "Never had it so good," must not know what a decent American home is like.

Neither myself nor my three teen-aged children have been guilty of the "crimes" Colonel Johnstone mentions, but I do not like living under the command of Hitler Jr. with his mass punishment.

LUCILE ROBERTS

Tokyo, Japan

Sir:

I, along with numerous other men I know who served in Japan or are still serving there, was thoroughly disgusted and shocked at the way American women and children conducted themselves on foreign soil. I have seen women practically naked running the streets half "shot" and fully "shot," have heard them use language that a 30-year sergeant would blush to hear.

We need more men like Colonel Johnstone who are not afraid of these tanks in lipstick, earrings and short shorts.

DOUG MITCHELL

Sycamore, III.

Sir:

I'm a serviceman's wife and have been stationed with my husband in Japan and in Europe, and at times I've been pretty disgusted with the way many of the young wives dress--or rather undress--when they know that they will be seen in public. I'd like to see the same kind of restrictions placed on attire in the suburban supermarkets, and especially on tourists who are visiting some of the important places in the nation's capital.

JULIA T. BEARD

Washington, D.C.

Wild Horse Annie

Sir:

Re the July 27 issue of our favorite newsmagazine: Good going and more power to Wild Horse Annie and her campaign [to prevent mustang hunting by airplane and truck]. I wonder how many of our "animal-loving" dog owners realized or even dreamed of the type of food they were passing on to their pampered pups.

STANLEY A. SPRECHER

Austin, Minn.

Sir:

Thank you for your interest in this legislation.

It was for the purpose of opposing the amendment proposed by the Department of the Interior that I went to Washington and testified before the committee. Their amendment would have rendered H.R. 2725 useless for the prohibition of the airborne and mechanized operations. Also, the pictures that I used to document my evidence were taken by Gus Bundy, a local photographer, who went along on an actual roundup to obtain them.

MRS. VELMA B. ("ANNIE") JOHNSTON

Reno

Witness' Confusion

Sir:

As administrative assistant to the late Vincent Astor, and temporary administrator of his estate, I am distressed to find that TIME, in its issue of Aug. 3, published an erroneous statement to the effect that Captain Astor was a patient in the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic at the time his will was being drawn. It grew out of a witness' unfortunate confusion between the Baker Pavilion of New York Hospital and the Payne Whitney clinic. The fact is that the late Captain Astor was never at any time in his life in the Payne Whitney clinic, or in any other psychiatric institution. Captain Astor went to New York Hospital in May 1958 to be treated for a circulatory condition of the left foot. He occupied private room No. 1702 in the Baker Pavilion from May 21 to June 3, when the foot condition was sufficiently relieved to enable him to leave the hospital.

ALLAN W. BETTS

New York City

P: TIME erred, should have gone further into court record,--ED.

Statement of Faith

Sir:

A belated but appreciative thank you for your July 20 report on the United Church of Christ. I mentioned in my sermon of last Sunday in reviewing the Oberlin General Synod how TIME had printed the adopted Statement of Faith, and its importance to all Protestants.

(THE REV.) EDWARD A. PUFF

Memorial Evangelical & Reformed Church

Dayton

Sir:

So the United Church of Christ has "omitted" Jesus' virgin birth "so as to emphasize" that he was no more God than Dr. Arndt. Without amendment of this gospel, its followers might easily become the United Church of Christ, Mohammed, Buddha and Vishnu.

TOM HARTREY

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Inflammatory Bathing Suit

Sir:

Regarding poor little Sue Ingersoll and her inflammatory bathing suit [July 27]: Can anything be more apparent from this episode than that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is using any and every means to control our public life? Pretty soon we won't be able to do anything much in a public way without the permission of Archbishop So-and-So.

KATHRYN N. RHODES

Hayward, Calif.

Sir:

What a furor over a mere bathing suit! One is bound to feel sorry for the poor tormented celibates who find such things as girls-in-bathing-suits lust-inciting and damaging to morals.

J. ADDISON SMITH

Seattle

Sir:

In general, we Lakota (Sioux) are learning to conform to the customs of our white brothers and sisters. There is one custom that we do not intend to conform to--bathing beauty contests. Even the poorest of our Lakota women manage to cover their nakedness. They do not make public display of their bare hide or their bathing habits.

When we see pictures of bathing contests and half-naked cheerleaders, we hope that the mosquitoes will have good hunting.

SILAS LEFT HAND BULL

Pine Ridge, S.Dak.

A.A.

Sir:

My sympathy to Letter Writer L. J. Barnett of Larchmont, N.Y. [July 20]. I also get mad at TIME. But I am such a hopeless addict that I recently filed a five-year subscription to the rag. I suggest to Mr. Barnett that we organize a "TIME Addicts Anonymous" society.

W. W. GOULD

Cristobal, C.Z.

Mr. Wonderful

Sir:

Your July 27 issue contained an article about Fabian. This article was obviously written by some poor, misled jerk. I hope that in the future you will have a little more respect for a great teen-age idol.

SHERRY READ

El Monte, Calif.

Sir:

Who do you think you are? Mr. Wonderful? "Tuneless Tiger" indeed! Fabian is a nice, handsome boy and comes from a good family. I shall return.

SUZANNA MARIE CAMILLE BLAKE

Detroit

Sir:

Think back to when you were a teen-ager--maybe in the days of Rudy Vallee or Johnny Mercer or the Charleston of the Roaring '20s. Well, if you weren't what we call a square, you would have had your "teenage fun" with these artists. It was your generation (with all respect) that broke away from the slow ballroom dance to the faster jitterbug, big apple, Charleston.

STEVE LOVE

Fullerton, Calif.

Word from Capitol Hill

Sir:

I have just been reading the July 27 issue of TIME and particularly the article entitled "The Moment of Truth." Of course I am always pleased when my name appears in TIME, so this is not a complaint. TIME is entitled to its view about Hubert Humphrey even when that view is very irritating to Humphrey. But you have taken the liberty to quote me wholly out of context. Your article says: "Humphrey himself senses the public's present wariness of pie-in-the-sky liberalism. 'It's the most dangerous thing in the world,' he says. 'That's what happened to Stevenson.' " And then the article goes on talking about Humphrey being a New Dealer as if my mental growth had stopped about 1936. That is sufficiently insulting, but I can take that since it is a matter of opinion. However, the quotation is a matter of outright distortion and I do object.

In other words, I did not refer to pie-in-the-sky liberalism, but to the press of events which compresses the news into capsules, and stereotyping of people and things.

I further said that liberalism is not merely the power of the purse, but it is idealism. There has been a change in what we call liberalism--into a qualitative liberalism with emphasis on civil liberties, human rights, and the relationship of our nation to the world about us.

HUBERT H. HUMPHREY

U.S. Senate

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

A part-time critic of TIME has a confession to make. As one of the central actors in the drama that has unfolded at the House Education and Labor Committee during the past six weeks, I must say that the most honest and accurate reporting which has appeared anywhere in the press is that which I have read in the last two issues of TIME. In my opinion, this is a classic example of a "big" story which never became "news" in the daily press, but which finally saw print in your journal.

STEWART L. UDALL

House of Representatives

Washington, D.C.

*Captioned "Little Roosevelt! ! !--The Grand Old Party Must Be Hard-Up!," the 1884 cartoon by Joseph Keppler shows Republican Bigwigs Frank Hiscock, Chauncey Depew, Horace Porter. Henry Cabot Lodge and Stephen B. Elkins gathered clockwise around Theodore Roosevelt and dressing him in the armor of party leadership.

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