Everything's Jake

Sir: I don't want a Jew in the White House, or a Protestant, or a Catholic. What I want is a man of vision and courage; a man who sees the world as it is today, not as it was 20 years ago; a man who is fired with passion, not for his party, but for humanity--a statesman, not a politician. If Sen. Jacob Javits [June 24], who happens to be a Jew, fulfills these requirements, I would be delighted to see him in the White House.

LILLIAN KLINE

Fall River, Mass.

Sir: I might as well vote for Jacob; I have voted for every Tom, Dick and Barry the last 20 years.

E. P. KEARNS

Winter Park, Fla.

Sir: Somebody showed me where you got some nameless guy, they most always are when a writer needs a quote, saying about Marion Javits wanting the Senator to see Hugh O'Brian and Columnist Jimmy Breslin! before taking a trip to Viet Nam. Marvelous. Now let's see. There was a third name there that Marion Javits kept yelling at her Jack to talk to before he went to Viet Nam. I think if you would call Marion Javits she would tell it to you. I think you ought to print the third name, too. Marion Javits' idea of whom he should see before going to Viet Nam was Actor Hugh O'Brian and Columnist Jimmy Breslin! and Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce! Beautiful. Let's be complete now. It doesn't hurt being complete. All your guy has got to do is type three more words out. Clare Boothe Luce.

JIMMY BRESLIN

New York City

Bed, Breakfast & Benny

Sir: One wonders whether De Gaulle has read Don Quixote. I think he has. Its influence on him has obviously been great--almost as great as that of all those books about knighthood on poor Don Quixote. The re-enactment of the Inn scene is first class: Don Quixote de Gaulle, encountering the Kremlin's "Bed and Breakfast plus Extras" sign, surely exclaims to his faithful servant, Sancho Couve de Murville, over the wondrous castle before them, and says that surely De Gaulle must receive tributes from the lord of the castle, and in turn pay homage to the beautiful lady therein.

K. MILNER

Madrid

Sir: It's a bust! It doesn't resemble De Gaulle at all: it looks like Jack Benny.

MARGY DOWNS

Bethesda, Md.

Heroes All Around

Sir: TIME'S belief that Sergeant York was the only hero to emerge from World War I [June 24] is unfortunate. Haven't you overlooked T. E. Lawrence, whom Winston Churchill called "one of the greatest beings alive in our time"?

R. ALAN JONES

Cleveland

Sir: Truman's epic 1948 campaign against the overwhelmingly favored Dewcy was heroism in the American tradition.

HIRAM A. HANSEN

Cincinnati

Sir: You have neglected the greatest hero of our generation: Dr. Tom Dooley.

TOM ROWLANDS

Huhbard, Ohio

Sir: Audie Murphy.

PHILIP A. CAPEN

Greenfield. Mass.

Sir: Arnold Palmer.

J. RICHARD HILBOKY

HARRY A. DISHONG

Johnstown, Pa.

Host with the Least

Sir: Gauche, immature, graceless, unable to assimilate its squalling minorities, New York is a sad choice for host city to foreign guests. The Feisal fiasco [July 1] should make it clear that this brash, mannerless city is the last place to demonstrate the U.S. at its best.

NANETTE KING

New York City

Misconduct in Office

Sir: In the interest of accuracy and for the sake of publicly stating my motives once and for all, I feel compelled to comment on your report of the Dodd investigation [July 1] as it relates to my cooperation with Pearson and Anderson. Miss Terry Golden and I began assisting Anderson as fully as any members of the group involved in mid-August 1965. We did so because we believed that we were witness to grave misconduct in office. In my testimony before the Committee on Standards and Conduct. I volunteered that I took the bulk of the documents with which I was particularly concerned on the weekend that Miss Golden was dismissed. Your article implies a possible motive of bitterness or revenge over her dismissal. Nothing could be further from the truth. Under ordinary circumstances, we would have welcomed Miss Golden's departure from the office at this time: it was the equivalent of being exiled from Rome the day before it burned. As it was, however, we feared that Senator Dodd had finally learned of our participation in the forthcoming expose. Therefore, believing that I might be enjoying access to the office files for the last time, I removed the remaining evidence to substantiate the charges that were to be made later.

MICHAEL V. O'HARE

Washington, D.C.

Old Faithfuls

Sir: Please don't add to the motorman's duties [June 24). It was the conductor who pulled an overhead rope, which rang a bell once to stop, twice to go, sometimes thrice to back up. The motorman's bell, operated by a button on the floor, warned pedestrians or horse-drawn wagons that preferred the smoothness of the tracks to the rough, jarring cobblestones.

EDGAR McHUTCHISON

Ridgefield, NJ.

Sir: I trust you will not let the full story of the streetcar named Desire escape notice. New Orleans trolley No. 832 was the vehicle used to promote Mr. Williams' play: the same car was later used in the film adaptation. Therefore, if any vehicle can lay claim to being the streetcar named Desire, it is faithful old 832, which is operating at the Arden Trolley Museum near Pittsburgh, awaiting (on Sundays) the intrigued. That car in California is a modern (horrors!) impostor.

Yours trolley,

TOM E. PARKINSON

President

Pennsylvania Railway Museum Assn. Inc.

Pittsburgh

Those Wynning Ways

Sir: Your lovely tribute to Ed Wynn [July 1] reminds me of a great line I heard the great man ad-lib one night in a long-forgotten show at some theater long since passed from memory. Whatever the musical was, it had just moved to a new theater from the Broadhurst, and Ed Wynn appeared in the first scene rowing (without oars or boat) across the bare stage floor, pushing himself with his heels. Suddenly he looked up at the audience and said, "Why, it's just as shallow here as it was at the Broadhoist!"

RICHARD L. TOBIN

Managing Editor

Saturday Review

New York City

All About Love

Sir: VASSS [June 24], my elbow! Move Koufax three feet behind the pitcher's mound; give Unitas three carries for a first down: make Ryun run a 5.283-ft. mile. Let's shove all this down the fans' throats before we make Pancho slow down his cannon ball. Mediocrity will cheer the promoters. The richest pro tournament in tennis history would have been richer by one if word hadn't "leaked" out about the service-line rule. Keep tennis a curiosity. Wimbledon doesn't have a gate problem. If this is tradition, make the most of it. As for me, give me deuce, advantage and, above all, love.

MICHAEL L. EBY

Huntington, N.Y.

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