The Price of Peace
Sir:
"What Price Peace?" (TIME, July 21) is the most lucid rationalization of our position in the postwar world yet to appear in print. . . .
VICTOR H. KRULAK Lieutenant Colonel, U.S.M.C. Quantico, Va.
Sir:
. . . Congratulations on a superb job. I am making it compulsory reading for my students. . . .
ARTHUR J. MARDER University of California Santa Barbara, Calif.
Sir:
. . . Now I shall have ammunition to throw against my near-sighted friends who cannot see that, in underwriting a rehabilitation program for Europe, we are not magnanimously playing Santa Claus for the whole world but are, in reality, trying to save our own necks. . . .
LEONARD JACKSON Bay City, Mich.
Sir:
Thank you. ... In clarifying the issues in the current world struggle you have rendered your country a service of incalculable value.
PAUL S. JAMES Pastor The Baptist Tabernacle Atlanta
Right Pass, Wrong Professor
Sir:
Thanks for the bang-up Pamplona bullfight story by Charlie Wertenbaker (TIME, July 21), but . . . unless the wiry "professor" has gained 20 pounds or so--plus a new face--since his Mexican fights last winter, TIME mixed its pix. . . .
MORGAN MONROE Publisher Chatham Courier Chatham, NJ.
Sir:
I was surprised to see "Manolete's" name under the photograph of an unknown bullfighter executing a "manoletina." This pass is supposed to be an invention of his, but I am sure the identity of the "matador" was yours.
M. R. Zozaya New York City
P: Said Manolete when shown the picture in Madrid: "Not me . . . though the matador is performing a very fine 'manoletina.' I have never been that fat and since I've been a full-fledged matador I've never been that short either. . . ."--ED.
Mormon Beliefs
Sir:
Thank you very much for your article on "Utah, A Peculiar People" (TIME, July 21). I found the article very interesting and quite fair to the Mormon Church.
However, there are some parts of the write-up which present an untrue view of the beliefs and practices of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
We, the people of the Mormon Church, believe that President George Albert Smith, the Prophet, Seer, and Revelator for the church today, can, and does receive revelation from the Almighty and His servants. . . . The last revelation was not the one ending the practice of polygamy ; it is merely the last revelation contained or recorded in the "Doctrine and Covenants," one of our Church Standards. There have been many revelations, visions, etc. since . . . and I am quite sure that there will continue to be. . . .
You state that the Prophet Joseph Smith found no hidden gold. He did. He found the gold plates upon which the Book of Mormon was inscribed. . . . The symbols found on them were no more mystic than written French to a fourth-grade American schoolboy. Magic Spectacles which you mention [are] undoubtedly the Urim and Thummim, an affair which was worn on the person, much as a telephone operator's mouthpiece, and which is not to be confused with the seer-stone. . . .
Those men who practiced polygamy were only those who were authorized to do so, and then I assure you that they did not marry the wives of other Mormons who were "handily away on missions." The wives whom they married were those who were previously unmarried, and then only by the approval of the other wives.
The remainder of the article I find very informative and as a whole quite correct. . . . I find the high spot in the statement telling how President Smith shares his working hours with the pastime of "slyly popping bonbons into his mouth." It may also be mentioned that he can always be noticed stroking his goatee with his left hand. . . .
JAMES R. SAULS JR. Jacksonville Ward, Florida Stake Jacksonville, Fla.
Ivy League
Sir:
In reference to the editor's note on why the University of Pennsylvania is not the fourth oldest university in the country,* I have but one thing to say: "Is the editor a Princeton man?"
HAROLD S. ROSENBLUTH (Penn '47) Philadelphia
P: No, by lux et veritas.--ED.
Slate Cleaned
Sir:
TIME, July 28 says Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis "are making a movie for Paramount." Paramount is making a picture with the background of West Point, tentatively entitled The Long Grey Line, but Blanchard and Davis aren't in it. I believe they are in Hollywood working for another producer. They're good guys and we wish them luck.
RUSSELL HOLMAN Eastern Production Manager Paramount Pictures Inc. New York City
Sir:
. . . FACT IS THAT PICTURE IS BEING MADE BY JOHN W. ROGERS AND HARRY JOE BROWN FOR INDEPENDENT RELEASE. . . . SLATE IN SCENE IS FOR FILM CUTTER AND DIRECTOR'S USE IN FINAL CUTTING OF PICTURE, INDICATING PROPER SEQUENCE OF SCENES. NO PRISON PICTURE THIS BUT WELL DONE STORY OF FOOTBALL TWINS' FAME AT WEST POINT AND AT HOME, GIVING PUBLIC WHO COULD NOT SEE ARMY TEAM IN ACTION CHANCE TO SEE THREE-TIME ALL-AMERICAN BOYS IN ACTION.
JACK MULCAHY Hollywood, Calif.
P: For compounding abstruseness with misstatement. TIME's PEOPLE editor has been sent back to Beast Barracks.--Ed.
* Although Penn dates its founding from 1740, the college was not chartered until 1755.
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