Senatorial Soup

Sir:

Senator Taft's "Let 'em eat less!" [TIME, Sept. 22] reminds me of the story of the welfare worker who was instructing a group of low-income housewives how to make nutritious soup from a soup bone. When she finished she inquired if there were any questions.

A gaunt lady in the rear asked: "What I want to know is, who got the meat off that bone?" . . .

TED F. SILVEY Washington, D.C.

The New Look

Sir:

The answer to the question on TIME'S [Sept. 15] cover--"Who wants the New Look?"--is appropriately contained in the word printed immediately beneath: "Business."

Those least desirous of it: men.

(REV.) TOM FUHR New York City

Sir:

. . . The New Look is expensive, uncomfortable, impractical, and unshapely and I DON'T LIKE IT!

LAUREL WEBER Seattle

Sir:

Here's to Sophie, here's to Gimbel,

The smartest gal to wear a thimble!

Rosenstein and Schiaparelli

Put pads on hip, behind and belly;

But Sophie, in her clever way,

Will keep us smart without a stay! . . .

JEAN MITCHELL

Aurora, Colo.

Sir:

. . . The other designers must realize in the near future that they have been designing masquerade fashions for the smallest part of our population, the idle rich, who step from home to limousine to Stork Club, etc. If they want to look as if they were going to a Civil War anniversary party, that may be all right, but for the vast majority, including professionals, white-collarites and other moneygrubbers, these padded hips and four-yards-around-the-base balloon skirts will not fit into tiny apartment kitchens where the coffee and toast are rustled up each morning before the mad dash to the office begins.

HORTENSE C. WORDEMAN New York City

Left Is Right

Sir:

RE FOREIGN NEWS, SEPT. 22 ISSUE, A TIMELY

QUESTION: WHO IS GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION--ATTLEE OR THE HAT?

W. R. CAMPBELL JR.

Kingsville, Ont.

P: Reader Campbell is right: the absent-minded Prime Minister's hat is going left.-- ED.

Sir:

... As an Englishman with strong anti-socialist views, may I suggest that the Prime Minister does not know whether he is coming or going?

P. M. AUSTEN

Montreal

Fish Story

Sir:

. . . Did some Brule River promoter give General Eisenhower a fast shuffle with phony fish scales? If the General himself actually said that scant two-pounder weighed 5 1/2 [TIME, Sept. 15], somebody must have pulled the wool (Cap, Field, Wool, O.D.) over his eyes.

Around effete Eastern streams, trout that size are merely measured, not weighed, and an 18 or 19-incher like the General's, if referred to at all, is called "a nice fish."

KENNETH GODFREY New York City

P: TIME'S National Affairs editor (no fisherman, he) did the shuffling: the General caught a 5 1/2-pounder all right, but the photographer caught him with the "nice fish."--ED.

Tongue-Tangled Sisters

Sir:

Concerning the I.Q.s of the girls contending for the "Miss America" crown, as quizmaster of the radio show on which they appeared, I agree: "There appeared to be little Ph.D. timber among . . . the entrants" [TIME, Sept. 15]. But how many 18-20-year-old American girls would so qualify?

I found the girls I met youthfully eager, bright and alert. There wasn't one I met whom I wouldn't have been proud to have had as a sister, I.Q. and all. It's true that on the show they made the "bulls" you quoted, but not necessarily because they didn't know the answers. That may sound strange, but since I handle over 50 people a week, 52 weeks a year, on quiz-type radio shows. I imagine I'm a qualified apologist for the girls. Most of them were facing a microphone for the first time, all enveloped in the biggest thing in their lives. The girls were simply stricken with that brain-befuddling, tongue-tangling something called "mike fright." . . .

WIN ELLIOT

New York City

Anti-Cancer Credit

Sir:

In a report about the Fourth International Cancer Congress in St. Louis [TIME, Sept. 15], you mention me as "the discoverer of a new anti-cancer vitamin, a special variety of folic acid." .This work with folic acid was done by a group at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City, consisting of Dr. and Mrs. Rudolf Leuchtenberger, Dr. John C. Keresztesy, Dr. Daniel Laszlo and myself. While I presented the report at the Congress, chief credit for this discovery is due to Mrs. Leuchtenberger.

RICHARD LEWISOHN, M.D. New York City

Garnished Emigrants?

Sir:

Re U.S. emigrants to Australia [TIME, Sept. 15]:

If Australia is so hepped up about "splendid American soldiers," why doesn't she get busy and acquire the rest of the makings--i.e., a few Germans, French, Poles, Italians, Scandinavians, etc., mix them in with the Anglo-Saxons she already has, endure the babble of tongues for a few years, and there's no reason to suppose the results wouldn't be the same. Potential immigrants are everywhere in Europe these days. Or does Australia want only the finished product, garrished with a Brooklyn accent, American cigarets and a high-school diploma, and served to her on a silver platter?

JAMES E. GILLASPY

Laredo, Tex.

"Allied Occupation Is Kaput"

Sir:

As a member of the Allied press, I witnessed the Hamburg "disembarkation" of the 4,300 Exodus Jews [TIME, Sept. 15]--so gruesome a show that it seems incredible that the British would make (or the U.S. permit them to make) such a far-reaching political mistake before the Germans. . . .

Morally, for the moment, Allied occupation is kaput. . . . Because of this licensed outrage upon the Jews, it appears that a common denominator has been reached between conqueror and conquered. Our moral difference, always abstract and hard to demonstrate anyway, has now been swept away.

. . . The Nazis are laughing. . . And the average apathetic German in the street . . . is attracted by this human-interest story to rouse himself to scoff successfully at the conquerors. . . .

As co-masters of Bizonia ... we are so closely enmeshed with Britain in Germany that these blunders cannot be absolved as unilateral. Neither partner retains the right to make mistakes of this dimension on our common ground: our Allied reputation in Germany.

American occupation personnel, particularly in civil government, is feeling very low in morale. It is embarrassing, humiliating, and frustrating to have to face up to their German contacts. . . . The Marshall demurral came only as an after-fact. There was no advance reminder from General Clay that the Hamburg docking would be a purely British undertaking; so that even technically the Americans were in no way defended for the record.

The Exodus people must have a happy ending, for our own benefit in Germany, let alone theirs. A United Nations solution, America-backed to the hilt (with plenty of salutary notice in German newspapers), could rescue the American occupation from its present grotesque position in Germany, where so much else is at stake.

MRS. WILL ROGERS JR.

Frankfurt Press Camp American Zone, Germany

Man on a Horse

Sir:

To quote Mr. Grady Edney in your Sept. 22 issue: "Jazz 'purists' remind me of a little group of prim spinsters careening along in Henry's first Ford, warmly assuring themselves that the Lincoln Zephyr gliding by is only a commercial corruption of the Original Thing." . . .

I like Beethoven; what does that make me --the man on the horse? . . .

If I had the power, I would sentence Mr. Edney to two weeks' solitary confinement with nothing but a phonograph machine and the latest albums of Morton Gould and Harry James. . . .

RUSSELL WILSEY

Bellerose, N.Y.

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