Man of the Year?

Sir: Praise the Lord; you have lately "passed up" the ammunition twice in praise of poets --Robert Frost and Christopher Fry. Why not name one as Man of the Year ? FRED K. BREWSTER St. Louis

Sir: George Bernard Shaw . . . W. G. PRIEST Putney, London, England

Sir: . . . Taft--nominations closed by voters November 7, 1950. WALTER H. WILLIAMS Rockford, Ill.

Sir: . . . General Douglas MacArthur. ARA M. BABIKIAN Beirut, Lebanon

Sir: That ardent disciple of nonpartisanship, who has made it work for the second most populous state in the Union . . . Governor Earl Warren of California . . . J. L. ROSENBERG Sacramento, Calif.

"I Was One of the Twenty"

Sir: "Helicopters . . . brought out 20 of the most seriously wounded" [from the North Korean town of Unsan--TIME, Nov. 13]. I was one of the twenty. From the moment I regained my senses after being wounded (for the second time in Korea) until I read your article, slowly and painstakingly with the one eye I now have left, I prayed for news of my outfit . . . I was one of an advance patrol which advanced past Yong-Sung-Dong to draw the first fire from the Chinese. My thanks to TIME for courageously and truthfully telling our story . . . GEORGE A. HAVEN Tokyo Army Hospital Tokyo, Japan

Post (Election] Script

Sir: The best post-election crack we've heard, out here, came from a onetime Democrat who said: "Well, us Democrats took a hell of a beating, didn't we--thank God!" CHET SCHWARZKOPF Eureka, Calif.

Luscious Strings (Cont'd)

SIR: RE YOUR NOV. 27 LETTER FROM READER LEWIS WILLIAMS CONCERNING YOUR NOV. 6 REVIEW OF BEECHAM'S RENDITION MOZART: YOUR MUSIC CRITIC'S DEFINITIONS OF DIFFERENCE IN PLAYING BRITISH, FRENCH AND U.S. ORCHESTRAS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. HAVING CONDUCTED MAJOR EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS, I SHOULD KNOW. YOU CAN SAVE THE SOUNDPROOFING OF THAT WEST-NORTHWEST OFFICE. DANIELE AMFITHEATROF BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.

Fryed

Sir: . . . Your Nov. 20 review of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning . . . was the most vigorous, compelling and superbly interesting review I've ever read ... KATHRYN ALBERTSON Westminster, Md.

Sir: TIME'S Christopher Fry cover story is extravagant and outrageous. The praise that is heaped upon the exuberance of the Fry metaphor is all out of proportion to the dubious merit of the tawdry and self-conscious Shakespearianism of The Lady's Not for Burning . . . ALAN R. TRUSTMAN Cambridge, Mass.

Sir: . . . May I add . . . that if "The Lady's Not for Burning," she's indeed "For Frying" in Mr. Fry's "Spry" and palatable concoction of poetic wit. SIDNEY KOEKIN Kansas City, Mo.

Starred

Sir: In your Nov. 20 issue, I feel that you have reached a new high in interesting and informative articles for one issue. The cover story on Christopher Fry enticed while the Science article on the universe, "According to Hoyle," stimulated and excited the imagination . . . Never before have the complicated and profound theories of the universe been explained in such simple, understandable English . . . Your Science writer has hit the jackpot--something like a supernova. I only hope he doesn't cool down again. JEANNE AITCHISON Chicago

E for Effort

Sir: Re your article, "Chaos, Damn It!" [TIME, Nov. 20] . . . Every other country represented at the international art exhibit in Venice had a pleasing group of material. The U.S. had a skimpy showing, most of which was by this man Jackson Pollock . . . My European friends, who saw the exposition, had the impression that this is the type of work that finds popular approval in the U.S IRENE KATZ Brooklyn, N.Y.

Sir: Thanks for printing Italian Critic Alfieri's comments on Jackson Pollock. If Alfred Barr's selections didn't convince most Europeans who saw the U.S. exhibit that artistic quality and taste were at a low ebb in the U.S., then, at least, he deserves an E for effort . . . CHARLES O'REILLY Notre Dame, Ind.

SIR: NO CHAOS DAMN IT. DAMNED BUSY PAINTING AS YOU CAN SEE BY MY SHOW COMING UP NOV. 28. I'VE NEVER BEEN TO EUROPE. THINK YOU LEFT OUT MOST EXCITING PART OF MR. ALFIERI'S PIECE. JACKSON POLLOCK EAST HAMPTON, N.Y.

P: The most exciting part of Critic Alfieri's remarks, at least for Artist Pollock, may well have been the obvious conclusion that he "sits at the extreme apex of the most advanced and, unprejudiced avant-garde of modern art."--ED.

Man or Dog?

Sir: Though by no means a rabid TIME fan, I feel that TIME deserves an orchid for the Nov. 20 article, "Man or Dog?". To deny the medical profession the use of experimental animals (which, as the article pointed out, were doomed to be gassed anyway) is to deny man (and the animals he takes to a veterinarian) any hope of very great medical [advances] . . . CHARLES HOLEMAN JR. Seattle

Sir: . . . The article really startled me. I didn't realize what a large proportion of the population of this country is feebleminded. To think that there are 38,445 people in the city of Baltimore alone who put dogs ahead of people! . . . MRS. GORDON R. CONDIT Crossett, Ark.

Sir: Thank you so much for your article, "Man or Dog?". I am one of those monsters who would sacrifice his dog in place of his child. HENRY W. BECK Gray, Me.

Sir: Just a pat on the back for your fine article on the successful contest with the anti-vivisectionists! Years ago, when I was connected with the Hooper Foundation of California, my colleagues and I had to waste many hours out of every year fighting these half crazy people . . . What cheers me particularly is that the anti-vivisectionists got licked in Los Angeles. If we can lick them there, we can lick them anywhere! I've spent 17 years of my life in laboratories, and at no time have I seen any cruelty to animals carried out there . . . WALTER ALVAREZ Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minn.

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