Bicuspids & Bifocals

Sir:

Supporters of the plan for socialized medicine and dentistry should take a good look at the teeth of Russia's Vishinsky, as seen in the Nov. 19 issue.

The government does seem to have wangled bifocals for him--probably so he can read the fine print in his Moscow orders.

MRS. C. W. KIETZMAN

Milford, Ohio

Familiar Cry

Sir:

As a follow-up to your exhaustive and definitive Nov. 5 study of "The Younger Generation," may I suggest you undertake a like survey of "Marriage in the U.S."?

The writer, for one, is endlessly baffled and fascinated at the never-ending plunge of the American male, lemming-like, into the sea of matrimony, to sink beneath the waves of department-and specialty-shop bills ... to say nothing of the storms of abuse, vilification, contempt and scorn from his wife and daughters . . . Nobody but a hopeless fool would sacrifice his freedom for such a horrible reward . . .

The American husband can expect to be looked on as nothing more than a branch of the Chase National Bank . . . Other than this, he is considered totally useless--a big boob, to be pushed around unmercifully . . . And yet . . . the men go right ahead and put their head in a noose . . . Why, I ask, WHY?

GILBERT K. SMITH

New York City

Princeton's Kaz

Sir:

The selection of Princeton's Kazmaier for the Nov. 19 cover, and the article on Princeton football, was a refreshing bit of sunshine on the cloudy sports picture. Well done! R. E. STURHAHN (Princeton '22) Webster Groves, Mo.

Sir:

Congratulations ... A shining example of intercollegiate athletics at their best . . . WILLARD S. DANSER

(Princeton '13) Trenton, N.J.

Sir:

How about the picture you showed of Dick Kazmaier's dad; am I wrong when I say that he is a ringer for "Red" Grange?

JOHN S. O'BRIEN North Andover, Mass.

P: See cuts.--ED.

Sir:

. . . Having been fortunate enough to work with both Dick Kazmaier and Charlie Caldvvell I am gratified to read such a realistic account. Their attitude toward football and athletics in general is refreshing amid the great overcommercialization of college football.

(LIEUT.) GEORGE A. CHANDLER 1950 Princeton football captain Fort Sill, Okla.

Sir:

On any Saturday afternoon of any year, Richard Kazmaier of Princeton would not gain five yards against a Notre Dame team.

TOM REISER Tallahassee, Fla.

P: Why not? Navy, which lost to both Notre Dame and Princeton, managed to gain 128 yards and make ten first downs against the Irish.--ED.

Beware, Says Country Cousin

Sir:

"Oddly enough, say the psychologists, more rural children than urban are afraid of animals" [TIME, Nov. 19].

It isn't odd at all. Most rural children know the male animal is dangerous and that under certain circumstances the female can be deadly, too. When our city cousins come to call, we cross our fingers and hope they'll survive.

RUTH ADAMS

Porterville, Calif.

Senescent Gynophobes

Sir:

In your Nov. 19 review of the Short Novels of Colette, you speak of the eminent writer as being "now a distinguished member of the French Academy." Since when has that body of so-called immortals, senescent gynophobes, honored Madame Colette? I know that she is the president of the lesser Academie Goncourt, and followed the Comtesse de Noailles as a member of the Belgian Academie Royal de Langue et de Litterature Franc,aise. But her membership in the Academic Franc,aise is news to me, as indeed it must be to that body itself.

ALLAN Ross MACDOUGALL

New York City

P: TIME regrets having elected Author

Colette to one academy too many.--ED.

Man of the Year?

Sir:

May I nominate Dwight D. Eisenhower as Man of the Year? On his shoulders rests the hope of the civilized world.

GEORGE D. LEWIS Manchester, Conn.

Sir:

My vote is a toss-up between John Foster Dulles and his Japanese Peace Treaty, or Mr. Acheson for his handling of the [San Francisco] conference. If the Republican Party would stop looking for a politician and try a statesman for a change, either of these might do also.

(REV.) M. A. CAYLEY Rochester, N.Y.

Sir:

I would like to nominate General Douglas MacArthur. He has served his country well.

ALF WARKENTIN Steinbach, Manitoba Canada

Sir:

The Man of 1951? That honor must be shared by Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois . . . and General Dwight D. Eisenhower . . .

ROBERT E. THOMPSON Indianapolis

Sir:

. . . General Mark W. Clark . . .

EBERHARD P. DEUTSCH

New Orleans

Sir:

A great governor who has done so much to make California a great state, and who would make even a greater President: Earl Warren.

H. A. BERLINER Long Beach, Calif.

Sir:

. . . John Foster Dulles . . .

LEWIS H. LANCASTER JR. Kingsport, Tenn.

McEvoy Marriage

Sir:

Your Nov. 19 story of the tragic death of my friends Freddy and Claude McEvoy is not correct in all its details. They were married in the garden of the Windsor Hotel in Nassau. I performed the ceremony, and the best man was John Perona of El Morocco, with Mrs. Duncan McMartin as matron of honor.

(REV.) WILL ARMSTRONG The Methodist Church Ancon, Canal Zone

Hypocritical?

Sir:

Many Indian dignitaries have criticized the lack of understanding many Americans show toward India and Indian problems. How about the other way around? In "Old-Shoe Diplomacy" [TIME, Nov. 19], doesn't it seem a bit hypocritical for the Indian to ask Ambassador Chester Bowles about lynchings in the U.S. . . . when the millions of untouchables present quite a problem of human relations in India?

It is my understanding that the untouchables are in a more desperate position than the American Negro.

(Pvt.) JOHN L. SAUER JR.

Fort Jackson, S.C.

A Member of the Company

Sir:

TIME [Nov. 26] erred in its inclusion of me among the members of the Playwrights' TV Theater, an organization which has no relation to the Playwrights' Company (for the production of stage plays) of which I am a member. However, I beg to applaud Elmer Rice's action in resigning and his admirable statement, which you quoted, of his reasons therefor.

ROBERT E. SHERWOOD New York City

Monstrous Mistake (Cont'd)

Sir:

I was rather intrigued, to say the least, by Mr. Ole Clausen's Nov. 5 letter concerning the supposed incapability of the American people for self-government. Most of the men here who have read the letter feel that either our Danish friend was indulging in a bit of sarcastic humor, or he's one of the most biased and unenlightened demagogues this side of the Iron Curtain . . .

Perhaps Denmark would like to apply for admission as a protectorate of Britain. I doubt it. My advice would be for both of them to renounce their outdated monarchies and apply for admission as a protectorate of Canada . . .

J. H. STRANDQUIST Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Sir:

I agree with your reader, Ole G. Clausen of Copenhagen. I believe the 1776 war was the greatest mistake in modern history. The cause of the war could have been settled by a dozen men around a conference table when disagreement first appeared . . .

A. L. SMITH Montreal, Canada

"To Speak Truth of Caesar"

Sir:

I am pleased that you reported Professor Highet's remarks in the Nov. 12 issue . . . Mr. Highet regards Caesar as "a crook and a traitor" because he believes in political liberty and dreads the appearance in this country of a man of Caesar's intelligence and ambition. Dante regarded Caesar as the savior of the temporal world and the human counterpart of the divine Christ, because Dante believed in a world state, abhorred the misery caused by international wars, and had himself experienced the brutal anarchy of the Italian democracies.

Some of Mr. Highet's contemporaries, a little more pessimistic than I, regard Caesar as the noblest of patriots because they see in the Roman republic of Caesar's day and in the American republic of today a hopeless corruption. Disgusted with the ignorant and brutal clowns who are today performing in all parts of the world, they hope that it will be our good fortune to have at last a master as intelligent, as cultivated and as clement as Caesar . . . The real Caesar was known only to Caesar, but it is the mark of the very greatest men that they reflect the endless perplexities and the eternal problems of mankind.

R. P. OLIVER

Urbana Ill.

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