Correction

SIR:

IN THE STORY ON SALESMAN FRED WARD OF DENVER IN THE JAN. 21 ISSUE, TIME ERRED IN SAYING THAT THE J. K. MULLEN INVESTMENT co. TUMBLED INTO RECEIVERSHIP." IT WAS

THE MULLEN CO. WHICH FILED THE BANKRUPTCY PETITION AGAINST FRED WARD. THE MULLEN CO. DID NOT GO INTO RECEIVERSHIP AND IS COMPLETELY SOUND.

FRANCIS RONALDS

TIME, INC. DENVER

Man of the Year

Sir:

In choosing your Man of the Year, Mohammed Mossadegh, the Premier of Iran, you have stirred up a lot of trouble for yourself, and as a subscriber I am disgusted and thought you had better sense. This radical and troublemaker has caused more harm in 1951 than any other known person--to himself, his country, and the peace of the world . . .

HUGH M. SCOTT

Montreal, Canada

Sir:

. . . Even Franchot Tone would have been a happier selection.

FREDERICK W. PEDERSON La Crosse, Wis.

Sir:

Congratulations . . . Certainly no other individual better symbolizes the conflict between East and West than does Mossadegh, and no other man poses such a frightening moral challenge to the Western world . . . ALAN W. SPEARMAN JR. Birmingham, Ala.

Sir:

You have insulted your readers. Who among you was the Mad Hatter who was responsible for this tricky treachery! Or has the choosing of the Man of the Year become a frivolous, foolish, fantastic game indulged in by your irresponsibles? . . .

GORDON FERRIE HULL Hanover, N.H.

P:TIME'S Man of the Year is neither the winner of a popularity contest nor necessarily a great or good man, but one who has "done the most to change the news for better or for worse." As TIME'S story said, this man in 1951, "sad to relate," was Premier Mossadegh.--ED.

Not in Bitterness . ..

Sir:

On Sunday, Dec. 30, a pilot of an Air Force transport gambled 28 lives, including his own and the lives of 19 West Point cadets, against a few hours of flying time, and lost when his C-47 crashed in the mountains northeast of Phoenix, Ariz. Within 24 hours the weather had cleared . . . This was only one of a long succession of Air Force crashes attributed, at least by newspaper reports, to flying in bad weather . .

My son, William F. Sharp, was one of the cadets killed in that Sunday crash, and there is a question that I am entitled to ask the Air Force--not in bitterness, but in the hope that an honest answer may prevent a continuation of this utterly pointless loss of lives . . . The question is: At the present time, within the continental limits of the U.S., in the absence of any national emergency, can there be any reason that can justify the flight of Air Force transports under weather conditions that threaten disaster to their passengers, when a few hours' delay in flying time would provide safety?

Can it be that because Government planes and servicemen are expendable, the Air Force has drifted into a practice which counts the uninterrupted accomplishment of domestic, often unimportant flying 'missions as more important than the lives of men who fly in planes? . . .

ROBERT SHARP

Colonel, U.S.A. (ret.) Los Altos, Calif.

Mr. Pauley's Statement

Sir:

Re your statement which appeared in the Dec. 24 issue: "[Charles Oliphant] had flown to the Kentucky Derby in the plane of Edwin Pauley, the California oilman, who also was the defendant in a tax case."

This is to advise you that I am not a defendant in a tax case, criminal or civil, and I have never had a tax case before any court, criminal or civil. My tax problems have been confined to those that would confront the ordinary businessman of equal financial circumstances, and I have not asked Mr.

Oliphant or any other person in the Internal Revenue Department for any favors at any time . . .

EDWIN W. PAULEY

Los Angeles

P:TIME erred in using the word "defendant." Chief Counsel Oliphant's testimony before the congressional investigating committee was: "Mr. Pauley now has before the bureau a case involving $13,000."--ED.

Bigotry in Bogota?

Sir:

I wish to commend you ... for your courage and honesty in printing the report of atrocities perpetrated upon American missionaries and evangelical believers in Colombia [TIME, Jan. 7] . . . We see so much of propaganda news to build up favorable sentiment to the Roman hierarchy, but what is going on in Italy, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico ... is carefully kept out of U.S. newspapers . . .

V T VITA

Cicero, Ill.

Sir:

Protestants seem to feel they are the mother of freedom of interpretation of religion, and are doing an enormous job in delivering worthless brats. Chief offenders are the Baptists and Methodists, who insist on being "martyred" in Catholic countries while they practice anti-Catholicism daily in our "democratic" South . . . These pesty Baptists and friends will force their way to Colombia, Mexico, and even on the Pope's front lawn with the effrontery of troublemakers rather than the bearers of the Word of Peace. Is bigotry a one-way affair?

M. T. SMITH

Westbury, N.Y.

The Ploy's the Thing

Sir:

Your Dec. 17 account of the non-playing captainship of Mr. Frank Shields during the recent lawn tennis matches in Australia gave me much pleasure. I have long been accustomed to expect the more brilliant gambits from the younger people, and the junior nations.

In retirement, my function now is to keep Gamesmanship from wandering from its basic principles, and may I therefore remind your Sport Editor that the suggestion that "the final score is the proof of the gambit" is a deviation from the Gamesmanship line?

It is the final state of one-upness which counts; and Losemanship shows how this can be achieved . . . Savitt was beaten by Sedg-man. Mr. Shields should have drawn attention to the inexplicable speed of this phenomenon (58 minutes) . . . Surely the only explanation of the collapse of the one living exponent of the Tilden backhand must have been due (Shields should have said) to the "unfortunate atmosphere" and the "definite tension." These of course were fostered by the typical non-playing criticism, from the stands, of non-playing Captain Shields, who complained of the non-giving of a footfault against Seixas . . . To make sure that the point was rammed home, Savitt could have made a special statement to the press that he had been "fairly and squarely beaten." STEPHEN POTTER London, England

P:To Author Potter, discoverer of Gamesmanship, * TIME'S thanks for his authoritative analysis of Davis Cup-manship.--ED.

* The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, or The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating--TIME, Sept. 6, 1948.

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