Prayers & Polls
Sir:
Nothing has aroused me quite as much as Eamon McDonough's letter in TIME, Aug. 18, to the effect that with a choice between "Uriah Heep" Stevenson and "Tin Soldier" Ike, he will stay away from the polls on election day and pray for the future of the country . . . Mr. McDonough should go to church, as he suggests, and pray for himself or else go behind the Iron Curtain where he could have only one choice . . .
LAWRENCE T. LEWIS
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sir:
Eamon McDonough would be doing more for the future of the country if he were to go to both the church pew and the election booth on election day.
WARREN T. MCCREADY
Chicago
How Are Things In Secaucus?
Sir:
As I was reading the Aug. 11 issue of TIME, I came across an insane article entitled "Moonbeam McSwine's Fate" which [was] about my home town, Secaucus, N.J., of which I and many others are very proud . . . Our town has had nothing to be disgraced about compared to the disgrace you have wrought on us . . .
The residential section of Secaucus is not bedraggled and certainly isn't huddled on a hill . . . the town of Secaucus is spread out with the pigs occupying only one section, not all around us as you claim. I wonder if you know why our meadows are "trash-filled"? The sole reason is that our neighboring towns dump all their refuse there instead of disposing it in some other way.
It's just too bad that our poor neighbors and those traveling through our town can't stand the smell, but if we didn't raise our 75,000 pigs, the prices of pork, etc., would increase and the people would complain again. Wouldn't they? . . .
RALPH BLOCK
Secaucus, N.J.
Knocking Is No Bother
Sir:
It appears that the Hollywood producers have really slipped in offering the public (including teenagers) such a degenerate movie as Don't Bother to Knock [TIME, Aug 11]. Even from the producer's point of view, the movie can have a bad effect--it may make patrons think twice before hiring a babysitter while they go to the movies . . .
MRS. WILLIAM TOUTANT
Annapolis, Md.
Sir:
Marilyn Monroe's purr "I had the radio on" when she posed for her now historic nude calendar picture was after a historic precedent. When Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese and sister of Napoleon, was chided for having posed in the nude for Canova's famous statue of her as Venus Victrix, she calmly stated: "I wasn't cold with a fire in the room."
E. L. McCOLGIN Detroit
Gaul & Wormwood
Sir:
Thank you for the Aug. 11 article on Father Bruckberger's book, One Sky to Share. If the book lives up to the excerpts you quoted, then Father Bruckberger has just established himself as the non-American who most understands America.
Was it coincidence which brought you to publish, in the same issue, two separate articles reflecting such vastly divided French concepts of America? Seldom have I been more infuriated by a report of a foreign attitude toward our country than I was by the French expectancy of unlimited financial support from us--and seldom more soothed than by Father Bruckberger's evaluation of our being and spirit. This odd little balancing effect within the covers of one magazine gave it (the magazine) almost the quality of a work of art. So did it razzle and subsequently spread balm on the emotions.
HAZEL E. HESTER
Stillwater, Okla.
Old-Fashioned Girl
Sir:
In the Aug. 18 issue, you devote some words and a glamorous picture of 17-year-old Pansco Hazel Excellent, the world's leading bovine milk producer, and imply that in her thrice-daily milkings, she has succumbed to the machine age. Hazel is not entrusted to the mechanical monsters of the dairy. For the past 13 years (less vacations), Jean Berguery of Pellissier Dairies has devoted himself to the chore of extracting almost nine gallons a day from Hazel's ample productive area . . .
ABNER M. FRITZ
Whittier, Calif.
How to Root (Russian Style)
Sir:
Re the final Olympic basketball game between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: I happened to sit behind the Red China delegation . . . They were applauding both teams, when just before halftime a comrade with an Olympic uniform (I believe from Bulgaria) came over and set them straight. From then on, the applause went strictly to the Russians.
ERIC TELTSCHER
London, England
X Marks the Spot
Sir:
Re your May 26 "News in Pictures" spread: a little late, l take the liberty of calling to your attention that the picture captioned "Arctic Cache" does not show "supplies left by Peary's 1909 North Pole expedition" but shows the remnants of a depot placed ten years later by the Danish explorer (my father-in-law), the late Admiral Godfred Hansen. The depot was placed in 1919. . . approximately 700 feet north of Peary's old post . . . and was laid out by the third Thule expedition as fourrage for Roald Amundsen in case he should succeed in flying over the North Pole from his expedition . . . along the Asiatic coast in 1918-1920 . . .
I enclose a reproduction of Hansen's photo of his depot. The mountain seen in the background of his picture is the summit of the Cooper Key Mountain . . .
JORGEN AABYE
Copenhagen, Denmark
Facts of Life in Woodstock, III.
Sir:
Your Milestones editor must feel very dismal. One gets a picture from his column that of every 40 important happenings, 25 are deaths, eight are marriages, six are divorces, one is a birth. Luckily for my morale, I live in a neighborhood where only occasionally someone dies. We marry happily. Children are born quite frequently . . . I suspect that famous people follow a similar pattern of living . . .
IRENE HOFELD
Woodstock, Ill.
P: TIME congratulates Reader Hofeld, joins her in deploring the fact that so few members of the human race are newsworthy at birth.--ED.
Success Note
Sir:
The successful venture of Spyros Skouras [TIME, Aug. 11 ] and his associates into the movie-theater world should prove conclusively that when Greek meets Greek, they do not necessarily open a restaurant.
MARY LOUKIDES
Plainfield, NJ.
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