The $100 Lick

Sir:

Will you please tell me what the hell is the use for parents and teachers to spend time instructing their children not to lick their fingers, and then to see you print a picture of the President licking his at the $100-a-plate Republican dinner [TIME, Oct. 26]? Surely there must have been a napkin lying around somewhere.

BILL STALNAKER

Houston

Word from Paradise

Sir:

TIME [Oct. 12] mutilated veracity with a little piece of fiction masquerading as fact, entitled "Silenced: a Calm Voice." TIME alleged that the late Governor Dan McCarty "set himself to the job of cleaning up after Governor Fuller Warren." This allegation is not true. There was nothing to clean up ...

The Warren administration inaugurated an industrial development program that caused the tropical paradise called Florida to become a figurative beehive of light manufacturing . . . [It] sponsored a tourist promotion program that brought vast multitudes of new tourists to the lush, lovely, florescent state . . .

The Warren administration put through the "taste test" citrus program which insured the vitamin-hungry citizens of America oranges and grapefruit ripe and redolent with succulent, salubrious, satisfying juice. Governor McCarty continued this program. The Warren administration sponsored legislation outlawing highway cows and hogs [and] slightly reduced the cruel carnage of colliding cars . . . Illegal gambling had been openly operated in Florida for more than 50 years before 1949. The Warren administration suppressed all open, illegal gambling . . . and markedly reduced sneak gambling . . . TIME turned back to the Ananias tradition by alleging that Florida had a "Fuller Warren type of government-by-lobby." This is a vertical variance from veracity . . . Lobbyists did not run the state government while I humbly occupied the curule chair at the state capitol of Florida--the paradisiacal peninsula visited by 5,000,000 pleasure-pursuing sun-seekers . . .

FULLER WARREN Miami Beach, Fla.

P: TIME congratulates Reader Warren on maintaining a high rate of alliteration in and out of office, warns him against the cruel carnage of colliding views on his administration.--ED.

Keeping Up with the Carnegies

Sir:

Please thank you for the beautifully caustic review [Oct. 26] of Dorothy Carnegie's How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead . . . I have the happy fortune to be married to a gentleman and a scholar, a Samuel Taylor Coleridge sort of man, and I hope that he will stay "useless and lovable . . ." Isn't it odd that Mr. Coleridge is still read and admired after over a hundred years? I wonder who's going to remember the backslapping Mr. and Mrs. Dale Carnegie in 2053.

ANN GLENDOWER

Pittsburgh

Sir:

In Xanadu did Carnegie A stately treasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred salesman, ran Through salesrooms measureless to man, Down to a moneyed sea . . .

KEVIN A. LEONARD

New York City

Flabbergasted

Sir:

When Mrs. Roosevelt, at this late date, refers to Alger Hiss's "alleged" treasonable act (TIME, Oct. 26), I am flabbergasted. If any one thing is responsible for McCarthyism, it is such muddled emotional thinking by people who should know better.

JOSEPH H. COURTNEY Morgantown, W. Va.

Sir:

Mrs. Roosevelt's prose has the unique faculty of leaving the mind stumbling about in a forest of wavering, autumn-tinted meanings ... So the discovery of Hiss's "alleged" treason was less damaging to U.S. prestige than Senator McCarthy's investigations? . . . Or does the word "alleged" indicate that Mrs. Roosevelt does not believe that Hiss was a traitor? . . . Meanwhile, she remains unchallenged mistress of the dangling sequitur . . .

ALEX. M. ADAMS Mexico City

Canterbury & Rome

Sir:

For nearly 400 years Anglican polemics have usually backfired. The latest outburst of the Archbishop of Canterbury [TIME, Oct. 26] is likely to continue the trend. His Grace entirely overlooked the fact that the two most Catholic nations of Western Europe, Ireland and Spain, have the fewest Communists. As for Roman Catholic "proselytizing in hospitals" about which he complains, I can only speak from . . . bitter experience. I was one of the few laymen in the U.S. ever to found a successful Episcopal (Anglican) mission . . . Two years ago when I was desperately ill ... it was Roman Catholic clergy who ministered unto me.

PAUL BRINDEL Novato, Calif.

Sir:

How stupid can Geoffrey Fisher and the Anglican clergy get? The absurdity of lumping together doctrinal differences and malicious lies is so repellent . . . The result will be the return of more wanderers to the mother church. Well--I offered up the Divine Office yesterday for the poor fellows.

STEPHEN R. FOGARTY, O.S.A. Tulsa

Sir:

The Archbishop of Canterbury . . . need not be frightened by the doctrine of infallibility in matters of faith, although Sir Thomas More went to the Tower and the block in its 'defense. The primate is a better Christian than his lineage and many of us Catholics. We pray that his reward will be that of Newman and Chesterton. The door they opened was discovered through intellect, grace and prayer . . .

ALFRED FARRELL New Orleans

Sir:

I wish to congratulate you on the courage you have shown in printing this article ... I hope it will . . . stop the spiritual bullying of the great bureaucratic system of the Roman Catholic organization ... In this Protestant country of ours, we should grant the same privileges to the R.C. Church as it grants to Protestants in Catholic countries . . .

H. WOODHEAD Detroit

Sir:

The authors of Infallible Fallacies were shrewd enough to hide in anonymity. The Archbishop of Canterbury, not so shrewd, has publicly praised their ill-informed and ill-tempered attack on Catholicism; but this sort of indiscretion is not surprising from a man who three years ago praised Red China and attacked the Catholic Church in the same speech.

It is amusing to find Anglicans so disturbed by the "doctrinal errors" of the Roman Catholic Church, when Anglicanism tolerates in its fold every form of belief and disbelief from Papalism to Marxism, not only among lay folk but even among prominent clergymen . . . Perhaps Canterbury feels he would have no more success than when . . . he explained away his inability to displace the notorious "Red Dean" of his own Cathedral Church . . .

PHILIP NICOLAIDES New York City

Sir:

As a Roman Catholic woman who has been denied an annulment and who would very much like to remarry and have a family, may I suggest to the Roman Catholic women of England who are in the same situation to march to the house of the Archbishop of Canterbury and demand that he prove that our church does grant annulments to "those it particularly desires to please?" We all may then perhaps remarry, and those childless ones like myself may probably arrange to be "pleased" too . .

JACQUELINE DUBECQ Paris

France's Fat Girl

Sir:

Re Renoir's Venus Victorieuse: 40 million Frenchmen have read, with relief, that the monstrosity pictured in TIME, Oct. 12, is now safely in the good city of Portland, Ore. We, the people of France, do not object to gay, young "bronze creatures" romping around our lawns, as long as they are graceful and lithe of limb. But the heavy, rotund and adipose lady was a clear case for a severe reducing diet and Turkish baths . . .

As to the very gallant and charitable Mr. Victor M. Carter, successful bidder for the Venus, we note with pleasure that he is in the hardware business, which still leaves him an out should he ... take a second look at "the thing."

R. RAY Paris

The Doctor's Report

Sir:

In the Oct. 19 Medicine section, the first item under "Capsules" refers to a paper I recently presented in Washington before the 24th Scientific Assembly ... I am very apprehensive that an erroneous and perhaps harmful impression will be left with your readers ... I was referring only to attacks of "coronary thrombosis or occlusion" and not to other episodes of coronary disease. Other types of attacks of coronary disease can be brought about by unusual exertion and even moderate effort . . .

ARTHUR M. MASTER, M.D. Mount Sinai Hospital New York City

Aftermath of a Massacre

Sir:

Your "Massacre of Kibya" [Oct. 26] made me boil with indignation at the crime--and at you! Were not the facts tragic enough? Why the inflammatory embellishment? . . . The blood bath at Kibya cannot be justified on any grounds; yet the burden of guilt must be shared by the Arab nations whose refusal to meet Israel at the conference table is keeping the wounds of war open in the troubled Near East.

JOSHUA O. HABERMAN Trenton, N.J.

Sir:

My flesh crawls at the unmitigated gall of your article . . .

MARTIN BOOKSPAN Mattapan, Mass.

Sir:

As a Palestinian evicted from my own home and birthplace by Jewish terrorism, I congratulate TIME . . .

Terrorism was a policy of the Zionists even before the creation of Israel . . .

JULES KAGIAN New York City

Sir:

Your candid story of the massacre at Kibya may finally help in telling a misinformed American public the truth about the nation that so effectively sold itself in the U.S. as the "most democratic and peace-loving" nation in the Middle East . . .

RAMSEY H. MADANY Potsdam, N.Y.

Man of the Year

Sir:

I nominate Senator Joseph R. McCarthy . . . Only the most squeamish would quarrel with his tactics . . .

BERNARD K. FRANK Portland, Ore.

Sir:

... I name Konrad Adenauer . . .

ARTHUR BAUERMANN Engelsberg, Germany

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