Horse of Distinction Sir: Re TIME, May 31: It was very refreshing to see a thing of beauty on your cover after a long succession of gimlet-eyed politicians, visionary healers, obtuse-browed soldiers, coelacanthine millionaires, foreign tyrants and dyspeptic men of utmost distinction . . .

Toledo ALAN KERR Sir: Not since the white horse came for Joe Palmer-- have I seen such a story as yours ... I voice here the approving sentiments pf several members of this club . . .

CAMPBELL H. BROWN

President

Thoroughbred Club of Tennessee Nashville

SIR:

I WANT TO COMMEND YOU ON THE OBJECTIVE COVER STORY ON NATIVE DANCER. IT IS RARE THAT THOROUGHBRED RACING IS FAVORED WITH SUCH ACCURATE COVERAGE.

J. SAMUEL PERLMAN

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER THE MORNING TELEGRAPH DAILY RACING FORM NEW YORK CITY

Sir:

. . . Over here, the Dancer's reputation had preceded him, and he was no stranger . . . There is an old saying here that "Everyone is equal both on and under the turf" (meaning that everyone is equal at the races

-- The New York Herald Tribune's late rac-ig expert (TIME, Nov. 10, 1952).

Letters to the Editor should be addressed to TIME & LIFE Building, 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y. and in the grave) ; it is probably this equality, together with the thrills and uncertainties of the sport itself, that makes it the most universal sport of all ...

FINBARR M. SLATTERY Asdee, County Kerry, Ireland

SIR:

YOUR COVER JINX HAS ALWAYS BEEN EFFECTIVE BUT NEVER QUITE SO PROMPT AS IN THE CASE OF NATIVE DANCER. BY THE WAY, IN DANCER'S PEDIGREE YOU HAVE HIS PATERNAL GRAND DAM WRONG; THE DAM OF UNBREAKABLE IS IMPORTED BLUE GLASS, NOT BLUE

GRASS.

THE EDITORS THE THOROUGHBRED RECORD LEXINGTON, KY.

Sir:

You state: "He (Native Dancer) has already matched the record of the great Man o' War--21 races, 20 victories--and he has more races to run." Native Dancer is now running as a four-year-old. Man o' War won all his races as a two-and three-year-old. The number is correct, but it has taken Native Dancer longer.

M. MILLER Lexington, Ky.

Sir:

Re your equestrian cover: May I be one of the thousands who will ask how many times animals have graced the cover of TIME?

(CPL.) RICHARD S. COLE

U.S. Army Fort Knox, Ky. This Other Eden

Sir:

TIME'S Andre Laguerre's analysis of Britain's current foreign policy [May 31] seems more like what America would like to believe than a true explanation of the facts motivating Britain's stand. To say that Churchill is "old and feeble," his states of mind are "fitful," and that he borders on ineffectiveness, is poppycock . . . Laguerre's statement, "It was the Tories, not the Socialists, who advocated appeasement of Hitler," is a wonder. Does he mean the Socialists were for vigorous action at the time? Then, as now, the Socialists opposed rearmament and were, if anything, more of a peace party than the Tories ... He ascribes [British] foreign policy to Churchill's senility, Eden's obsessive desire for the prime ministership, and the appeasement elements of the Tory Party. The truth is that British foreign policy is as it is for the same reason American foreign policy was isolationist in 1939: the vast preponderance of the people want it that way . . .

W. J. REED Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

Sir: Your article on Anthony Eden, like Punch's cartoon, is grotesquely unfair . . .

Are you really advocating a third world war as the only way out of our present difficulties --and if not, what other way do you suggest except Eden's?

CYRIL OSBORNE, M.P. House of Commons London

Sir:

... I hope Sir Winston Churchill calls your London Bureau chief in and gives him a piece of his "old and feeble" mind . . .

N. J. RAINBOW Toronto

Pure Slurvian

Sir: TIME, May 24, reports that the BBC is concerned with the enunciation of some of its announcers. They needn't be. Our own Toast of the Town, Ed Sullivan, has used nothing but pure Slurvian for years. As our leading exponent of Slurvian, Sullivan surpasses anything ever dreamed of by the BBC.

To wit: MERKRIES and LINKS--two cars advertised on his program.

AWYENCE--the people who attend his show.

LAZENJELM--complimentary greeting to the awyence.

YERP--the continent east of us.

NITESTAYS OF MERKA--our country.

J. K. SHALLENBERGER Long Beach, Calif.

On a South African Farm

Sir: ... Re "The Flogging of a Kaffir" [TIME, June 7]: Had your correspondent used a fraction of the diligence he showed in tracking down and recording an anonymous "Boer farmer's" comments on the case, he could not have failed to mention in passing the countless numbers of South Africans--both "Boer farmers" and others--in whom the crime aroused the same shocked views as those held by the trial judge.

CONRAD NORTON Assistant Director Union of South Africa Government Information Office New York City

To Tell the (Ugh!) Truth

Sir:

After watching, listening to and reading about the McCarthy-Stevens hearings, I have come to the conclusion that the only way we will ever get at the truth is to place one of Li'l Abner's "Bald Iggles" in a conspicuous place, where each witness must stare into those "sad, reproachful eyes that pierce souls."

MARY GARDEN Elmira, N.Y.

--I For Al Capp's version of the Slobbo-vian lie detector, see cut.--ED.

Physicist in the Garden Sir:

Professor Marcus Oliphant may be recognized as one of the top authorities on atomic physics, but every informed Christian will object to his view of The Fall of Man. Further, his observation that the morality of man has not improved over 5,000 years of recorded history [TIME, May 31] is good evidence that the natural "Ascent of Man" is a myth . . .

ROBERT H. REMMEY III Tucson, Ariz.

Sir:

Atomic Physicist Oliphant, the new expert in faith and morals, has not even succeeded in siding with the Serpent. If he had bothered to study the story of the Garden of Eden ... he would have discovered that his "tree of knowledge" is strangely missing. In its place he would have found a "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," quite a different species . . .

As a former physicist now turned clergyman, I can't see that Professor Oliphant knows a speck more about theology than most clergy know about physics.

(The Rev.) DON H. GROSS

St. Peter's Episcopal Church Brentwood, Pa.

An Ocean Apart

Sir:

In the Art section of TIME'S May 17 issue, you say that in the past six months the Museum of Modern Art has bought three paintings by Lithuanian Artist Vytautas Kasiulis. This is inaccurate, as we do not own any works of art by this artist.

ELIZABETH SHAW Publicity Director Museum of Modern Art New York City This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.