Man of the Year

Sir:

... I hope I am neither the first nor the last to nominate Dr. Jonas Salk for your Man of the Year. . .

ORRIN RILEY Nixon, N.J.

The Colonel

Sir:

Congratulations on your obituary of Colonel McCormick [April 11]. While I, a onetime Chicago resident, frequently disagreed with the colonel, I admired him with no tongue-in-the-cheek attitude. He was a great individualist; even his enemies admit that his breed of rapidly vanishing Americans is sorely needed in the rapidly spreading regimentation of citizens in these United States, once dedicated to the rights of the individual . . .

ALBERT F. COOK Oak Park, Mich.

Sir:

. . . Because the trend of present-day journalism is to be conventional, the colonel was considered eccentric . . . Despite his many hatchet jobs, he aroused thought on many public issues and dramatized them to try to stimulate public interest. Wish there were more men like him.

DONALD F. FIELD Cincinnati

Pacific Airlift

Pacific Airlift Sir:

I note with interest one of the "horrible" examples of waste cited by the Hoover Commission in their surveys of transportation expenditures of the Federal Government [April 11]. The air shipments of dog food to Okinawa were to myself. As air police officer of the 546th Ammunition Supply Squadron at Naha air base, I made use of 15 German police dogs that performed guard or sentry duty. These dogs were a major factor in reducing pilferage on the depot. The shipments of dog food arrived at intervals of two to three months and were intended to cover our needs for a like period. These dogs paid for themselves . . . many times over . . . JAMES G. ORD Captain, U.S.A.F. (Reserve) Washington, D.C.

Other Edens

Sir:

I have just read "Sir Anthony Eden: The Man Who Waited" [April 11 ]. Please accept my congratulations for this fine and straightforward resume of Sir Anthony's career. It ought to be read by all concerned in the study of British political and diplomatic developments . . .

P.S. Dolmage-Heath Lima, Peru

Sir:

In your article anent the new Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden . . . you say two of Eden's brothers, Timothy and Nicholas, were killed. When last heard of in 1949, Sir Timothy Calvert Eden was going strong as eighth baronet, and so to speak, chief of the family tong. It was John Eden--the eldest of four brothers of whom Timothy was second, Anthony third and Nicholas fourth -- who was killed in the Kaiser's war in France . . . Nicholas, a midshipman, died in the Battle of Jutland.

Sir Timothy inherited the title from his '"irascible" father Sir William in 1915, later spent some time as a P.W

JOHN W. BURNHAM Pasadena, Calif.

P: TIME erred. Sir Timothy, head of the House of Eden, leads a squire's life in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, has written several books (Five Dogs and Two More, The Tribulations of a Baronet), finds time to teach in a girls' school and dash off occasional oil paintings. For his portrait of Brother Anthony, see cut.--ED.

The Watkins Amendment

Sir:

... I was interested in your April 4 observation that "Before the [Senate] Finance Committee hearings were well under way, more than 100 amendments had been introduced, nearly all of them tossing a tariff sop to localized industries, with little regard for the common good." I sincerely hope that you were not including in that list of 100 amendments that which I have introduced . . . Briefly, the Watkins amendment would:

1) Give the President authority to reduce tariffs for a two-year period, which he requested in his special message to the Congress on the foreign economic policy. I, no less than the President, believe that we should, wherever possible, encourage freer exchange of goods and services between ourselves and foreign countries . . .

2) Revitalize the U.S. Tariff Commission by establishing specific criteria which it is directed to consider in arriving at decisions on escape-clause proceedings. The U.S. Tariff Commission rather than Congress as a whole is best equipped to determine the forms and degree of protection for domestic industries.

3) Return to Congress, however, substantive control over escape-clause proceedings by reserving to either house of the Congress the power by a majority vote of its members to override the recommendations of the Tariff Commission . . .

ARTHUR V. WATKINS United States Senate Washington, D.C.

A Cad's Career

Sir:

Why did you give so much space to the Jelke story in your April 11 issue? Surely, the two or three burning paragraphs at the beginning would have been sufficient.

HELEN LOGAN

Rockford, Ill.

Sir:

It is not Mickey Jelke, but our lawmakers who should be on trial. Unless there is existing coercion, selling sex is no more improper than selling coffee or cigarettes.

MIKE YACONIS Russellton, Pa.

Sir:

Pat Ward is not the first to "drift horizontally" into cafe society, but smarter girls take jewels, avoiding income tax and naughty names. The real immoralists are her patrons, who have $100 to throw away on such prosaic entertainment. They, not Minot or his Patsy, should be tried. Other career girls also have started at the bottom. Pat's sin was not ambition but impatience.

CONSTANTINA KOS Beverly Hills, Calif.

Sir:

Re your Jelke story: headline of the week, month and year is "The Solid Gold Cad." If the jeu de mots was good enough for the Age of Reason, i.e., the 18th century, leave us give it a whirl in the 20th, and not a minute too soon, if you ask me ...

MARY ROSE BRADFORD Santa Fe

Struggles of a Reader

Sir:

At my age (58) one does not like to give up old sources of entertainment without a struggle, hence this analysis of your April 11 issue. The stage is set in the Publisher's Letter . . . Proceeding through NATIONAL AFFAIRS to the piece headed "Nothing Sacred," we learn that a stumblebum Senator [Matthew Neely] has had the temerity to express his irritation with [the President's] well-publicized churchgoing habits. . . Then, why you devoted one page in JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES to the epistle of AECommissioner Murray ("Science and religion must join if the world is to survive the H-bomb") is difficult to understand . . .

The religious tone continues in PEOPLE with a reference to Billy Graham's understandable reluctance to include man's dumb friends in his ministrations . . . Follows the RELIGION section. Good taste prohibits critical comment of other people's devotional gymnastics . . . CINEMA includes a review of a minister's filmed biography. Boy, oh boy, did you go overboard! We cannot help but admire the fine attitude of your reviewer, who bewails the fact that "the story has depressingly little to say about religion . . ." You strike the final blow for the church in BOOKS--by printing the miserable caricature of Charles Darwin . . . Perhaps I should change my reading habits and switch to Esquire. It has no "message"--but the girls are better-looking.

W. A. DeRIDDER San Marino, Calif.

Sir:

Re your April 11 issue: your Publisher's Letter put the finishing touch on that exceptionally fine article on the Maryknoll Sisters; it was also "warm and human."

(FATHER) JAMES KELLER New York City

The Maryknoll Story (Contd.)

Sir:

I am not a Catholic, but I . . . want to give you my highest praise for your article on the Maryknoll Sisters [April 11]. I am glad to read that they are broadminded enough to appreciate the hula, and that some of them keep up with things by seeing movies. I also agree that their habits could use some redesigning, but nuns should look like nuns, and not like policewomen or WAFs . . .

CHARLOTTE WARDLAW DOWMAN Randolph Field, Texas

Sir:

Your pious attempt to glamorize nunnery was one of the most nauseating pieces of propaganda I've yet seen in TIME. . . . New York City is 47.6% Roman Catholic. Why don't you move your editorial offices away from the influences of the big city ? . . .

P. T. DOOLEY Norfolk, Va.

Sir:

Thank you for your article on Maryknoll. You have comprehensively answered the common question, ''Do nuns shave their heads?" by pointing out that it really doesn't make any difference whether they do or not.

THOMAS SHAFFER San Antonio

Sir:

. . You [are] asking us to swallow too large a dose of the antiScriptural, heretical doings of the Roman Catholics . . .

BETTY VEGORS Astoria, Ore.

Sir:

... I cannot understand how any writer can say that a nun's life is a normal and natural vocation . . . Celibacy, flagellation and corporal penances, as practiced by the Carmelites, took place during the Dark Ages of history . . . Whether one believes in Mother Nature, the process of evolution, or God, logic tells us that our purpose in life is not to castigate . . . and punish ourselves in order to attain a state of being outside the realm of man's experience, but to live according to the times with healthy outlooks both of clear mind and sound body . . .

VALERIE GARDNER Flushing, N.Y.

Sir:

Your treatment of the Maryknoll Sisters was highly sensitive . . . The great welfare program of the Roman Catholic Church in this country is in the main carried by such ladies ... As an industrialist learned when he said, "Sister, I would not do what you do for a million dollars." She answered, "Neither would I. But I do it for the love of God."

(THE RT. REV. MSGR.) JAMES J.LYNCH Executive Director Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New York

Cha Cha Cha Sir:

I noted with interest that possibly the Dominican dance, the merengue, would succeed the mambo craze in the U.S. [April 4]. At the present time, a new dance-music craze is sweeping Mexico, it is called the Cha Cha Cha, and I would venture a guess that within a year it will have a strong hold on the cool cats of the U.S. . . .

MADELINE TOURTELOT

Cuernavaca, Mexico

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