Man of the Year

Sir:

Why not break your excellent habit of nominating a well-known person and put a world-forgotten person like me on your cover? It is not because I am interesting, but I have the idea it will be an attraction if you nominate an unknown world citizen who has had, until now, bad luck. I am Dutch, 51 years of age, of French descent.

J. CHR. BRUNET DE ROCHEBRUNE Montevideo, Uruguay

Sir:

Harlow H. Curtice of General Motors: symbol and epitome of American industry. He has the vision, the courage, the initiative and the spirit that make business a success and Americans' magnificent production a reality.

HECTOR RABEZZANA Fenton, Mich.

Sir:

The men of the year: Bulganin and Khrushchev. These two poison ivy twins of deceit and doublecross inaugurated their diabolical crusade at the Summit with their blandishments of sweetness and avowal for peace.

B. K. FRANK Portland, Ore.

Sir:

Dr. Jonas Salk. Millions yet unborn will benefit by his discovery.

SIDNEY HAAS

Cleveland

Sir:

The man is Johnny Podres !

JACK LAMB

Memphis

Sir:

Novelist William Faulkner--that lover of individualism and privacy.

GERALD N. WINN

Chicago

The Speculators

Sir:

The Bulganin-Khrushchev tour of India [Nov. 28] suggests two prospective proprietors looking over a farm, accompanied by Real Estate Broker Nehru.

JAMES R. BAILEY Winter Park, Fla.

The Fund for the Republic

Sir:

Boiled down, what you say about the Fund for the Republic [Nov. 28] means that its $15 million is being thrown in big chunks to Utopian-minded eggheads who are greatly concerned about our civil liberties but are not concerned about stopping Communism.

WALDO LOCHRIDGE Coral Gables, Fla.

Sir:

You prove nothing when you assert that Robert Hutchins is no more Communist-minded than Adams or Burke. You could have included Columbus or Pocahontas in your list too. Hutchins has made the Fund a kind of fund for the American Nightmare!

CLYDE K. RICH Brigadier General, U.S.A.F. (Ret.) Tucson, Ariz.

Sir:

Mr. Hutchins is a hell of a good man. I guess things are not too bad when a man like him is allowed to do some good.

L. THIERS Chicago

Sir:

I note that Fund President Hutchins has confused liberty with license, is the "ponderous pixie" who uses endowment for current whims. Why not endow the study of the love life of lefthanded caterpillars? That would do no harm and would give employment to plenty of pixies.

MILTON W. BROWN

Cincinnati

Profits & Prophets (Contd.)

Sir:

Being on the cover of TIME [Nov; 21] is, I find, quite a responsibility! Already I have heard from dozens of people about the story; it is one of the most comprehensive and penetrating pieces which have appeared about our business.

KEITH FUNSTON President

New York Stock Exchange New York City

Israel & Islam

Sir:

Nothing points up the pro-Arab bias of TIME more than the brief letter by Nasser [Nov. 28], in which he expresses his "admiration for the article dealing with the Egyptian revolution." In the same issue you publish an anti-American-Jewish piece by William Zukerman [JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES]. Let TIME and Zukerman note that I and a vast number of American Jews are not Zionists, or particularly favorable toward Zionism, but we feel bitterly that Israel is getting a raw deal. Jew or no Jew, in the great American tradition, I am for the underdog.

A. KLEIN Mt. Vernon, N.Y.

Sir:

Bah! Who listens to William Zukerman? Jews, Zionists and non-Zionists alike would find his little piece in your magazine a laughable nuisance were there anything for Jews to laugh about right now. The gentile world doesn't understand what it's all about, and believe me, with Christmas and happiness coming on, they don't care.

MRS. MARY BOLOTIN Los Angeles

Sir:

TIME may have its blind spots, but the Middle East is not one of them. And this is especially refreshing at a time when so many otherwise well-intentioned and well-informed publications are cajoled or cowed into confusion on the Arab-Israel issue. So congratulations for your courageous reprinting of the little Jewish Newsletter's editorial exposing Zionist hysteria.

DOROTHEA SEELYE FRANCK Washington, B.C.

Sir:

This anti-Semitic Jewish representative of a splinter group of local Jewry is in no way qualified to pass judgment on the natural fears now possessing the overwhelming majority of Jews, who are proud of Israel.

THOMAS MYERS, M.D.

Huntington Park, Calif.

Sir:

The views of the Jewish Newsletter are not conventional and not frequently heard by the readers of the large-circulation journals. Your reproduction was, therefore, particularly appreciated by me and by our Editorial Advisory Board.

WILLIAM ZUKERMAN Editor

Jewish Newsletter New York City

Philadelphia's New Mayor

Sir:

While resting down in this beautiful spot, I was able to purchase your Nov. 21 edition, and immediately wanted to express my appreciation of the extremely fair, complimentary article which it carried on the Philadelphia election. It has been a long, eight-year struggle, and it was a great satisfaction to finally crash through. I am most fortunate to succeed an excellent mayor, and to inherit a fine team of administrators. We hope to keep the old city moving forward.

RICHARDSON DILWORTH Montego Bay, Jamaica, B.WM.

Vivid & Exciting Sir: The Julie Harris piece [Nov. 28] is brilliant--the most vivid and exciting, not to say the best-written estimate of an actress I've read in years and years.

RICHARD MANEY

New York City

Sir:

For a long time I've hated your cruelty against mediocrity. After all, mediocrity is the common denominator of human beings; what can they do about it? But on reading your article on Julie Harris, I have to deeply admire your humbleness in front of greatness. In describing Miss Harris' human weaknesses, you don't use sarcasm; instead, you write about them with a sort of, shall we say, reluctant reverence.

WILLIAM RUNNELS Chicago

Sir: Congratulations--or something--for your cover of Julie Harris as Joan of Arc, by Henry Koerner as Paul Cezanne--quite a tour de force for one set of four-color plates.

ALLAN HARRISON

New York City

Sir:

What does Julie Harris think of the Koerner cover?

JOHN N. HIGGINS

Brooklyn

¶ She likes it.--ED.

The Russian Master

Sir:

Oistrakh "A Master" [Nov. 28]? Please, no restrictions, Oistrakh is the master.

LOUISE M. BEAUCHEMIN Montreal

Sir:

Why do you guys always criticize talented American boys like Liberace and praise Commies like Oistrakh?

J. ADAMS New York City

Reborn Industry

Sir:

In the Nov. 14 issue you ran an item on Willy Messerschmitt and his production of planes as well as nonmilitary items such as sewing machines. Since we have just introduced the Messerschmitt automatic sewing machine under the brand name Bell-Messer-schmitt "Magnematic" into the U.S. market, we were most interested in seeing the article, but disturbed at your implication that the Augsburg plant, which produces the machines, was being converted to plane production.

BERNICE SLAFF

Sales Promotion Manager Bell Portable Sewing Machine Corp. Jersey City

¶ TIME should have made clear that Messerschmitt's Augsburg plant consists of four different factories; three will produce planes, the fourth sewing machines.--ED.

Swamp Notes

Sir:

I am utterly frustrated by "gyascutus, prock, tree squeak and swamp gaboon" [Nov. 28]. You frequently footnote less esoteric phrases. Please elucidate.

DENIS E. COGGIN Westfield, Mass.

¶ Shame on Reader Coggin for not recognizing such denizens of U.S. folklore. The gyascutus (stone-eating variety) resembles the prock, or sidehill sauger, insofar as its telescopic legs enable it to graze easily on steep hillsides; it is unrelated, however, to the tree squeak and swamp gaboon (both offshoots of the lowly whangdoodle group), but it does claim a sort of Pilgrim kinship to the English slithy toves and borogoves.--ED.

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