Klee on the Side
Sir:
I was interested in TIME'S suggested interpretation of Paul Klee's High Water-Wood [Sept. 17]. Modern art can mean different things to different people. Tip the picture to the left and you can see Woman eternally holding Man in her fingers. Judging from their expressions, neither one is too happy about this situation.
IRENE POWELL ANDERSON Chicago
Sir:
Klee's whimsy is in the realm of fantasy but never obscurity. Turn the painting in a vertical position and the "areas of green, yellow and blue" show a self-portrait.
HELEN M. KELLEY
Lansing, Mich.
P:For a look at Klee on the side, see
cut.--ED.
Estes of Este
Sir:
In your Sept. 17 article on Estes Kefauver, the statement is made that Phredonia Estes was descended from the d'Este family, rulers of Ferrara. According to most known accounts, the family died out in the 18th century. Furthermore, I cannot conceive of any descendant of such a royal house allowing his name to degenerate to Estes.
ANDREA G. STONE
New York City
P:Says Estes: "The family didn't die out in the 18th century, and Fm living proof of that fact. They came to England from Italy; they were chased out of Italy because they were too involved in politics."--ED.
Sir:
That frivolous grin, which seems to be Kefauver's natural expression, fits a professional comedian. Democrats belittle Nixon as a potential President. What price Kefauver?
JOHN P. TATE Asheville, N.C.
Sir:
Considering the exaggeration, distortion and misinterpretation that you employed in trying to ridicule Estes Kefauver, I am not surprised you could find no one better than John Rankin of Mississippi to quote from to back up your opinions.
ALICE HEFT Woodmere, N.Y.
Sir:
Your write-up of Estes Kefauver was very illuminating. But it needs to be completed by the statement that Senator Kefauver is the son of a Baptist deacon, grandson of a Baptist minister and one of the outstanding laymen of the Southern Baptist denomination.
F.I. DREXLER, D.D. Mill Valley, Calif.
Sir:
You have sunk to a new low in slurring the opponents of the Great White Father who golfs on Mount Olympus.
DAVENPORT AND MARCIA PLUMER Cambridge, Mass.
Sir:
Undoubtedly the ability to pitch manure [Sept. 17] is a necessary qualification for the Democrat candidate for Vice President? What can "Adduhlay" do?
C. H. SCOTT MCALISTER Bloomington, Ind.
Sir:
I wonder if the American voter will not say on Nov. 7: "As [Kefauver] loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but as he was ambitious, I slew him."
With credit, of course, to W. Shakespeare.
T. F. CLARK Maryculter, Scotland
Adlai & the Issues
Sir:
By displaying such gross ignorance of the American scene ("Who is Elvis Presley?"--Sept. 17) Stevenson has disqualified himself for the presidency.
RALPH BOHMER Jamestown, N.Y.
Sir:
Adlai is promising miracles: sounder money, but lower taxes; bigger federal spending, but a balanced budget; stronger defense, but end the draft. Barnum would exhibit him as the original magician if only Barnum were alive.
I. W. WARD
Weaverville, N.C.
The Issue
Sir:
All of the planks in the platforms at Chicago and San Francisco, all of the speeches, all of the nominations failed in setting up a real issue we could get our teeth into. But Adlai and Harry have done it for us. No doubt about it--Adlai nominated Nixon in his opening television speech, and a week eariier Harry had set up Alger Hiss for a second term. So let's fight it out on their own battle line: Nixon v. Hiss.
Isn't that the reai issue anyway ?
JOHN P. DALEY
Los Altos, Calif.
He Knows the World
Sir:
In the September 10 issue you note that Stevenson states: "Eisenhower doesn't really know the country. He was out of it, or else he was at Army posts, insulated and isolated." This seems an extremely narrow-minded viewpoint. Mr. Eisenhower, thanks to his vast experiences outside the U.S., is the one man best suited to guide a world power through an era which demands consideration and knowledge of all nations.
RONALD S. CHAD WICK 2nd Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. Houston
Men of Music
Sir:
TIME'S music staff is to be congratulated for fine stories on two comparatively unknown yet great musicians: Gesualdo, long dead and almost forgotten except by a handful of music lovers, and Don Elliott, long a musician's musician, whose star is just beginning to rise.
S. JACOBS New York City
The Wrong Man
Sir:
I have always suspected that your movie reviewer has a long one instead of a short one before he goes to a show. In the review of The Ambassador's Daughter [Sept. 17] appeared the mistake that Forsythe thought Olivia and her father (Edward Arnold) were lovers. It was Adolphe Menjou, the Senator, that Forsythe thought was the lover. Your reviewer tries to be smart and ends up being neither smart nor accurate, but silly.
PAUL MONTGOMERY Oklahoma City
Banker's Banker
Sir:
Your cover story on William McChesney Martin Jr. was perused with a great deal of interest. It is hoped that not a few economics instructors will make it required reading for their classes. It will make them think, if nothing else.
RICHARD P. PETTY Detroit
A Question from Abroad
Sir:
No Americans feel more strongly about the current campaigning in the States than those oi us who are living abroad. Why don t Adlai and Ike do some speeches outlining their respective stands, on movie or TV film, for distribution throughcut the armed forces theaters? All I've seen so far of the '56 elections was a two-minute newscast of the Republicans at the Cow Palace, and not a wink of Ike anywhere.
EDWARD J. COFFEY Darmstadt, Germany
Fast Demotion
Sir:
Since when does a Moscow gallery employ four-star generals as museum guards, as described in the footnote to the photo of Indonesia's Sukarno [Sept. 17 ]? That ''non-destalinized" personage in the uniform of a Red army general must have won many a battle with art patrons in his capacity as museum guard to have earned four stars, the Order of the Red Banner and four rows of ribbons. I wonder who he is.
S. G. YASINITSKY
Burlingame, Calif.
P:No museum guard, he is General M. I. Kazakov (see cut), senior military representative assigned to accompany Indonesia's Sukarno in Russia.--ED.
Dilemma for Doctors
Sir:
I am one of the many U.S. citizens who will be the "foreign-trained doctors Hocking to the U.S." [Sept. 17]. I had to go to school overseas because I couldn't get into a U.S. medical school, and it wasn't because I "lacked premedical requirements." Let Dean Rappleye devote his energies to 1) eliminating the U.S. medical school quotas on Negroes, Jews and Catholics (in that order), and 2) explaining why the U.S. is the only country in the world where not all qualified premedical students can go on to medical school.
IRVING BRONSKY Geneva, Switzerland Sir:
European medicine has contributed modern surgery, bacteriology, antibiotics, tranquilizing drugs; Switzerland won the Nobel Prize in medicine three times within a ten-year period. And most American professors received their specialty training in Europe. All this from "diploma mills"?
JAY LEFER, M.D. New York City
Still Mad
Sir:
I was shocked at your erroneous statement [Sept. 24] that the magazine Mad had been "short lived." It's not even sick. Mad expects to be around till the end of Time.
MARTIN J. SCHEIMAN New York City
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