This (Pause) Is To Murrow
Sir:
The Ed Murrow of today with his saturnine good looks [TIME, Sept. 30] has always been a favorite of mine. But your cut of Egbert Murrow, aged 5, with a look of truculent determination, has won me over completely.
MRS. HAPPY MIWA
St. Paul
Sir:
Saturnine looks . . . but not, by gads, saturnine good looks. The man is a monster.
DEDE SMITH Indianapolis
Sir:
This (pause) is my view. More EGGbert than Ed.
ELIZABETH HAMM Los Angeles
Sir:
To Murrow and To Murrow and To Murrow, To the last syllable of recorded TIME.
EILEEN O'BRIEN New York City
Sir:
I am much impressed with the stature of Edward R. Murrow. But the big question remains: Wielding as much power as he does, what will he do to improve the quality of television ?
JOAN P. SEALY San Mateo, Calif.
What Orval Wrought
SIR:
I NOMINATE AS MAN OF THE YEAR, ORVAL FAUBUS, FOR BRINGING SHAME TO THE NATION AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY.
PETER BICKFORD SHERMAN OAKS, CALIF.
Sir:
I was delighted to read your article on Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus [Sept. 23]. I, and many other Arkansans, feel that
Faubus was working for political reasons--to keep from losing the governorship when his term expires. The "calling out of the Guard for public safety" certainly surprised most peace-loving Arkansas people. Thanks for your unbiased report.
RALPH W. SANDERS Fort Smith, Ark.
Sir: Cancel my subscription.
H. B. HAWKINS Richmond, Va.
Sir: Let us all thank Orval Faubus for reminding us of a forgotten privilege--states' rights!
J. G. THORNBURG
Wheeling, W. Va.
Sir:
Might it not be prudent to withdraw statehood from Arkansas and give it to Hawaii?
JANET W. BILLINGS San Francisco
Sir:
TIME, President Eisenhower, the Supreme Court and other do-gooders may as well try-to dam up the Mississippi River as to force white and colored children to go to school together in the deep South.
PETER CULLOM Washington, B.C.
Sir:
For the colored schoolboys and girls to attempt to attend a school, knowing full well what may happen, takes a great deal more courage than for men to go into battle.
RICHARD L. OWEN Anaheim, Calif.
Sir:
While Faubus was goofing off, the small town of Van Buren (home of Bob Burns) quietly integrated 24 Negro children into a junior high school of 645 white children. They have been going to school in peace and harmony now for two weeks.
MARGARET HUNCKE Fort Smith, Ark.
Sir:
Our Washington Government doesn't seem to know or want to admit that there is a war on right now in America.
FRANK HAILE Knoxville, Tenn.
Sir:
Re the Arkansas affair, I envy Americans only one thing: the opportunity to surrender an American passport.
ARTHUR HENRY VINCENT Dublin
Sir:
My congratulations to Governor Faubus and my best wishes to him during his continuing struggle against federal tyranny.
ROGER H. MILLER Evanston, Ill.
Sir:
May I refer to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II--Antony to himself after delivery of eulogy over Caesar's corpse:
Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt.
KARL M. WRIGHT Chicago
Sir:
You all are sho confusin' this little ole Southern fried gal with you all's nasty ole talk about moonshine, critters, cow brutes, and timber wolves. We have bottled-in-bond tractors, and homogenized grade A heah wheah Ah live. Our wolves sport flattops and move about on wheels--the 1957 variety.
(MRS.) GRAYCE ALEXANDER Monette, Ark.
Sir:
Governor Faubus may be a sophisticated hillbilly, but I prefer that to being a sophisticated ignoramus.
JOHN B. MASON Raymondville, Texas
Sir:
I am a former Arkansan now living in Peapack, N.J. I feel ashamed that Governor Faubus has flouted the law and brought a bad name to the U.S. He has also brought a bad name to a misunderstood state. Maybe we do have a town in Arkansas named Bug Tussle (I have never heard of it), but the name Peapack is laughable to many people, and it's in New Jersey!
GRACE HEISKELL TERRY Peapack, N.J.
Sir:
Your article on Governor Faubus will not only open the eyes of the people in Arkansas, but also it will show the rest of the world that the Americans are not afraid to denounce their selfish, greedy "Orvals."
LARRY WILSON Ottawa
SIR:
POUR IT ON, GENTLEMEN. I WAS BORN IN ARKANSAS, AND I WISH I WAS BORN ELSEWHERE.
WINSTON J. SHELTON DALLAS
Sir:
How could two races so vastly different be integrated suddenly? It is only reasonable that the South would use every method at its disposal to keep the wall of segregation from cracking, because the onslaught would become overwhelming soon after. The spitting on a girl who entered a North Carolina school is not directed to an individual; it is a symptom of desperation and an attempt to prevent the cracking of the wall.
MARCUS H. BLOODWORTH Norfolk, Va.
Sir:
You cannot imagine how much prestige the U.S. has lost during the last few weeks, owing to the integration question. Your government can spend billions and billions of dollars for foreign aid, but it cannot recover the ground it lost through the actions of a man called Faubus.
FRIEDRICH RECK JR. Elisabethville, Belgian Congo
Wifemanship
Sir:
In regard to your article about women dyeing their hair, my wife recently came home a redhead. This was shocking to me, for I married a brunette. We own a small dairy farm and do our own milking; now the cows do not know her, and I have to do it.
HANS GRUNERT Santa Ana, Calif.
Peace after Pilaf
Sir:
In connection with your article about the Armenian Anastas Mikoyan [Sept. 16] shouldn't we know that another distinguished Armenian is slated, in the opinion of most of those who know the prospects, to be the next Pope? I refer to Cardinal Agagianian. Imagine a future meeting of the two at a dinner over two glasses of raki, to be followed by shish-kebab and pilaf with a side dish of yoghurt. What problem couldn't be solved amicably then?
P. H. JERYAN Managua, Nicaragua
Music to Do Housework By
Sir:
I was delighted to discover Sylvia Wright's article [describing housecleaning while listening to opera] in the Sept. 23 issue. La Boheeme, Tosca and Madame Butterfly have often helped me through the ironing.
KAREN BLACK
Pittsburgh
Sir:
I'd hate to see Mistress Wright's domicile after she's listened, and I use the term loosely, to Alban Berg's Wozzeck!
JOANN L. COHN Berkeley, Calif.
Sir:
Try defrosting the refrigerator to Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antartica.
DICK D. GRUBE Lieutenant, U.S. Army Barranquilla, Colombia
Eyes & Nays
Sir: The statement of Princess Aisha of Morocco that "a woman's eyes never get old" [TIME, Sept. 23] moves me to say:
The light that lies in a woman's eyes* May merit blame or praise. But it's not her eyes that man decries; Ah, no! It's woman's nays.
LESLIE QUINBY Teaneck, NJ.
Religion & Politics
Sir:
The spirit that moved Mrs. Janes [TIME, Sept. 30] to allude to Senator John Kennedy as "a man who believes in a foreign ideology" because he is a Roman Catholic, could spring only from the profoundest cesspool of inbred ignorance. The notion that American Catholics are subject to a "foreign power" is absurd.
WILLIAM E. OYLER JR. St. Paul
Sir:
As a Protestant, let me assure Mrs. Janes that she represents a definite minority.
JAMES M. DODSON, U.S.M.C. Washington, D.C.
Sir:
Shouldn't your reader, Mrs. Janes, be reminded that the Constitution does not require a religious test of a candidate for public office?
WILLIAM A. WHALEN
West Albany, N.Y.
Magnetism
Sir:
Re your story on magnetic dentures [Sept. 23]: What happens when two people with magnetic dentures kiss?
MRS. RAPHAEL PINCHAS
New York City
P: Poin-n-n-n-g.--ED.
* From Irish Poet Thomas Moore, who wrote in 1797: The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing .. ,
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