Man of the Year Sir:

Hank Aaron of Milwaukee for Hall of Fame; Faubus of Arkansas for Hall of Shame.

D. I. EPSTEIN

Evanston, Ill.

Sir:

The American Negro.

J. T. ESSE

Stanford, Calif.

Sir:

Having just read The New Class, I should like to nominate Milovan Djilas.

OLIVER BRYK

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

In spite of Sputnik, etc., I still think the man is Dr. Jonas Salk.

ROLF RONAY

Miami

Toad on the Road

Sir:

Five gets you ten that Packard's satchel-mouthed "Hawk" hits the street under the name of "The Toad."

DICK MOORE

Rochester, N.Y.

Sputnik v. the U.S.

Sir:

Would you call the U.S.S.R.'s satellite a flying SOUSSR?

EVELYN RYAN

Villa Park, Ill.

Sir:

The Administration explains that the Vanguard satellite lags because "basic missile research and development" has priority over the satellite. Hasn't the Administration noticed that while we have neither, the Russians have both?

STANLEY METALITZ

College Park, Md.

Sir:

In your Oct. 21 article, "Project Vanguard," you failed to state the ultimate reason for our failure to produce a satellite: the complacency and apathy of the American people.

EDWARD KWIDZIEL

Cudahy, Wis.

Sir:

Twinkle, twinkle, little Sputnik,

My only comment is: So whutnik!

QUIGLEY JONES

Fort Sill, Okla.

Sir:

You Americans should take a good look at the writing on the wall and stop bickering about local politics, race prejudices, etc., and commence to work as a nation and a team.

V. W. DELANCEY

Soest Westfalen, Germany

Sir:

Physicist Edward Teller may have said that U.S. scientists are relatively underpaid. What does he have to say about Russia's underpaid scientists, or are they overpaid? The trouble with us is that we just don't find an end for pricing money. I am sure that Russia does not spend so many billion dollars as we do to lift a pinhead.

DAN GARCIA

West Los Angeles, Calif.

Sir:

I note the Army's Jupiter has reached an altitude higher than Sputnik's orbit. Why isn't the last stage of Jupiter's rocket or missile orbiting about in space?

W. R. WARD

Lyells, Va.

P: A vehicle cannot be set in orbit merely by getting it up to the required height; it involves many factors, including speed, rocket stages, angle of firing, etc.--ED.

Sir:

Some of us think the Russians are ahead of us in science. More than two years ago Dr. Jonas Salk offered the anti-polio vaccine. The great scientific achievements are those which ease human suffering and cure the mental and organic ailments which plague mankind.

PAUL H. ADRIANCE

Moses Lake, Wash.

U.S. Innocents Abroad

Sir:

Your Oct. 21 picture of Chou En-lai and those 15 visiting U.S. students clapping hands together--obviously impervious to the blood of thousands, nay millions, on those hands--sickened me to disgust. God save us from such Americans!

EDWIN MORRIS JR.

Roslyn, N.Y.

Royal Visit

Sir:

I found your cover picture of Prince Philip disappointing, disgusting and irritating. 1 am a Spaniard, and I cannot bear to see pictures of English royalty.

JOAQUIN A. BARRETTO

Manila

Sir:

A deep bow to Prince Philip. To find a place in the sun while standing in the long shadow cast by Queen Elizabeth is a notable achievement indeed.

JAMES McLAUGHLIN

Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Sir:

Your cover picture of Prince Philip shows the whole world how stupid we English are for tolerating such a fantastic circus uniform.

KARL JOHN WILSON

Santiago

Sir:

You failed to identify the uniform worn by Prince Philip. As their Colonel-in-Chief, he wears the uniform of The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars.

KENNETH H. POWERS

Queens Village, N.Y.

P: Right--ED.

Sir:

Congratulations for the splendid and highly original way in which you handled the story of Queen Elizabeth II and her household. Unlike so many other publications that fell for the same, oldfashioned, staid recitations on the Queen's "private" life, duties, etc., you brought to life some real, offbeat and very interesting information about Her Majesty, her husband and family. And--and for this you deserve a tumultuous round of applause--you gave us a shot of Philip on the cover. Whoever thought of using his picture in place of the Queen's has a decided flair for originality.

JOHN R. MCBRIDE

Assistant Editor

New York Mirror

New York City

Sir:

Reflecting on the successful visit of the Queen to the U.S., and recalling the uneasiness of the U.S. public at being barred from giving Mr. Eisenhower a third and fourth term, may I offer Americans a suggestion? Crown Mr. Eisenhower. Thus, you will correct a rather deplorable mistake made by your forefathers, satisfy the American craving for a nobility, and preserve in the limelight that amiable grin, which might otherwise disappear in the obscurity of a General Motors directorship.

V. S. PAPEZIK

Montreal, Canada

Full-Bodied Bier

Sir:

Re your TV & Radio review of the World Series: Hail to the Yankee bier that made Milwaukee famous!

CARY GOULSON

Victoria, B.C.

Quantitative Sin

Sir:

Theology like that of the Very Rev. Francis J. Connell, which considers sin to be a quantitative commodity (e.g., three packs of cigarettes a day) and propounds such absurd logic as: "Moderate cigarette smoking is not sinful . . . while immoderate smoking is a sin," is what keeps this small room we call Life so smoke-filled.

CHARLES L. WILLIAMS JR.

Natoma, Kans.

Sir:

Moralist Connell's attempt to define what constitutes sin in cigarette smoking, by degrees or by the pack, is too much for me to smoke in my pipe. He has merely raised another question. Three packs of regular or king size, filter tip or plain?

JOHN R. KENNEDY

Oklahoma City

Sir:

Would the learned Father Connell care to speculate on the number of sinners that could burn on the lighted end of a cigarette?

R. L. ROESSLER

Philadelphia

Sir:

As far as I know, the Roman Catholic Church does not condemn the "held hand and the shared ice-cream soda." It is the roaming hand and the shared whisky-and-soda which this practice may lead to. The church has the right and obligation to protect the moral life of its members.

THOMAS A. FERRARA

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

As a Catholic, I must disagree with the statements of Santa Fe's Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne concerning the "pagan" act of kissing, etc. Further, no one has the right to restrict my smoking or my drinking. This is an invasion of private rights, unwarranted by anything in the Bible.

CHARLES O'HURLEY

Cambridge, Mass.

Exclusive Clubs?

Sir:

Concerning your Oct. 21 Education story "What Makes Them Good?": I consider the method of selection used in Robert Marschner's list of outstanding secondary schools to be completely inadequate and unfair. To use the absolute number of 20 finalists in the Merit Scholarship test as the sole basis is to be unfair to those high schools whose academic achievement is high but whose enrollment is low. If such a list is to be valid, it certainly should be compiled on a percentage basis.

RONALD JENSEN

Buffalo

Sir:

TIME publishes Robert Marschner's 38 outstanding schools on the basis of scholarship awards. When will educators wake up to the fact that schools are for all and not just the college-bound few? These schools sound like exclusive clubs. Whatever happened to the idea of universal education, or is that important ?

ROBERT T. RASMUSSEN

Glen Cove, N.Y.

Sir:

Thanks to you for doing such a good job of reporting the findings of my high school study. The article had good balance and did not overplay unimportant aspects.

ROBERT MARSCHNER

Homewood, Ill.

Modern Mayan

Sir:

Those early Mayan archaeological discoveries (Oct. 21) look Frank Lloyd Wright inspired. Of course, no offense intended to either architect.

THOMAS H. BULPITT

Shaker Heights, Ohio

P: For Reader Bulpitt's apt comparison, see cuts.--ED.

Hilarious Horrors

Sir:

I thought your Bloody Marys [Oct. 21] were hilarious! How about:

Little Willie, with a roar, nailed

the baby to the door,

Mother cried, in accents faint,

"Oh, Willie dear, do mind the paint!"

CHRISTINIA I. PIROZEK

Arlington, Va.

Sir:

Daddy, why is Mommy so pale?

Shut up, kid, and keep digging.

Hi, Anastasia. How's the family?

Mrs. Custer, would you care to donate to Indian relief?

STEVE SCHAEFER

Princeton, N J.

Sir:

Oh, what is that, my dear mama,

that looks like strawberry jam?

Oh, hush, my child, 'tis poor papa

run over by a tram.

W. E. SIEBERT

London

Sir:

And on the other hand, she had three fingers--her father owned a sawmill!

GENE BLAKE

Wallace, N.C.

Sir:

Mommy, what are vampires?

Shut up, Junior, and drink your blood!

JIM McGAVRAN

Columbus, Ohio

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