Unprized Packaging

Sir:

We predict that that picture of Marilyn Monroe in TIME, May 5, will bring the sale of sack dresses to a screeching halt. Hell, that might as well have been Vaughn Monroe. JACK SHERIDAN JOHN HOWBERT Denver

Recessional

Sir:

How can anyone call this a depression when the consumer is paying inflation prices for inferior goods and services?

MARNIE BRINK Newark, Del.

Sir:

Why not place the blame where it belongs -upon the shoulders of organized labor? MRS. ALFRED R. MOSHER Colorado Springs, Colo.

Sir:

Thank heavens we have dedicated men like Harry S. Truman who will lead us into a depression and worldwide ruin for their own political gain.

ROBERT M. SHEERIN San Antonio

Fins & Finish

Sir:

About "Those '58 Cars" [May 12]: Why don't they just dip the damn things in chrome? Think of all the labor saved.

JOHN S. PARILLI New York City

Sir:

An ever-increasing number of motorists are becoming thoroughly fed up with the overweighted, undersprung, swerving, swaying, tire-screeching, chrome-splashed, trinket-laden, gas-eating monsters that Detroit has been forcing upon the American public.

EDWARD FISHER JR. Groton, Mass.

Sir:

To place too great an importance on the foreign car switch may be a grave error. The one I purchased included extras such as windshield wipers which never worked, directional signals which didn't direct and foot pedals which were no larger than a Grade A egg. I now drive a finned Plymouth.

JIM DIMICELI New York City

U.R.S.S.

Sir:

I am perplexed by "U.R.S.S." over the entrance to the Soviet pavilion at the Brussels Fair [see cut]. Should this not be "U.S.S.R."?

CHARLES R. McKEEN Clinton, N.Y.

Sir:

Do the letters stand for United Rubber Stamp Society?

MRS. JOHN WINCHESTER Walnut Creek, Calif.

P: They stand for Union des Republiques Socialistes Sovietiques. -ED.

She Was Framed

Sir:

Is that thing in your May 5 Art section Adele Astaire in 1926? Bosh! Oskar Kokoschka must have seen his sitter through his own tortured "inner life."

J. M. PLUMMER Wayne, Pa.

Sir:

With your permission, I'd like to give my opinion of the Kokoschka picture of my sister. I think it's a hideous mess. As great an artist as this man may be today, he certainly goofed in 1926. My sister is a very pretty girl.

FRED ASTAIRE Beverly Hills

The Vice President

Sir:

TIME [May 5] did one of its finest jobs in clarity in exposing a cross section of Vice President Nixon's courageous, non-political talk before the A.N.P.A. Every day, Nixon grows in stature as a great American statesman with the courage of his convictions while so many of his opponents spar in the political ring for punches designed to slam through the front pages. He must be doing all right for himself, because the shadows in the dark, slimy political alleys continue to try to smear him with the wornout, age-old charges never proved, but kept alive by the followers of Hiss, Truman, Rayburn and others who have dedicated themselves to the vilification of this man of destiny.

NATHAN E. JACOBS

Chicago

Sir; Nixon is not going to be our next President. A Democrat will be in the White House come 1960.

JOHN G. SAVAGE Bellwood, Ill.

Verdicts Sir; I should like to congratulate TIME [May 5] for its incisive commentary on the return of modern jurisprudence from unguided prag to first principles. If the ideal func tion of a news magazine is to chart the pulse of a changing society, TIME has fulfilled its purpose admirably.

JOSEPH M. MCLAUGHLIN Editor in Chief Fordham Law Review Fordham University New York City

Sir:

It is wonderful that TIME is really inviting European and Latin American leaders and intellectuals to have a better understanding of the U.S.

RUI OCTAVIO DOMINGUES Rio de Janeiro

Sir:

Regarding your "Law Day" article: I hope that by such a celebration, perhaps some of the principles of law and justice may be re-introduced to that mass of human leeches masquerading as lawyers who feed upon the common man by twisting, distorting, thwarting and negating the law.

F. L. MARTIN

Alexandria, Va.

Do Clothes Make the Boy?

Sir:

Re juvenile delinquency: In my youth, boys were required to wear short pants. When we reached our teens, we were allowed knickers, and in mid-teens we made the manly fashion world of long pants. Who ever heard of a gang leader or murderer wearing short pants or knickers?

M. LESLIE STIFEL Atlantic City, N.J.

Encore

Sir:

Many people were impressed with your pernicious and less than one-dimensional account [May 5] of my rich and overflowing psyche, which is at the disposal of friends and strangers. Unfortunately, strangers are more attracted to me than my friends, for some unaccountable reason.

My alleged addiction to what you so euphemistically call the bottle is a classic in hyperbole. It is true, however, that I have incessantly forayed into the realm of escape. There are times when I awake and discover it is still I -which is as horrible and macabre a reality as anyone has ever had to endure.

Factually, I was ordered to drink by my doctor after my heart attack in 1952, and

I did drink, but I discovered alcohol is the dullest form of escape I've ever experienced in my rigid adventures. During this otiose period I was continually accompanied by a large bottle of Scotch for which I had (and have) the utmost contempt. So with great character I exorcised this minor unsatisfactory pleasure abruptly and have not drunk since 1954. I still carry a big bottle around with me, but I don't drink.

OSCAR LEVANT

Beverly Hills

Up in the Stream

Sir:

Re "Rescue by Radiation" [April 28]: Our body defenses against infection would be sad indeed if we had only "5,000 white cells per cubic centimeter." Let us give our bodies a fighting chance with 5,000-10,000 leukocytes per cubic millimeter of whole blood.

M.ANMUTH Philadelphia

P: TIME hastens to reassure readers that they normally have 5,000-10,000 white corpuscles per cubic millimeter working for them. -ED.

The Artful Dodger

Sir:

Your story of how that city slicker (meaning Walter O'Malley) "took" the country bumpkins (meaning our Dodger contract signers) makes all other such stories fade into insignificance. We are opposed to subsidizing big business, which organized baseball definitely is, and we hope those of our citizens -for and against the Dodger contract -can get together and draw up a new one. One that will allow us to have this team, but will give this city a fair share.

B. R. HICKEY Los Angeles

WW v. JP

Sir:

Re your May 5 "Titans of Babel": Thank gawd, someone -mainly Elsa Maxwell and Jack Paar -had the nerve (I'd rather say '"guts") to bring that poor-white-trash Walter Winchell down a peg.

R. R. DODGE Buckroe Beach, Va.

SIR:

THANKS FOR RUNNING THE PICTURE SHOWING THAT I HAVE VOTED FOLLOWING THE CLAIM BY THOSE PARASITES THAT I HAVE NEVER.

WW

NEW YORK CITY

Goodness, Good Guinness

Sir:

A wonderfully sensitive and understanding article on Alec Guinness. You have some gifted writers on your staff.

J. A. HENDERSON Cowan, Tenn.

Sir:

My goodness, your Guinness is good!

W. L. ALSTON St. Thomas, B.W.I.

Slow Reactors

Sir:

After reading the list of clergymen and educators who signed a protest against the U.S. nuclear tests, I wondered what they were doing when the U.S.S.R. was making tests last winter.

H. J. LECLERC Manchester, N.H.

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