Faubus Rides Again
Sir:
What do you think of Arkansas and Governor Faubus now? Your previous attacks on a man who struggled to make something of himself in the American way were abominable. You even ridiculed his speech (which I greatly prefer to Brooklynese).
C. E. WATTS Avenue, Md.
Sir:
Your Aug. 11 Faubus story is extremely insulting. Violence Southward, try as you will to magnify it, is a mere sniff of the ugly physical revulsion, anarchy and race violence exploding in your own backyard (Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York City, Detroit, etc.).
You may be sure the South will not passively submit to a callous scheme to deprive the whites of their civil rights. Massive resistance is the ever-growing answer as evidenced by the Arkansas vote.
WILLIAM TEMPLE STEVENS Charlottesville, Va.
Sir:
The vote for Faubus was a vote against military occupation of a sovereign state.
W. T. IVEY Birmingham
Sir:
Does Faubus' great victory at the polls justify him? Couldn't the Devil carry his state by a still larger vote?
W. T. DAVIS Lincoln, Neb.
Pause for Paar
Sir:
I was shocked to see a picture of Jack Paar glaring at me from your Aug. 18 cover. I think his show is repulsive.
NANCY ANN ZEBRASKEY arnegie, Pa.
Sir:
I'm happy to say that I'm a dangling Paarticiple.
ANN KRAVETZ Walnutport, Pa.
Sir:
I would like to see him on a competitive 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. TV spot, when the majority of viewers are still awake, aware, and demanding.
M. W. ARMSTRONG Wilmington, Del.
Sir:
An excellent article on the inimitable Mr. Paar.
SALLY ANN SAUNDERS San Diego
Sir:
I have finished reading your Jack Paar story and regard it as the best printed article of 1958. Of course, you had one of the country's best comedians for a subject. Your newest section--Show Business--has also won my heartiest approval. Keep up the good work.
ALEXANDER G. KAPOCIUS Chicago
Charley Horse in Defense
Sir:
I find it inconceivable, bordering on pigheadedness, that ex-Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, when making decisions affecting the national security of the U.S., "never had much to do with" Tactician and Strategist Lieut. General James Gavin.
ERNEST T. POOL Springfield. Va.
Sir:
Re your Aug. 11 review of Gavin's War and Peace in the Space Age: seems the "brains" entrusted to America's defense never listen to the truth.
It was that way with Billy Mitchell, Lindbergh and MacArthur.
PAUL LYONS The Bronx, N.Y.
Union Bosses
Sir:
Why do we spend billions of dollars fighting Khrushchev & Co. when the nation will soon be taken over by Hoffa & Co.? I don't know which of the two is worse. They both use the same methods.
IVAN TRABAL The Bronx
Nothing Like a Dame
Sir:
Cheers for the courageous action of Mrs. Marcella Norman in driving the automobile through the showcase window--the only bright spot in an otherwise troubled world. Mrs. Norman's only oversight was her failure to run down half a dozen automobile salesmen and perhaps a real estate man or two.
THOMAS R. NEWSOM Kowloon, Hong Kong
Killing with Kindness
Sir:
I read with utter horror in TIME, Aug. 11 of the inhumane slaughtering of animals. I can't understand how such horrible methods could have gone on so long in a supposedly civilized country. If humane methods will boost meat prices, let them.
H. T. PAINTER Boise, Idaho
Sir:
The U.S. Senate should send a subcommittee of sirloin lovers (New York cut) to Japan to study the local cattle-slaughtering techniques on remote farms, where the gentle beasts, with tender humaneness, are made drunk on a bucketful of shochu--crude native booze--before they are led, staggering, carefree and mooing gratefully in a what-the-hell mood, to the poleax. Gourmets attribute the superior quality of Kobe beef to this alcoholic anesthesia as much as to the sensitive Japanese habit of massaging the cattle regularly once a week, thereby marbling the fat through the steak.
RICHARD HUGHES Tokyo
Damp Dry
Sir:
If and when the repeal of Prohibition is voted in Oklahoma, I wonder whether Candidate Howard Edmondson (presupposing he has an illicit bottle stashed away somewhere) will commute the sentences of men now serving long sentences in the state's prisons for having similar tastes.
CHARLES C. CLAYTON Los Angeles
Sir:
I am confident that when the issue comes up again our good people will again vote no. We hope also to have beer outlawed some day, and it is a wonderful place to live. Why don't some of you come and join us?
MRS. TIP GRAHAM Duncan, Okla.
Sir:
An old Indian legend says: "Oklahomans will vote dry as long as they can stagger to the polls."
MILDRED CARR Bartlesville, Okla.
Family Album
Sir:
TIME, Aug 11, states that Citizen Genet married a daughter of Governor De Witt Clinton. The girl Citizen Genet married was probably a daughter of Governor George Clinton, De Witt's uncle.
FREDERICK C. PYNE (Great-Great-Grandson of De Witt Clinton) Birmingham, Mich.
Sir:
My ancestor, Citizen Genet, married Cornelia Tappan Clinton, daughter of George Clinton, first Governor of New York State. George was Governor 1777-95, while De Witt was Governor much later. For a while, De Witt served as secretary to his Uncle George.
NANCY GENET ew York City
The Bumptious Facts
Sir:
I note that the words "bumptious young Americans" are used to describe those who founded the Paris Review [Aug. 11]. If the word bumptious is to be interpreted as "offensively self-assertive," it might better be applied to those who had whatever hand in producing this particular story. The Review was founded by Harold L. Humes and Peter Matthiessen, the author of two novels and many notable short stories. The first two recruits were George A. Plimpton and Thomas H. Guinzburg.
THOMAS H. GUINZBURG New York City
Sir:
Our appreciation to TIME for devoting so much space to the small-circulation Paris Review and for recognizing the value of such magazines. Thomas H. Guinzburg, one of the Review's owners, should have been listed as a founder.
GEORGE PLIMPTON (Editor of Paris Review) Fishers Island, N.Y.
The Witnesses
Sir:
Your Aug. 11 article concerning the Jehovah's Witnesses' convention was extremely interesting. It seems that the more fantastic the dogmas a particular sect or religion has, the easier it is for them to gain converts.
KENNETH R. BENOIT Detroit
Sir:
Don't people know or care that Witnesses are not Christians?
EVERETT A. HELLMUTH JR. Hedgesville, W.Va.
Sir:
A Witness for Jehovah since 1913, it is rather difficult for me to tell whether your article was intended to be informative or possibly sarcastic. At any rate, please accept my personal thanks.
JESSE P. MONTZ Miami
Sir:
The Bible, to the Witnesses, is a wax nose which may be twisted according to their interpretation. I believe that religious freedom, as such, in America has gone too far.
MRS. JONATHAN H. HOCHSTATTER Cincinnati
Sir:
That picture showing the Witnesses' biggest baptism: Is it a baptism or a mass drowning exercise? Suicide would certainly be faster in reaching the revered kingdom without waiting for Armageddon to strike.
MICHAEL J. FIES Seattle
Sir:
By regrouping the world's dead (according to Witnesses, more than 250 billion), Pastor Russell has at last found a practical use for Texas.
LESTER DOORNHEIM San Diego
Forest Frame-Up
Sir:
I must disagree with your Aug. 4 impression of Disney's The Light in the Forest. Disney's movie proves that you can have an absence of lust, sex, underworld crimes and hideous monsters, and still have an enjoyable movie. Yet you shoot scorn at it.
KALANI DOLL Pittsburgh
Sir:
You say The Light in the Forest was taken from a 1953 novel, but you failed to say that whoever took it should have given it back.
LEWIS WILLIAMS Philadelphia
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