Rustling in Ivy

Sir: I am a senior at Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wis. Having just been turned down at two and accepted at one of the Ivy League schools, I can attest to the validity of your May 23 article on college acceptance. W. A. KNOBE JR. Beaver Dam, Wis.

Sir: The Ivy colleges are in an even more difficult spot than you pointed out. Besides needing common magic to separate the Cream from the cream, they have to perform the arcane wizardry which separates those who really want an Ivy education (of which there still aren't enough) from those who just want Ivy. LEWIS C. CADY '59 Brown University Providence, R.I.

Sir: Chop the old college tie off of the kook that is promoting this Ivy League claptrap and send him west of Pennsylvania for a few months. In this part of the country only the fainthearted who fear being turned down by Rice apply for admission to Harvard, Princeton or Yale. TOM SCOTT Amarillo, Texas

Sir: Your article quotes my father very accurately. However, his name is Louis H. Fritzemeier, not Fritz Meier. It is true, his colleagues call him Fritz, but I do not believe that TIME has the prerogative to be so familiar--you hardly know him! MARY FRITZEMEIER Lawrence, Kans.

Sir: I was most disturbed by the remarks of one frustrated applicant whom you quoted as saying that Princeton is a "party school." Loyalty to Mother Princeton and a command of the facts compel me to set the record straight. I am a junior; I carry four courses each semester. Each requires about six hours of reading preparation each week. In addition, each upperclassman at Princeton is involved in independent work for his particular department. For this I read 22 books and numerous articles in periodicals. The paper I wrote was 15,000 words long, about average for my department.

Now, as to the "party" aspect of Princeton. Because Princeton Men do know how to have a good time when they get the chance, and because this is the only aspect of a Princeton Man's life that the public sees, we frequently get the undeserved reputation for being playboys.

Princeton is one of America's toughest academic institutions, but it is also one of the most rewarding. The concept of the highest intellectual attainments tempered with the humanizing influence of the social amenities is one which the university seeks to preserve as it prepares its sons for The Nation's Service. RICHARD H. NELSON Chairman, The Princeton Tiger Princeton, N.J.

Sir: TIME reported that one Dave Hatcher said that he preferred Brown to Princeton, as he thought that Princeton is too much of a party school. We at Brown will not sit idle while aspersions are cast at our alma mater. While Brown certainly will give him a better education, it should not go unsaid that if anyone in the Ivy League throws parties, Brown throws them bigger and better. RICHARD R. WANDMACHER Providence, R.I.

Down from the Summit

Sir: Searle's May 23 cover depicts Mr. K. as a tough piece of pork, but your story reveals him as he really is--a wild bore. HELEN O'NEILL Newbridge, Ireland

Sir: You missed the opportunity of being awarded a prize for publishing what I call the best representative shot of the year at the right moment: instead of using so many words in describing what went on in Paris, you should have blown up the picture: President Eisenhower's coat buttons on the wrong side, a lefthanded Garde Republicaine, and even Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville had his hair parted on the other side for the occasion.

Was it your intention to demonstrate this way that everything went wrong at the confrontation in Paris? K. BERGEN Lisbon

P: The mirror-image of the Western Summit statesmen (see cuts) would have made sense to Alice, but it really embarrassed the Associated Press, which in haste reversed its radiophoto negative.--ED.

Sir: I cannot help but feel that Mr. K. must be an avid reader of TIME, was slighted in 1959, and is most determined to reappear on your Man of the Year cover come January 1961. C. P. CURPHEY Montreal

Sir: Since the flight of the U2, the U.S. Government is in much the same position as a wealthy unmarried patron of the church who suddenly finds herself pregnant--no one will publicly condemn her, but she won't hear the last of it for a long, long time. JOE CONOVER Seattle

Sir: In Stevenson's speech right after the failure of the summit, he seemed to place the blame on the Republican Administration when he stated that no administration of that party will be able to get anywhere in negotiations. Is our election to please the people of the U.S., or Russia? Surely, the people of the U.S. will not be naive enough to elect a President of the United States on a recommendation from Russia. EOLINE W. McLEOD Smith Center, Kans.

Sir: The U.S. has only one true statesman to deal with our friends and enemies, and this statesman is Stevenson. ELLIOTT F. PORTER Los Angeles

Sir: God deliver us from architects of appeasement such as Adlai Stevenson. WILLIAM G. COURTNEY La Mirada, Calif.

Iron Division

Sir: Your May 30 story on Marshal Malinovsky quotes him as saying that after the Bolshevik revolution stranded his Russian division in France, "Our camp was encircled by Allied troops. The French tried to pacify us with artillery fire." Even from a Bolshevik, this is gamy fiction.

By chance, a number of us Americans serving in the French air force in World War I were at the aerial-gunnery school at Cazeaux, below Bordeaux, around Christmas 1917. A few miles away was the Russian internment camp of Le Courneau. This "Iron Division" became hostile, and dug trenches in their camp. To be on guard against mass gatherings or outbreaks, we student pilots at Cazeaux were sent on patrol over Le Courneau by day to report any signs of open trouble. No shots were fired.

There was no "artillery fire," no "encirclement." We flew low enough over the Russian warren to see their poor fellows wallowing like prairie dogs in the frozen ground or thawing mud. Far from trying to "pacify" these exiles, the French felt sorry for them. GEORGE DOCK JR. New York City

Koughless Koncerts

Sir: Re your May 23 article on Milton Katims, Seattle Symphony Orchestra conductor: the enthusiasm of our educated, dedicated, 4,400 strong season ticket holders is the most important part of our symphony picture. One doesn't even hear a cough when our symphony plays its regular series. Truth, however, compels me to add that a few of the less musically initiated have perhaps been transported into a euphoric state by a gift of Katims' Koncert Kough Drops--available in the lobby of our concert hall before each performance. J. HANS LEHMANN, M.D. Member Seattle Symphony Board Seattle

The Ungreasy Porpoise

Sir: Read your May 23 article on the Frank Sinatra Timex Show and agreed with every word. All I've heard since Elvis Presley came home from Germany is how he's bigger than ever. All I can say is that when they had one of his movies here last week most of the teen-agers sat and laughed. I am, by the way, 17 years old and I laughed too. CAROL BRISCOE Wenatchee, Wash.

Sir: You are so prejudiced against Elvis Presley. I am over 40 but wouldn't want to live to be as old as you must be. MRS. KENNETH MEYER Los Angeles

P:We're 37, plus a few issues.--ED.

Sir: The commercial for the Frank Sinatra Timex Show was taped at Marine Studios, Marineland, Fla. and not Miami Beach as stated in your magazine. Our porpoises are educated and well-behaved and, furthermore, not at all greasy. ANDRE COWAN St. Augustine, Fla. Trainer

The Teacher

Sir: The day before I received TIME this week, I was listening to old South High (Denver) grad, Gene Amole, reading a copy over his radio station, KDEN. I was deeply moved to hear the May 23 story about South's creative-writing and English teacher, Harold Keables. Your description was so lifelike that I felt myself transported back over 13 years. His teaching has instilled a lifelong self-criticism of every word I write with the exception of my grocery list. I am torn between adding to the well-deserved tributes you will surely receive from Mr. Keables' former students and the fear that this letter will be published containing some terrible grammatical error. WILLA BEE ROBBINS HOLMES ('47) Aurora, Colo.

Christ and Apollo

Sir: I write to thank TIME for the fine review of my book Christ and Apollo that appeared in the May 23 issue. Naturally my friends were happy about the review (as I was), and there have been many who remarked on the competence, the taste and the ability of the reviewer. WILLIAM F. LYNCH, S. J. Washington

Sir: Jesuit William Lynch in his book Christ and Apollo illustrates the perpetual tug of war within Christianity between the Old Testament and the New. When he stresses the importance of facing up to the world --reaching the infinite through the finite--he is following the message of the prophets of Israel to whom justice on earth was the way of God. When he derides "do-it-yourself" salvation, however, he is grinding the theological ax of faith v. works, which marks the dividing point between Judaism and Christianity.

For the former, society, law, the human body and the world, are all prerequisites to salvation--with the grace of God serving as background and goal. For the latter, grace becomes a short cut to salvation, circumventing law, social justice and works. For Christianity, the Kingdom is around the corner. For Judaism, the Kingdom is in the "end of days."

In the interim, Judaism believes in taking one world at a time. RABBI JACOB CHINITZ Philadelphia

Hum? Ho

Sir: I am familiar with Hilda Hyams' "hum" down to the last mmm. But it seems it is not peculiar to "the drowsy county of Kent" in England [May 23]. We live within "humming" distance of the berth-place of the atomic submarines and I have taken for granted the nocturnal hummings in the area for six years.

I was pleased, however, to know that the hum is universal and not just a product of my New England neighborhood. Misery loves company. MRS. ROBERT ZABARSKY New London, Conn.

Always TIME Like the Present

SIR:

THERE WILL NEVER BE A BETTER TIME THAN THE PRESENT FOR YOU TO TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE FULL STORY OF THE SITUATION IN THE U. S. TODAY. JOHN F. ENGELKE EVANSTON, ILL.

P: Just keep subscribing.--ED.

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