The Chauffeur Sir:

Thank you for the enormously kind way you described my ride at the Washington horse show [Nov.'3]. Actually it was a very nice horse, and if he'd had any kind of a chauffeur up on him at all, he'd have done pretty well. Anyway, Bobby says if I can be referred to as the onetime scourge of the equestrian East, give him five more years and he'll be All-American.

ETHEL KENNEDY McLean, Va.

City Planning Sir:

Bravo to Mrs. Jacobs for bringing to light the truth about "slum areas" and housing developments [Nov. 10]. For one who has lived in the Back Bay area of Boston and who is now living in the "never-never" land of married student housing, I welcome Mrs. Jacobs' arguments with open arms. How 1 would love to once again dodge people, taxis and cigarette butts for a "corn beef on rye" in a cozy basement delicatessen. Until such a time I only pray that the city planners are sentenced to live in the bleak "hells" called housing projects.

KAREN WILLARD Ann Arbor, Mich.

Sir:

Critic Jacobs is reminiscent of a middle-aged woman calling to mind the numerous penny sweets of her childhood; the higher-priced candy of today is better, but the sugars remembered are best. The development areas of today give the second-class citizen a better chance to succeed in the modern world, which is based on respectability. Congratulation, not reproach, is in order for the men responsible.

JAMES A. MCKENNA III Chevy Chase, Md.

Sir:

Anti-Planner Jacobs is capitalizing on common dissatisfactions via malicious attacks. Professional planners, who are thoroughly trained in the social and behavioral sciences, share her concern. Most of Jacobs' slanted facts are correct, but her whipping boy-should be the quacks, who parade as public or private planners because they have funds to invest or can bend over a drawing board.

Portions of our cities are poorly planned because sterile architects and second-rate engineers are filling voids caused by the serious shortage of professional planners.

PETER H. NASH Cincinnati

The Three Keeps

Sir:

Mary Bunting convinced me. With two children and good prospects for a third. I accepted a tutoring position the morning after reading TIME'S cover story [Nov. 3].

Thanks for the push !

MARLVS A. PETERSON Minnesota '56 Sheboygan, Wis.

Sir:

"Amen" to Mrs. Bunting!

American women who fail to appreciate their respected role in society ought to be shipped off to Australia to observe women here in the role of the "three keeps": keep the house clean, keep husband happy, and keep quiet.

MARY CHARLOTTE BAYLES Canberra, Australia

Sir:

I have three daughters of my own, as well as three sons, and am most interested in education, especially for girls. The attitude of so many mothers that it is only necessary to provide further education for their sons incenses me. In this land of freedom it seems morally wrong on the part of some parents to deny girls the freedom of education. The girl who marries, and does not then use her education to earn her living still lives a far richer life, is a more effective mother, and a more capable helpmate for her husband.

MRS. GEORGE WATERS Winnipeg, Man.

Sir:

I want to thank you for the TIME story, which I found both helpful and essentially accurate. I certainly appreciate the real effort which was made to present a true and also a friendly picture.

MRS. MARY I. BUNTING President Radcliffe College Cambridge, Mass.

Sir:

No woman, especially a mother of bright teenagers, can afford to be only a dedicated mother, homemaker and wife. I happen to be a widow, and unless I supplement my income, my children could not even finish school. My children expect me to know a lot of answers; they expect me to talk to their teachers intelligently; they constantly challenge my knowledge, not only of the past but of the present. Today I feel that I am also a person in my own right because I try to keep a step ahead of my children.

ELISABETH MACKAY Ancram, N. Y.

Sir:

I must say that your article on Mrs. Bunting was interesting. It was also frightening to a young male in college. The fact that they (the young females) go to college to find future husbands has amused me, and previously I have been content with that concept. "Now Mrs. Bunting has lit a fire under me. I must now work so that I may remain superior to the now "expectant" female who is to be my future mate. Fat chance, thanks to Mrs. Bunting.

RAY A. SMART '65 Montana State College Bozeman, Mont.

Minutemen

Sir:

The Minutemen [Nov. 3] connote a creepy sensation. Thoughts of these persons roaming the countryside instill as great a dread as enemy invasion. There would be bloodshed among our own, for who would submit to these lawless bands, which are a natural recess for enemy agents and crackpots? History is replete with the dreadful accounts of predatory irregulars.

H. E. TITUS La Mesa, Calif.

Sir:

Bravo for DePugh and his guerrillas!

In a brief address recently to a group of fellow students at the Army's Command and General Staff College, I proposed the establishment of a national guerrilla force under U.S. Army auspices. I thought that I had come up with something original. It is most gratifying to learn that our citizenry still has the foresight to see a grim possibility and then to do something about it.

However, to be effective, guerrillas must be formally recognized as an instrument of the national armed forces. The only thing that distinguishes a guerrilla force from a band of brigands is national legal recognition.

WILLIAM A. FORBES Major, U.S.A. Springfield, Va.

Any Doctors Here?

Sir:

I cannot help shuddering to think what our country would be after 20 years of an educational system such as the one advocated by Mr. Reiner [Nov. 10].

If we go back to this nonsense, there is no doubt in my mind that Russian children will be exploring the moon while Mr. Reiner's children continue to explore Mount Baldy.

EUGENE S. BUINO Chicago

Sir:

Reiner's "special school" depicts a new low in education. The Midtown "Disneyland" is not a school: it is an excuse for people who want to learn by the made-simple method. It is an example of the chaos and purposelessness that permeates education today.

The bohemian life is great, but it does not show a student how to become a doctor, lawyer, technician or skilled worker--the kind of person we need to run our complex society in these troubled times.

RICHARD R. CHARTIER Redlands, Calif.

Sir:

Because my son Tom has progressed rapidly since his enrollment at Midtown School of Hollywood, I question the accuracy of your article.

Both Mr. Perley and I, frequent visitors to the school, have seen no nudes cavorting, no throwing of food or sand, no emphasis on apple peeling.

On the contrary, the intelligent, modern methods through which the curriculum is established and carried out are enthusiastically applauded by--

BEVERLY PERLEY Los Angeles

Kiss & Recognition

Sir:

Thanks, TIME, for making my wish come-true with that beautiful reproduction of Osculum Silence by Jules Olitski, second prizewinner in painting now being seen at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition [Nov. 3]. When I saw that big, throbbing painting on the opening night of the exhibition, I thought to myself, "How I'd like to have a good reproduction of that!" So once again I am grateful to TIME and to its ART section.

ELIZABETH FROST REED Morgantown, W. Va.

Sir:

THAT'S A Kiss? Poor Mr. Olitski!

BETTE F. JACKSON San Antonio

Sir

Six months ago, I selected the duplicate of Mark Tobey's untitled abstraction for my new kitchen linoleum.

Now, since reading your art critic's review, I can survey my floor each day and feel it "become a' battleground of forces whose struggles extend into realms the eye cannot even see."

ELEANOR S. WILKIN Olean, N. Y.

Sir:

In your reporting of the award to Mark Tobey of the 1961 Carnegie Prize for painting, you neglected to mention that just the week previously the Musee des Arts Decoratifs at the Louvre had opened a magnificent retrospective show of Tobey's work, covering almost 300 paintings from 1917 to 1961.

He is the first American painter to be given a large show at the Louvre since Whistler, and one of the few living artists of any nationality to be so honored.

ARTHUR L. DAHL Pebble Beach, Calif.

> Abstractionist Tobey is the first American to have a one man show at the Louvre. Whistler's triumph in 1905 took place at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.

Baton Twirlers

Sir:

TIME articles have rarely stirred me so deeply as did your article on the so-called "Nymphettes" [Nov. 3].

If I sound wearied, that is good. I am. But I am also angered. I find it discouraging to read: "Many colleges even give scholarships to talented twirlers." If I and thousands of other kids across the country must compete for scholarships with Pepsodent-smiling, hitch-kicking, dimple-kneed baton twirlers, then maybe I should shave my legs and armpits, put a wiggle in my step and a curve in my blouse, and spend my afternoons twirling a baton.

KEVIN J. MCCARTHY ('62) San Gabriel, Calif.

Sir:

Through the efforts of devoted teachers such as Mrs. Connie Atwater of Yokota Air Base, Japan, baton twirling has also gone international! In the past year Mrs. Atwater has organized a Baton Drill Team, the "Jetettes," with 18 members, which performs at both American and Japanese functions. As a gesture of good will, she is now also instructing Japanese policewomen, who will twirl with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Band. Baton twirling is just another contribution by American service families to their foreign hosts.

LESLIE GARRETT APO 328 San Francisco

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