Expendable Eight

Sir: Hurrah for TIME ! Your list of the nation's eight worst Senators [TIME, March 20] shows careful and impartial study, and its publication is a public service of the first order . . . BENJAMIN H. KIZER Spokane, Wash.

Sir:

As a Wisconsinite, I wish to thank you for limiting your list of the Senate's most expendable to eight. We must have just skinned past.

JEAN G. LINTON Prairie du Sac, Wis.

Sir:

. . . Your selections were above criticism and beyond reproach. However, I'd like to nominate Senator Joe McCarthy as acting waterboy for this outstanding octet.

WILLIAM D. WATKINS Philadelphia, Pa.

Sir:

Brotherrrr! I never thought that I would ever agree with you completely on any matter. But your article certainly hit the nail on the head. May I add a couple--Senators James 'O. Eastland (Miss.) and John W. Bricker (Ohio)--who certainly would feel at home among your octet of mediocrity? You would do well to make a similar selection from the House. It would be very interesting to see who deserves to be placed in a category with Representatives John Rankin, Vito Marcantonio and Clarence Brown.

H. G. JONES Nashville, Tenn.

Sir: . . . 450 MEMBERS OF THE SPOKANE CHAPTER OF PRO AMERICA BITTERLY RESENT YOUR INCLUSION OF REPUBLICAN SENATOR HARRY P. CAIN, OUR PATRIOTIC, HARD-WORKING AND INTELLIGENT JUNIOR SENATOR. YOU MIGHT HAVE NAMED OUR DEMOCRATIC SENATOR WARREN G. MAGNUSON, WHO HAS BEEN ABSENT FROM SENATE DELIBERATIONS HALF OF THE TIME . . .

MRS. W. W. LOCKWOOD President Spokane, Wash.

Sir: Your timely description of Senator Harry ("Pusillanimous") Cain is both apt and accurate. Our state owes the nation an apology for sending him to Washington . . . ORA I. BECKSTEAD Walla Walla, Wash.

Sir: . . . Your magazine's contempt for the intelligence of our national elective body becomes increasingly apparent . . .

CHARLES WIGGINS 3RD Framingham Center, Mass.

Sir: TIME usually takes a feather duster to the Republicans, but a meat cleaver to the Democrats . . . Refreshing, therefore, to read "The Senate's Most Expendable," which seemed impartial and fair . . .

ODIN TONESS Detroit, Mich.

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Sir: Shouldn't Ausserordentlichhochgeschwin-digkeitelectronenentwickelndesschwerab eits-beigollitron [TIME, March 13] read Ausser-ordentlichhochgeschwindigkeitelectron enent-wickelndesschwerarbeitsbeigollitron?

(Rev.) T. M. HESBURGH, C.S.C. Notre Dame, Ind.

P: Yes, as TIME'S Los Angeles and Philadelphia (but not Chicago) printers had it.--ED.

Tartans for Dinner . Sir: Though Savile Row may have been "swallowing hard" at the time you reported "King George got two new tartan dinner jackets, was wearing them at informal parties" [TIME, March 6], I am pleased to report, as an eye witness, that at least one representative of Savile Row . . . has dried its tears, stilled its quivering nether lip, and now is boldly displaying two tartan dinner jackets in its window . . .

The jackets displaced, one single-breasted and one double-breasted, are, as I have heard the word used amongst the quorums of Eighth Avenue & 34th Street, a bit noisy; but to a people who are used to seeing the same juxtapositions of line and color in kilts, the adjustment to this aberration from Edwardian severity shouldn't be a difficult one.

If I may hazard a prediction, this garment should become a "must," especially among . . . Hollywood producers earning less than $1,500 per week . . . HARRY HESS

Gerrards Cross, Bucks, England P: To date, the Long Island horse & hound set has supplied the principal U.S. demand.--ED.

Small Game Sir: Deplorable, unChristian, the device of a singularly small mind: "Square 49" [TIME, March 20] made me see RED . . . Not only am I Roman Catholic, I am studying for the priesthood; and that business of the new "game" in Naples inspires me with naught but shame and disgust that one of the Church's servants should so distort the spirit of the Holy Year (any year, for that matter) with so grotesque an exhibition of bigotry . . . Jesuit Inventor Sergio de Gioia does little, if anything, to enhance his Roman collar. I think he disgraces it. WILLIAM FAHEY Seminary of Philosophy Montreal, Canada

Sir: I would like to suggest a change in the rules for the new game invented by Father de Gioia. As a Lutheran, it seems to me that it would be more logical to have the player who stops on square 49 discontinue his trip to the "Holy Father" . . . Every Protestant knows that Christ lives in the heart of the believer and not in the Vatican. DOROTHY M. COHEA Waterloo, Iowa

Coke on the Kiosks Sir: Cheers for that tasty epic, "The Pause That Arouses" [TIME, March 13]. At least five Frenchmen can laugh down the squeaks of those Moscow-suckled shoats against "Bottled American Imperialism." Coca-Cola won their approval on its own grounds! GUY DESSAULLES Pans, France

Sir: Doesn't the mental picture of Paris plastered with wall-sized Coca-Cola signs, its kiosks enveloped in outsized bottle tops, make you shudder . . . ? Is there any reason why a Frenchman, who objects to seeing his own language bastardized (Buvez Coca-Cola) at every turn of a corner, should be accused of "smugness" . . .? Would we miss an opportunity to protest loudly if signs advising "Drink of Champagne French" suddenly appeared on our horizon?

The protests of the average Frenchman are against the method of advertising, rather than the beverage itself. Let Mr. Farley sell Coca-Cola quietly, if he can, and [let] the Communists and winegrowers fight on.

JEANNE LEEBAERT Westport, Conn.

Sir: . . . Best and simplest reasons for France's sniffy reception of Coca-Cola are: 1) wine in France is cheaper . . . and is a long-ingrained national habit; 2) no Frenchman likes to be strong-armed into things, not even by the U.S. State Department . . .

DAN TUCKER Chicago, 111.

Sir: Our good friends the French certainly reached a high point in silliness when they outlawed the sale of Coca-Cola in their land. (Poor innocents, they don't seem to realize they're up against American salesmanship.)

But that point can hardly be compared with the pinnacle attained by James A. Farley ... when he attempted to imply that Coca-Cola had a lot to do with winning of the recent war . . . For the record, I don't recall seeing any Coke bottles in the hip pockets of soldiers going in on Omaha Beach. Perhaps this is going to surprise Mr. Farley, but as near as I can remember, the first Coke our outfit saw reached us somewhere in the Rhineland . . . I do remember wondering then what lamebrain philosophy was responsible for burdening our transport with bottled Coke at such a time . . .

ARDEN BENTHIEN Bellingham, Wash.

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