Ideologies
Sir:
. . . Thanks for your discussion of "Ideologies" [TIME, April 17]. You have stated the issues involved lucidly and incisively . . .
Our danger lies not so much in Communist threats but in Americans who think like Communists and don't seem to know it ...
As one who served on the policy staff of German Military Government, I assure you this needs to be understood in high and low places.
HERBERT C. MAYER
New York City
Sir:
Your piece on Ideologies is a masterpiece of propaganda. Goebbels could be proud of such subtle twisting of facts . . .
WALTER J. LEHMANN
St. Louis, Mo.
Sir:
Writing of Owen Lattimore, you say: "Those ideas did not constitute a crime, and they did not constitute disloyalty." The hell they didn't! . . .
Any American who furthers any policy which, in the long pull, will deprive America of any asset without at least a balancing benefit is disloyal . . . Disloyalty can as well be the product of omission as an overt act . . .
PAUL GALLAGHER, M.D.
El Paso, Texas
Sir:
I feel I should thank you for your article on Ideologies. For months I have intended to stop reading TIME, but the habit was strong
. . . This article is most convincing. So much so that three friends within our circle have also decided that they have spent their last 20-c- for TIME . . .
ROBERTA R. SPOHN
New York City
Deceptive Description
Sir:
Read your article on Charlie Binaggio and my eyes opened widely at your description: "He looked deceptively like a mild and prosperous chiropodist [TIME, April 17].
As a member of the profession, I was amused, amazed and curious in that order . . .
DR. SIDNEY SIVITZ
Lewistown, Pa.
Sir:
. . . My husband is a chiropodist, and I am anxious to have an opinion of how he should look, so we can take steps to have him look his part.
(MRS.) MAX BRONDE
Dallas, Texas
Sir:
I think that Binaggio looks like a "mild and prosperous" TIME editor.
DR. GEORGE DAVIS
Chiropodist Memphis, Tenn.
Brief Encounter
Sir:
. . . In your April 17 Miscellany column you have an item: "SALESMANSHIP. In Columbus, Ohio, Magazine Salesman Daniel Soloff, who chased a young housewife from room to room, explained to police: 'It was just in fun.'"
You leave your readers hanging up to dry. What we want to know is: DID he catch her?
TOM LENNON
Beverly Hills, Calif.
P: No; all he caught was a telephone book on his head and, subsequently, a $200 fine and a sentence of 180 days in jail.--ED.
Rejection Slip
Sir:
The April 17 TIME says: "Last year, with the memory of Amber's sales still green in her publisher's bank account, Kathleen [Winsor] asked a whopping $50,000 advance for her second novel, Star Money. The publisher (Macmillan) regretfully declined."
We here at Macmillan find this misleading, the implication being that we regretfully declined the book because we were asked to pay a $50,000 advance. The question of royalty terms and advances was never discussed with us and had no bearing on our declining the book.
GEORGE P. BRETT JR.
New York City
P: TIME'S source was obviously wrong. --ED.
Ingredients for Living
Sir:
Congratulations on your April 17 Rickenbacker cover story. It has come at a most significant time: a time when young men seem to be devoid of Rickenbacker's spirit of individualism and industry . . .
LEO J. KEEFE JR.
Washington, D.C.
. . .Where else but in America can individuals like Eddie Rickenbacker find the opportunity to better their fellow men by utilizing their own capacities and abilities? . . . It is highly reassuring, after hearing the continual whining complaints of the "social planners" and the advocates of planned living, to find that determination, fortitude,, and a will to succeed are still good ingredients for living . . .
DONALD JOHN GIESE
St. Paul, Minn.
Sir:
. . . You state that the Rickenbacker automobile was the only one equipped with four-wheel brakes (during its period of production). This is incorrect. The 1921 straight-eight Duesenberg was equipped with "simultaneously acting four-wheel brakes, controlled by a single pedal." Note also that these were hydraulic, not mechanical, brakes.
This car was shown at the Chicago Salon in 1921, thus clearly preceding the Rickenbacker . . .
RICHARD A. FREEDMAN
Buffalo, N.Y.
P: The Four Wheel Hydraulic Brake Corp. was organized in 1920 at Detroit. Duesenberg was the first licensee to use this company's design for hydraulic control of external braking bands.--ED.
Emphasis on Enzyme
Sir:
In your issue of April 10 you reported the announcement by Mrs. Rosalie Reynolds that she had found large amounts of hyaluronidase in malignant tumors from mice, whereupon it was suggested that the enzyme may be a factor in causing the "explosive growth of cancer cells." Since hyaluronidase is widely used in many hospitals, in some cases as a life-saving measure to increase the speed of absorption of nutritional solutions, anesthetics and antibiotics, I feel compelled to emphasize that intensive investigation during the last few years . . . has exonerated hyaluronidase, experimentally administered, as a promoter of cancer growth. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the injection of enormous amounts of hyaluronidase into cancer-bearing animals, or even into the cancerous tumor itself, has no effect on the cancerous process whatsoever . . .
F. DURAN-REYNALS, M.D. Yale University
New Haven, Conn.
P: Dr. Duran-Reynals is right--but he is talking about hyaluronidase injected into the body, and TIME'S report was on hyaluronidase created by the body itself.--ED.
Way Up in the Middle of the Air
Sir:
. . . Re your article "Saucer-Eyed Dragons" [TIME, April 17]: It seems to me that you are just another magazine that is afraid to be different. You call the flying saucers "fantastic." When is the world going to realize that nothing can be fantastic in this age we live in? ... Let's stop fooling ourselves. Your magazine has no more right to say the flying saucers are fantastic than I have to say they are real, but at least it's better to be prepared than surprised!
HAROLD P. FLEIG
Evanston, Ill.
Sir:
It occurred to me while reading your article that all of this hubbub about flying saucers started a long time ago. Didn't the Bible record that Ezekiel saw the wheel--way up in the middle of the air . . .?
GEORGE S. GREENE JR.
Philadelphia, Pa.
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