Man of the Year

Sir:

I bet it will be Nasser.

EDDY A. SALVO Los Angeles

Sir:

He must be no other than President Sukarno of the Republic of Indonesia.

ARIFIN BEY Jamaica, N.Y.

Sir:

Ike.

JULIUS M. WESTHEIMER Baltimore

The H-Bomb

Sir:

Adlai's proposal matches Ike's "I will go to SCorea" of 1952. Stevenson will be hailed by people all over the world.

LEWIS A. LINCOLN Denver

Sir:

Adlai Stevenson, by insisting on making a primary issue of stopping the H-bomb tests and eliminating the draft, is playing the Russians' game. Any time Moscow agrees with any of our policies, they cannot be beneficial to us.

ERNEST GARDOS Sebring, Fla.

Sir:

I'll bet that Stevenson's grinning picture now hangs next to B. & K.'s in Russian homes.

ROBERT FERRET Colomba, Guatemala

Prima Donna

Sir:

Instead of presenting Maria Callas [Oct. 29] as a true diva--one who is generous, dignified and kind--you only succeed in impressing me that she is an overindulged, selfish, unforgiving egocentric.

MARIE GRACE Cleveland

Sir:

Your story on callous Callas was something. But your Koerner cover was something better. More of his covers please.

ROSE D. ROMAN Bellingham, Mass.

Sir:

The controversial Mme. C. doubtless has earned her news space, but in this year of the Callas Met debut, may one respectfully request equal time for several other singers whose careers are based on their beautiful voices? Such artists have come by their fame the only way an operatic artist should--by their voices and not by their tantrums or their psychotic revenge drives.

JOHN FISHER Quincy, Mass.

Brain Bashing

Sir:

The art of biocontrol--turning men into robots [TIME, Oct. 15]--as expounded by Engineer Curtiss Schafer is the most chilling scientific vision in many a year. For man to be enslaved by electrical processes, his spirit and genius and upward thrust mechanically coerced and molded to the will of a malignant Grand Inquisitor--this is the final madness.

(THE REV.) JOHN W. CRANDALL Wells Memorial Presbyterian Church Brooklyn

Sir:

Perhaps, monetarily speaking, a Westinghouse robot does cost more than a child. Our last baby cost me months of illness and $1,500. How do I stack up with Westinghouse production?

MARY H. ARCHER Melbourne, Fla.

Portrait of Christ

Sir:

Contrast the picture of courageous Bishop Ordass shown in your Oct. 22 Religion section with the pictures of Christ. I'll wager the true Christ looked more like Bishop Ordass and the Middle Ages' conception of Christ than the silly, grinning, effeminate, puffy-cheeked companion by Painter Ivan Pusecker.

(THE REV.) CARL KISSLING First United Presbyterian Church Denver

Negroes in the News

Sir:

Your Oct. 29 article on Negroes in the U.S. press contains a misleading quotation, attributed to me, with reference to the use of "Negro" in Denver Post stories. We made no reference to Negroes being involved in the Aug. 24 A.P. story from Wuerzburg about the sentencing of seven American soldiers for rape; but in a Washington wire story of the same date, quoting Representative Powell's letter from Europe that the "racial situation [there] is extremely bad," we did leave in the sentence: "All seven are Negroes." Since the story hinged upon Representative Powell's references to "racial tension," the identification of defendants as Negroes was essential to the whole story's meaning.

The Denver Post's rule requires that identification by race be made only under circumstances such as above. Only then do we feel that we "owe it to our readers'' to make such identifications.

MORT STERN Managing Editor The Denver Post Denver

Sir:

Your article reported that the New York Journal-American had gone to the absurd extreme of describing a wanted kidnaper in close detail without mentioning that she was a Negro. Your comment evidently inspired contrition at the Journal-American, whose Managing Editor Sam H. Day was big enough to write a column admitting that his paper had erred. He wrote:

"... Reporters and rewrite men have been told that it is unnecessary to say that a person is a Negro in a story involving crime, unless the use of a full description is a necessary part of the story. It is considered essential when it is desired to describe a fugitive. But . . . we make mistakes.

''The reporter [in the recent case] was mindful of instructions, and included a complete police description of the suspected kidnaper, including the fact that she was a Negro. Unfortunately, the word Negro caught the eye of a responsible editor as he glanced through a proof. He reacted automatically, deleted the offending word ... He was wrong, but there was no harm done, and who can criticize a fellow for trying to spare someone possible pain? We have also erred in using the word Negro when it was unnecessary.

"We are not alone in this policy of not identifying Negroes involved in misdeeds. Most northern newspapers act similarly. This has led our editor friends in the South to accuse us of suppressing news. We plead guilty, with extenuation . . . Economic barriers which keep many [Negroes] unemployed help contribute to acts of petty thievery from which criminal statistics are made. We don't see how emphasis on their misdeeds will help these people, or hasten their adjustment to city life. . ."

JOSEPH J. McCoY Peekskill, N.Y.

What Are Protestants?

Sir:

Being a student of religions, I appreciated your Oct. 15 map of Protestants and Roman Catholics in the U.S. It was instructive yet confusing--instructive, because it shows that Protestantism is prominent in the South, where the unchristian racial hatred is highest. Confusing, because I wonder if the National Council of Churches includes in its Protestant percentages the "technical" Protestants, as Episcopalians, etc., and the "statistical" Protestants, as Christian Scientists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventists, Swedenborgians, Unitarians, etc.

G. BAROIS La Breille, France

Sir:

Before classifying Utah as a predominantly Protestant state, wouldn't it be wise for the National Council of Churches to ask the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints if it is Protestant or not? Utah could just as well be classified as Catholic as Protestant since we resemble that religion as much as the other. Actually we are neither and would just as leave not have either classification forced upon us.

H. J. DAVIDSON, M.D. Manti, Utah

P: The Council's research experts counted as Protestants a number of church bodies which do not themselves accept the term, including Mormons and a dozen or so minor sect groups. Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Scientists and Swedenborgians are not included in the survey.--ED.

Gung Home

Sir:

TIME'S Oct. 29 story on the marine wives in Japan is confusing in its reference to dependents who had come to Japan on long-term visas. In not allowing marines to bring their families to Japan and Okinawa at Government expense (although the other U.S. military services here provide travel and housing for dependents), the Marine Corps said: "The commandant does not consider the military situation appropriate to permit dependents to accompany, or later join overseas, members of Fleet Marine Force units assigned to the Far East." A number of marines here have interpreted this as not expressly forbidding bringing wives and children to Japan, if done at their own expense. In some cases, "specified" visas have been issued by Japanese consulates specifying that [marines' families] are entering Japan as dependents. It is these dependents that the Corps is now trying to get to go home. Unfortunately for the Corps' contention that the military situation is the controlling factor, the no-dependents policy does not (and cannot) apply to marines who have married Japanese wives after they got here.

CURTIS PRENDERGAST Tokyo

Sir:

Haven't you heard? The Old Corps-New Corps issue is obsolete. Now its BP (Before Pate) and AP (After Pate).

JAMES W. TOUMEY Cambridge, Mass.

Hot Under the Color

Sir:

The TIME staffer who wrote the Oct. 22 color TV article "Faded Rainbow" should be sentenced to black and white for the rest of his misinformed life.

ALAN STEINERT Cambridge, Mass.

Sir:

TIME'S assertion that color TV is an industrial flop is untrue. TIME chooses to feature anti-color TV statements by the presidents of two of RCA s biggest competitors, whose companies achieved their first success in black-and-white TV years after RCA's David Sarnoff pioneered in that field, and then only by using inventions made by RCA's famed scientists and engineers. TIME'S article opened with the loaded question, "What's wrong with color TV?" You then proceeded to answer the question with disparaging propaganda spread by those who would hold back color television.

ROBERT L. WERNER Vice President Radio Corp. of America New York City

Sir:

I for one am not a bit surprised that color TV's a "resounding flop.'' G.E. President Ralph J. Cordiner is right, and the trouble is that the system now in use is much too complex, too fussy as to its internal adjustments. In effect, it is a magnificent laboratory toy, utterly out of place in an Ordinary home.

KERRY GAULDER Burlington, Ont.

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