Scribes & Scrolls

Sir: A brilliant job by your scribes in bringing vibrant life to the Dead Sea Scrolls.

WALLACE CEDARLEAF Minister Chaffin Congregational Church Holden, Mass.

Sir: Thanks to you and your excellent staff for your April 15 article; it was delightful as well as informative. It is truly a masterpiece of religious reportage.

CURT MILLER

Whitewater, Wis.

Sir: Your article points up the ludicrous belief of the average individual who claims to be a Bible scholar. The experienced, professional scholars are still changing their thinking 20 centuries after the death of Christ. Perhaps we can look forward to new findings in the 40th century.

WILLIAM A. WHALEN West Albany, N.Y.

Ike v. the Press

Sir:

Thanks to TIME [April 8] for the "Case of the Budget" and for helping John Q. Public to maintain a proper perspective of a great man who holds a great office. Moreover, the Herblock helicopter reproduced--which implied a President sublimely aloof to relevant issues--is effectively grounded by TIME'S down-to-earth reporting.

A. F. BALLBACH JR.

Minister

First Baptist Church Oneonta, N.Y.

Sir:

Challenging Eisenhower's patience, a journalist dared ask him a provocative question re helicopters and golf. The inquisitor got a cold but polite answer. It would be good to prevent that fellow from participating in these press conferences--at least to persuade him to stop asking questions below the level of dignified journalism.

B. A. RZESZOTARSKI Wilmington, Del.

What Randolph Said

Sir:

You state in your April 1 Press section, in the course of a friendly and otherwise accurate reference to my book, What I Said About the Press, that there were "few magazine comments on the book." Reviews have been published in Truth, the Spectator, the Listener, the New Statesman and Nation, Tribune, Time &Tide, Candour, the Economist and the Times Literary Supplement.

RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL

Chairman

Country Bumpkins Ltd.* East Bergholt, Suffolk, England.

Images of Nasser

Sir:

TIME [April 1] is quite correct in stating that "Western badgering and blustering is apt only to enhance the fanatic image of Nasser as champion of the Arabs." The U.S. policy of talking softly but cutting off Egypt's dollar income is much better than Britain's overexcited, frustrated yelps of outrage toward Egypt and the U.S.

HANNO WEISBROD Hollywood

Sir:

Your magazine is full of distortions and prejudices against President Nasser. He is the hero of all the Arabs, and your name-calling is antagonizing them. Do not blame them if they turn to Russia for friendship.

GHAZI KHANKAN Los Angeles

Sir:

It is hard to understand why we have treated Nasser so gently. He ought to pay the entire cost of clearing the canal.

LOUISE KAUTZ

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

The letters published in your April 1 issue, from readers who attack Ben-Gurion and Israel, are miserable. I'm not a Jew, but I know something about the Jews and what they have suffered, especially during the Nazi period. How can anybody in full possession of his faculties blame the Israelis for defending themselves against new dictators like Nasser, feudal Arab sheiks and oil kings?

W. P. MEYER JR.

Utrecht, Holland

Well-Dressed Latin

Sir:

Your April 8 review of Rolfe Humphries' translation of The Art of Love was also a description of the translator. The modern Mr. Humphries, my Latin teacher at Woodmere Academy until his departure, used to explain Caesar's military escapades in terms of machine guns, mortars and armored tanks. It was no surprise that Ovid's women be dressed by Dior.

JUDD KAHN

Lawrence, N.Y.

Sir:

Thank you for the review of my Ovid translation; it was a splendid notice.

ROLFE HUMPHRIES New York City

Beck's Face

Sir:

I am surprised and chagrined to find the repulsive physiognomy of Dave Beck adorning the cover of your (until now) highly respected publication. Recently, you "honored" that international bandit Nasser, and now you have really touched bottom in the April 8 issue.

CALVIN W. MOORE

Maplewood, NJ.

Sir:

Note physiognomical resemblance of Boss Beck as shown in your cover and Napoleon in the cinema version of Orwell's Animal Farm.

MICHAEL O'N. JOHNSTON San Francisco P:Noted (see cuts).--ED.

Sir; Artist Chaliapin rarely overlooks details, in the April 8 cover he left out an item: an apple in the mouth.

A. FISHELLE Nuevo, Calif.

Sir:

That pudgy face bears an uncanny similarity to another political tyrant who would supposingly benefit the great mass of people --Nikita Khrushchev.

JOHN COBLE Laurinburg, N.C.

Sir:

You have reached an alltime low with a picture of the most obnoxious traitor (Dave Beck) in the history of union labor. I am a member of two labor unions and thankful that they are not paying tribute to anyone the caliber of Beck.

H. J. LEWIS Painesville, Ohio

Sir:

I completely detest Dave Beck's using the Fifth Amendment. However, I would rather see 100 money-mad union leaders get away with it rather than one teacher, entertainer or newspaperman scoff in the same manner when it concerns Communism.

EDWARD CLARKE

The Bronx, N.Y.

Sir:

I nominate Beck for the Man of the Year. He has served as a perfect example to union laborers by showing them where their weekly dues end up. I only hope that the Senate investigators continue to probe into the union bosses and rout out the undesirables, silk shirts and all.

JAMES P. HYATT

Garden City, N.Y.

Teaching the Teachers

Sir:

TIME'S April 8 review of the fantastic Source Materials of the Educational Program: A Guidebook of Living and Learning Experiences sickens and frightens me. What on earth are parents teaching their children these days to lead professors to believe a need exists for such twaddle as Paul Pierce's manual? It is exactly this sort of inane foolishness which has kept many college students out of the teaching profession.

JEROLD E. HOOVER

Grove City, Ohio

Sir:

It gets my dejected hackles up. Does democracy have to stand for this sort of thing at the hands of its Weber & Fields custodians of education?

W. S. CROLLY

Jacksonville

Sir:

Dr. Joel Hildebrand should be commended for criticizing such "drivel." In deciding to work for an M.A. in school administration in order to qualify for secondary school supervision, I was hardly prepared for the shock. My graduate courses consisted of incomprehensible dribble representing a completely vacuous philosophy. It was fully a year after making the switch to philology for my doctorate that I felt scholastically showered and rinsed. At least we don't spend three weeks discussing "the sacredness of the personality." FRANK KNITTEL

Boulder, Colo.

Sir:

Whatsamatter wid dis Hildebrand fella? he oughta know dis progressive edjucation helps da kids adjust to there envirement.

WILLIAM V. SKYLES

Chicago

Need a Secretary?

Sir:

What a fascinating article [April 8] about secretaries. I certainly would like to meet some of these businessmen you speak of who are willing to pay a decent salary for a good secretary with a good secretarial background.

DAPHNE BARNES

Washington, D.C .

Sir:

The independent business colleges of America, greatest source of new secretaries, are flooded with seven calls for every one secretary trained, on a national average. In some communities the ratio is around 60 to one. Businessmen could help with more work-study programs and scholarships.

S. M. VINOCOUR National Association and Council of Business Schools Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I am under 35 and as ugly as I can be. I am easy to please. Don't want glamour. Don't want prestige. Don't want romance. Just plain money will be fine.

SUSAN GANGWER San Bernardino, Calif.

Sir:

Is the shortage serious enough for businessmen to hire Negroes?

DOROTHY L. TERRY

Flint, Mich.

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