Old Nick
Sir:
Your cover story on Khrushchev [July 22] was fine. The article, translated into workingman's Russian, should be showered on Russia in leaflets.
One optimistic note is that Khrushchev has bad kidneys. If he goes on drinking that yorsh, or whatever, he may, sooner than we dare to think, face the Maker he denied in life.
RICHARD P. PETTY Detroit
SIR:
AM I THE FIRST TO NICKNAME NIKITA OLD NICK?
JOSEPH CAVANAGH BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
Sir:
There is more than a bare possibility that Lieut. General Khrushchev will read and see the illustrations in TIME'S cover story. May I suggest that he cut out and frame the picture of himself greeting a little child. Let us hope he will look at this picture daily and see in it what Americans would gladly see if we could divorce it from the overcast of contemporary historical shadows.
WILBUR P. ROBINSON
Chicago
Opiate
Sir:
Surely Edward R. Murrow's reflection [TIME, July 15], "If television and radio are to be used to entertain all of the people all of the time, we have come perilously close to discovering the real opiate of the people," is coincidental to Carl Sandburg's statement [TIME, June 17], "When we reach the stage where all of the people are entertained all of the time, we will be very close to having the opiate of the people."
(T/SGT.) DANIEL M. OESER
Parris Island, S. C.
P:Karl Marx has an earlier title. In his Introduction to a Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right, he wrote: "It [religion] is the opium of the people."--ED.
Incredible Los Angeles
Sir:
Congratulations on TIME'S brilliant reporting of the incredible Los Angeles mess [July 15]. Perish the thought that one day the empire the ubiquitous Chandlers built will engulf us in the central coastal region that we smogless Californians call home.
LUCILE THOMPSON
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Sir:
Now there will be 8,400 popeyed newcomers per week--and where, oh where are we going to put them?
RUTH DIMOND
NORMAN WELLMAN
Los Angeles
Sir:
As a longtime employee of the Los Angeles Times (30 years), I resent your statement that the Times is not a great newspaper.
BRUCE RUSSELL
Editorial Cartoonist
Los Angeles
Sir:
There is only one description that truly fits Norman Chandler's Los Angeles Times: a gutless wonder. It is not what the Times has done, but what it has not done for the benefit of all of the people in this area.
LAWRENCE ESTES
Van Nuys, Calif.
Sir:
I am a worker and a hustler. I am young and healthy. I have brains, brawn, guts, a little capital, a good deal of energy, and I love Los Angeles.
But when the smog descends, my eyes water, my nose clogs up, my throat gets sore, I feel miserable, and work at only half capacity. So I packed up and left and took my business with me.
JANE HARLAN
Pittsburgh
Sir:
While looking over the cover, I made the statement that the painting of Norman Chandler was done in brush. A challenge followed that the painting was done with a palette knife and brush. Which was used?
(A/IC) WILLIAM L. RUNGE
U.S.A.F.
Ardmore Air Force Base, Okla.
P: Says Artist Henry Koerner, who does not paint with a palette knife: "I used the only brush that can be used--a 626B Grumbacher #7."--ED.
Sir:
I greatly enjoyed your story of Los Angeles and the Otis-Chandler-Times influence. But who added the asterisky comment "No kin to the elevator people"?
Elisha Graves Otis, who invented the elevator, was third cousin of General Harrison Gray Otis. They both had their ups and downs.
HARRISON GRAY OTIS
Biloxi, Miss.
P: Reader Otis is first cousin three times removed of Inventor Elisha Graves Otis, third cousin three times removed of General Harrison Gray Otis.--ED.
Sir:
In whose lap does the lanyard land when Norman and Buffie let loose?
MRS. JOHN R. FOWLER
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
P: Into the lap of Son Otis, 29, now a classified advertising salesman on the Times.--ED
Alive & Kicking
SIR:
TO PARAPHRASE SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS, YOUR REPORT OF OUR DEATH ON TV "IS GREATLY EXAGGERATED" [JULY 8]. THE ARMSTRONG CIRCLE THEATRE "ACTUALS" WILL BE VERY MUCH ALIVE ON CBS TV ON ALTERNATE WEDNESDAYS, COME OCTOBER 2ND.
ROBERT E. COSTELLO
PRODUCER
NEW YORK CITY
P: TIME'S set lost the picture temporarily.--ED.
The Senator For Algeria
Sir:
It is inspiring to read [July 15] of Senator Kennedy's courageous efforts in the bloody Algerian rebellion. The present Administration has proved they have no eyes to see, no ears to hear, and no voice to answer to injustice and persecution.
MARJORIE A. GRICE
Arlington, Va.
Sir:
There are those who wonder whether in this advocacy Senator Kennedy is primarily motivated by political ambition. The Senator could easily allay such a base suspicion by advocating also the return of Puerto Rico to the Puerto Ricans, Hawaii to the Hawaiians, and Alaska to the Alaskans. The Virgin Islands, too.
EDWARD D. DECKER
New Rochelle, N.Y.
Sir:
What has happened to Don Quixote Kennedy that he passes such big windmills as Hungary, Rumania, Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany to tilt at Algeria, which the French have run so successfully for 127 years?
KATHARINE RAFFALOVICH
Rapallo, Italy
O Opera, O Mores
Sir:
Your story about the Santa Fe Opera Association [July 15] contained yet another instance of man's inhumanity to librettists. One might assume that The Tower is an opera sans paroles. Could there be no mention of no-longer-so-young (32) U.S. Comic Poet Townsend T. Brewster, who wrote the text?
TOWNSEND T. BREWSTER
Jamaica, L.I., N.Y.
Sir:
Re your picture accompanying this article: unless I am seriously mistaken, the singer on the far right happens to be a mezzo-soprano named Natalie Moeckel. I feel that you have done your readers an injustice by not publishing a better picture of this charming young lady.
HENRY C. SCHWARZ
Fredericksburg, Va.
P: Justice triumphs. See cut.--ED.
Great Danes & Poodles
Sir:
As indicated in your Letters column [July 15], the "small-bore minds" are in the majority, with their adverse opinions, regarding the forward direction of the Supreme Court.
However, the Supreme Court, in its recent far-reaching decisions, has opened up the way for human rights and freedom, and thus a stronger democracy.
FRANK H. WOOD
Burnham, Pa.
Sir:
Earl Warren's decisions and influence on the high court are in the best interests of the nation, and every citizen should be proud and happy to have such a man heading the country's judicial branch.
Those heaping abuse on him could well ponder the words of a politician of some renown: "A great Dane always has little poodles yapping at his heels."
(Sp/3) EUGENE D. MOSSNER
A.P.O. 503, San Francisco
Sir:
It would be a blessing if the present Supreme Court could be impeached and replaced with American patriots (not politicians) having the character and ability to defend their nation's institutions from the machinations of an ideology that has enslaved so many millions.
M. E. SMITH
Washington, D.C.
Missed Boat?
Sir:
All this controversy about Billy Graham's method of getting us to glory land [TIME, July 8] leaves me cold. Catholics and Protestants are nice people, but they'll be so busy checking routes and accommodations that the boat will leave them.
GEORGE HATCH
Florence, Ala.
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