Frenetic Buildup
Sir:
I hear them acoming in '60. Sounds kinda like Democrats.
J. L. MAHER
Millett, Texas
Sir:
So 10,000 women think Robert Kennedy is a "doll." Well, to me he is just a mop-haired, ambitious young Catholic whose father made his fortune out of banking, Wall Street and selling Scotch whisky. As to brother John for President, in spite of the frenetic buildup being given him, let us remember that America is primarily a Protestant country and the majority of our people would not want a man who believes in a foreign ideology to stand at the helm of our Government.
MRS. JANES
Bradenton, Fla.
Sir:
Re the newly elected Mr. Proxmire: even considering the Morses et al. in our Congress, rarely have we of the U.S. had the distinction of having one so obviously confused represent us. The appalling fact is that citizens can elect such an individual.
E. GORDON SWAIN
Los Angeles
Sir:
With Bill Proxmire serving as their weather vane for the '58 congressional elections, the Democrats probably weren't the least bit affected by your claims that Dick Nixon scored a K.O. in the recent civil rights fiasco. Nixon will need more than TIME and Bill Rogers in '60.
JOSEPH ROSENFELD
Allentown, Pa.
Tales of Hoffa
Sir:
About 15 years in the clink for hooligans like Beck and Hoffa would help the cause of union labor.
J. H. BAKER
Grand Rapids
Sir:
You quote Mr. Hoffa, concerning the recent Detroit newspaper strike, as follows: "In Detroit's recent newspaper strike, at 3 a.m. in the morning three editors came to see me, and we worked things out. I talked and they listened. Can you imagine how it feels to have men like that listen to reason?" This is categorically untrue. Not one Detroit newspaper editor, or managing editor, or city editor met with Mr. Hoffa the night the strike ended, or at any time during the strike. Labor reporters from all three Detroit newspapers covered all meetings and talked with Hoffa but in no way participated in the settlement. In the above quotation, Hoffa may have been referring to these reporters.
JOHN C. MANNING, Editor
Detroit Times
HARRY WADE, Editor
Detroit News
LEE HILLS, Editor Detroit Free Press Detroit
Sir:
I noticed that your Hoffa profile conveniently ignored the well-known fact in Michigan that good ole Jimmy Hoffa is a power in the Michigan Republican Party.
PETER O'NEILL
Detroit
P:Hoffa has played both sides in the past, now is (or was, pre-McClellan) a man of influence among Republican politicians in Michigan's big Wayne County (pop. 2,870,400) on the county and city (Detroit) level.--ED.
Ford's Mixed Grille
Sir:
I have concluded the designers of the new Edsel were striving for the "Surprised Look." If so, they certainly succeeded with the double popeyes and the big oval which seems to say "O-o-oh."
WILLIAM PARDUE
Tucson, Ariz.
Sir:
Ford spent a quarter of a billion to style the Edsel differently from any other car. They made it. From the front it appears about to regurgitate.
H. SIBLEY
Nuevo, Calif.
Sir:
The vertical grille effect on the new Edsel is strongly reminiscent of the vertical grille of my 1935 Plymouth, still in use.
GOLDWIN GOLDSMITH
Austin, Texas
The Colonel & the Lady
Sir:
By influencing the Senate to kill Colonel James Stewart's promotion, Senator Smith has done her country a disservice. Colonel Stewart proved himself to be one of our most able staff officers as well as one of our great combat command pilots.
NORMAN VICKERY
Mansfield, Mass.
Sir:
I once admired Senator Margaret Chase Smith, but now I realize she is like most others of her sex--impulsively retaliative nincompoops.
THOMAS VILLALOVOZ
San Bernardino, Calif.
Top Rankers
Sir:
"The top ranks of American painters include only two women--Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe [TIME, Sept. 9]." How about Cecilia Beaux?
RICHARD M. HUBER
Princeton, NJ.
P: For a typical sample of Philadelphia Portraitist Beaux's work (1863-1942), see cut.--ED.
Old Sacks
Sir:
The 1958 fashions are indeed "A Little Bit Monsterish." Apparently Paris' idea of fashion is to see who can conceive the most ridiculous outfit at the highest price.
GEORGE STONE
Cape Elizabeth, Me.
Sir:
Another designation might be "Droopy Drawers."
J. T. CRAYCROFT
Dallas
Sir:
Actually, la poitrine was never so emphasized as in the new decolletage, and le derriere is still with us. For the girls who are enceinte, that "sack" will be O.K., and the rest of us will just cinch in the side seams and add a swishy cummerbund. Voila!
ELSA PARSONS
Chicago
The Integration Front
Sir:
Where were "the best people" of Little Rock, Ark? We know the mayor was in his office. Why wasn't he out there in the street giving safe-conduct to women and children? Where were all the heaven-hollering preachers? Where were the priests of the "one true Church?" Where were the officers of the Y.M.C.A.? Where were the Boy Scout leaders? As a Southerner, I can understand the social issues. I am tolerant of a normal degree of cowardice. But the cowardice of "the best people" of Little Rock was an unnatural cowardice that ought to be explained--if it can be.
H. BRUCE PRICE
Alexandria, Va.
Sir:
Your diatribe against Arkansas' Faubus is nauseating.
JAMES I. MORTON
Howell, Mich.
Sir:
Any state whose governor is so audacious as to repudiate federal law should be cut off completely from all federal aid (highway construction included).
JANICE A. TORRINGTON
Villanova, Pa.
Sir:
Negroes denied the rights of citizenship should be exempt from taxes and compulsory military service.
EDWIN K. LANGILLE
Boston
Sir:
For Man of the Year: Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas--the only man to stem the black tide.
MAX SIEGEL
Washington, B.C.
Sir:
After reading your Sept. 9 article, I shook my head with a sudden realization; no matter how advanced our modern civilization, the train of thought remains prehistoric.
R. F. TRUPP
New Orleans
The Yawn of a Long Day
Sir:
With reference to your Sept. 9 article "The Last, Hoarse Gasp": on Aug. 30, 1957, I issued a statement with reference to my extended address against the so-called civil rights bill in which I made the following points: 1) that the Southern Senators agreed that each Senator was on his "own" to oppose the bill as best he could; 2) that I urged another meeting of Southern Senators for the purpose of agreeing to conduct an organized extended debate; and 3) that while urging this meeting I notified Senator Russell that I intended to make a long speech against the bill.
STROM THURMOND
United States Senate
Washington, D. C.
P: Senator Thurmond may have told Senator Russell that he intended to make a "long speech," but he did not say he intended to make a Senate-record filibuster of 24 hr. 18 min.--ED.
Segregate the Aggregate
Sir:
We should segregate the Russians because they are making trouble, and the Japanese because they fought us, and the Spanish who did, and the Germans who did, and the French who obviously cannot spell. And the English because they are English, which is enough reason. In fact, I think we should segregate all nationalities except the Irish.
HIRAM WILSON SHERIDAN
Glen Ellyn, Ill.
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