The Face in the Crowd

Sir:

We in Bayonne were surprised and proud to see one of our boys on the cover of TIME [Oct. 7]. You called him "a paratrooper"; to us he is Pfc. Robert Patrick Cofield, 19, Company B, 327th Infantry, 101st Airborne. Pat volunteered for the paratroops a year ago to show that he was as good as his older brother Mike, who used to be a paratrooper with the Sand Airborne. He is a quiet, friendly, easy going guy, popular in his neighborhood. Since he has

joined the immortals who made TIME, I thought you might like to know who he is.

GENE SCANLON Bayonne, N.J. P: For a look at a more relaxed Pat Cofield, see cut.--ED.

Sir:

The brave troops depicted in your Oct. 7 issue are wearing the wrong eagle. The Nazi eagle with swastika would be more fitting.

J. R. ABACK

Marlboro, Mass.

SIR:

YOUR LITTLE ROCK COVERAGE IS A MAGNIFICENT JOURNALISTIC ACCOMPLISHMENT. IT WILL AID GREATLY IN MAKING THE "EXPLAINING" THROUGHOUT THE WORLD LESS PAINFUL.

FREDERICK H. REIMERS JR. MEXICO CITY

Sir:

Thanks to your distorted and biased reporting of the integration issue, I am now flying a Confederate battle flag from my office window.

MILTON E. BACON St. Augustine, Fla.

Sir:

I suggest that the name of Little Rock, Ark. be changed. They must have a very Big Rock there for all the Protestants, Catholics, Jews and unaffiliated law-abiding citizens to hide under while Godless, lawless hoodlums take charge.

HELEN R. DILLON Houston

Sir:

President Eisenhower is making a grave mistake if he imagines only America's enemies and "borderline" friends are being further alienated by the Little Rock integration crisis. How do you imagine your staunchest friends feel about all this? The people here are unanimous in their expressions of horror, disgust and disillusionment.

EDWIN LEANE Auckland, N.Z.

Sir:

The Governor of Arkansas might well consider the political career of the late Senator from Wisconsin: notoriety, eclipse, and now--eternity.

R. K. BLANCHARD Berkeley, Calif.

Sir:

Personally, I wonder at the poor taste of the Negroes of Arkansas, for wanting to go to school with the "whites."

MRS. DON ERJAVEC Compton, Calif.

Sir:

A faubus on TIME. Having defined "faubus" as intransitive [Oct. 7], you faubused by making it synonymous with the transitive "bollix," and made a really orval faubus when you used it transitively: "The Democratic Party has been faubused." You ain't no Preservator of grammar.

ROBERT G. HUDSON Wood Ridge, N.J.

God & Man at Princeton

Sir:

How much longer will the leading Protestant universities put up with such treacherous attacks by members of the Catholic priesthood as Dominican Dr. Hugh Halton has been carrying on at Princeton for the past three years [TIME, Oct. 7] ?

President Goheen has at last shown the way. "God and Man at Princeton" is indicative of an inspired program which emanates from Rome, as anti-American as anything coming out of Communist Russia.

A. H. PATTERSON Glastonbury, Conn.

Sir:

The Princeton campus episode presents the so-called free world with a problem almost as sickening as the one in Little Rock. We constantly hear that the American campus allows freedom of expression, but because a priest was doing his duty--to point out the skepticism of many faculty members, as well as their incompetence to teach Catholic theology--the authorities at the university tried to have him dismissed.

It is the old, sad story all over again. Father Halton is getting the same treatment the late Senator McCarthy got.

(THE REV.) ROGER J. MOAG Jennings, La.

Sir:

As a Christian pragmatist, I am disgusted by the action of President Goheen and his trustees against Father Halton. It reminds me of the mama's boys who won't play unless they can make the rules. Because Father Halton acts as if free speech means free speech, he has been ruled out of bounds. Rah! Rah! Tiger! Excuse it please, we mean Tabby Cat.

JOHN D. MICHAEL Washington, D.C.

Sir:

Princeton's attitude exemplifies that of the modern agnostic liberal in today's academic community when brought face to face with a real nonconformist who has convictions and the courage to express them.

VINCENT P. MACQUEENEY Arlington, Va.

The Man Behind the Cigarette

Sir:

Don't you think you may have been even too generous in rating Murrow's current performance [Sept. 30] ? As Britain's Boswell in her crisis some years ago, he was indeed great. Now we seem to have a slightly frustrated anachronism (including cigarette) solemnly orating poorly digested everyday news and personal political prejudices. Avast there, Murrow! Why not follow up that inspiration of taking a protracted vacation and give all of us a rest? Besides, we may need you for later!

ED JONES Langley, Wash.

Sir:

After reading all that ballyhoo, I still don't like Murrow or his programs!

MRS. EDWARD S. SHAW San Diego

Sir:

If Ed Murrow's look, the look of an intelligent man of good will who has encountered too little cause for joy and too much for gloom--if this look can be described as "hangdog," what a ragtag pack of mongrels inhabits our world today!

JAMES REACH New York City

Sir:

I think TIME goofed. Ed's right ear is much more familiar!

MRS. CHARLES E. CURTIS

Bradford, Mass.

P: "Yes," says Artist Giro. "That's why I decided to show the left."--ED. r:

Thank you for presenting the personality behind the cigarette. I still do not enjoy watching or listening to "the bishop," but I now feel that his success is well earned.

VIVIAN MIKOLIZA

Granby, Mo.

Sir:

You close your story on Edward R. Murrow with the comment that TV journalism as a whole is not much good despite its Kcasional brilliance. Please do not be too lard on it. To really appreciate TV network-news shows--and TIME--a person must live in a provincial town like San Antonio. Were it not for TV and radio, we would have to wait a week to learn anything about events other than who shot whom in what tavern.

CHARLES D. SENSON San Antonio

Academic Procession

Sir:

I am elated to find that your magazine has publicly recognized the merits of such educational institutions as "the Ohio Six" [Sept. 30]. Praise be to TIME for breaking through the snob barrier that exists in university circles today and admitting the value of a school like Denison.

GINNY WAGNER Riverside, 111.

Sir:

I can't help objecting when your article grouping six Ohio colleges offers seven photographs of five colleges and omits the fairest of them all, Ohio Wesleyan University.

BETTY B. DROESCHKR Avon, Conn.

P: For a view of the "fairest," see cut. -Eo.

Sir:

Why not at least one more? Wittenberg College of Springfield certainly deserves mention.

(THE REV.) JOHN SCHMIDT Columbus, Ohio

Sir:

Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

DEAN L. PALMER San Diego

Sir:

Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio.

WINONA SORRELL Middletown, Ohio

Sir:

Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio.

ROBERT L. HAMLIN ARLENE CAUSE HAMLIN Arlington, Va.

Sir:

Western Reserve University, Cleveland. GEORGE S. BOBINSKI

Royal Oak, Mich.

Sir:

Thank God for the remaining 50-odd Ohio

colleges and universities that take care of

those who may possibly want a little more

than a roof over their heads for four years.

CARROLL D. GAVER

Springfield, Ohio

Sir:

You say: "No similar intrastate group of colleges and universities is more widely respected . . ." May we nominate the following educational institutions listed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Amherst, Harvard, M.I.T., Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Wellesley, Williams.

R. W. FRANCK M. D. SIMON Amherst, '58 Amherst, Mass.

Cookies by Forbes

Sir:

Would you furnish us with the cooky recipe that New Jersey State Senator Forbes has had printed on the paper napkins he is distributing in his gubernatorial campaign (TIME, Sept. 30]? If it's a Forbes family recipe, it must be good.

ALICE R. RICHARDS

San Francisco

P: 1/2 c. butter, 1 c. sugar, 1 egg or 2 egg yolks, 1 tbsp. milk or cream, 1 3/4 c. flour, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 1 tsp. baking powder. Let butter stand at room temperature until soft. Beat in sugar, egg, milk and vanilla. Add other ingredients mixed and sifted together. Mix well. Chill 1 hour or more. Roll thin, cut with cooky cutter and place on buttered cooky sheet. Bake in 375DEG oven about eight minutes.--ED.

Fire & Ice

Sir:

The pungently unflattering portrait of Revlon's president, Charles Revson [Sept. 30], might serve as the prototype of all tycoons who browbeat fainthearted agency men. I wonder what would happen if all the agencies united against men such as Revson and the late George Washington Hill and told them to plan their advertising with their own sniveling lackeys as the whipping boys!

BILL BENNETT Muskegon, Mich.

Sir:

Revlon's Revson, and others of his lovable type, are precisely why admen get ulcers, drink, have broken homes, or go into farming. My wife is immediately switching to Coty!

STEPHEN KIRCHNER San Francisco

Sir:

Charles Revson's left hand in your picture appears to have two giant blisters. From venturing too close to Madison Avenue ''fire" or from counting the shekels that his admen have brought in?

ERICH VON HOLTENOFF Washington, D.C.

P: Neither blisters nor blood (see cut), but slashes of a Revlon paint called Say It With Rubies.--ED.

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