Adlai & the Frontiersmen
Sir:
What is really disturbing in l'affaire Stevenson [Dec. 14] is the fact that something said in a top-secret council can leak out to anyone, including "Old Pal" Bartlett. Any time such a council meets, differences of opinion are expected, but when a final decision is made, it must be accepted and carried out by all.
STEPHEN DI STEFANO
Broomall, Pa.
Sir:
Perhaps the entire difficulty revolves around the fact that many of the New Frontiersmen simply are not smart enough to keep up with the rapidly moving intricacies of Mr. Stevenson's exceptional intelligence. Frontiersmen through the ages have repeatedly demonstrated more courage than cogency. It is unfortunate if their courage is buttressed with such tenacity that they are unable to recognize good judgment. I am reminded of the thought that good judgment is achieved through experience--and experience most frequently is the product of bad judgment.
FRANK D. BOWER
New Canaan, Conn.
Sir:
Poor, poor Adlai E. Stevenson, who has not yet come to realize that the intellectual in politics is the poorest man alive.
SARAH K. GARDNER
Boston
Sir:
At last someone has put the Stevenson affair into a meaningful, well-written pattern. Your excellent cover story helped clarify the fragmented bits of information which have been appearing daily.
TERESE KARMEL
Washington, D.C.
Sir:
I was impressed with the pensiveness Ben Shahn conveyed in the Stevenson painting.
E. FLOYD SHERMAN
Los Angeles
Sir:
Are you sure that sketch of Adlai Steven wasn't really done by Caroline?
DOYLE L. MCCULLER
Houston
Sir:
Kennedy would do well to heed Machia-advice: "Princes, and especially new ones, have found more faith and more usefulness in those men whom at the beginning of their power they regarded with suspicion."
SHARON WARTNICK
Minneapolis
Sir:
I wonder if President Kennedy realizes that Rockefeller will win in 1964 if we Stevenson supporters switch sides?
IRVING PESKOE
Homestead, Fla.
Doggone!
Sir:
I that just Pushinka, thought glibly I'd call to referred to your as '"he" in attention your Dec. 7 article, is, in all probability, pregnant. Another "first" for the Russians?
ROBERT A. SHAPIRO
Washington, D.C.
When a Gentleman Is a Pirate
Sir:
American newsmen seem to convey the opinion that De Gaulle intends to build some obstacles to England's association with the Common Market. The fact must be emphasized that England has the right and the freedom to associate itself, but at the same level as the other members, and there is no reason to give it special privileges.
It is said that an Englishman is a gentle man with women and a pirate in business, and a Frenchman a gentleman in business and a pirate with women, to suggest that pi racy is the key to success. Albion is usually represented by an English gentleman who is one of the most delightful creatures the earth has ever seen, in sofar as it is a question of a hurt swallow or a round of golf, but as soon as it is a question of commerce, the mild gentleman may be come a terrible and stubborn clog.
CLAUDE MASSOT
Madison, Wis.
Who Is a Jew?
Sir:
Millions of Americans have heard from pulpits and read in books that the Jews are the "Chosen People" and that God elected them for a special mission to mankind. Up until now, most people have had some idea as to what constituted a Jew and what his mission was. But after the ruling of the highest authoritative Jewish body in Israel -- Israel's Supreme Court -- in the case of Brother Daniel, we have become entirely ignorant as to who is a Jew and what makes a Jew. Brother Daniel was born of good, faithful Jewish parents, received a good Jewish edu cation, was an ardent Zionist, loved his people to such a degree that he endangered his life to save them from the Nazis. Yet he was denied an immigrant visa to Israel and Israel citizenship, under the "Law of the Return," to which every other Jew is entitled. Why was Brother Daniel made an exception? Be cause Israel's Supreme Court bereaved him of the right to be called "Jew" for the reason that he believes in the tenets of Christianity. According to this ruling, a Jew is a Jew even if he docs not believe in any kind of Judaism. He may be an atheist or a criminal. He does not have to observe any Jewish law. But there is only one condition, one restriction: he must not believe in the kind of Judaism in which Jesus and his followers believed, and which thousands of Jews believe to be the true, original, God-given Judaism.
JACOB GARTENHAUS President International Board of Jewish Missions* Atlanta
An Abundance
Sir: Apparently Madison Avenue is looking to Fifth Avenue for inspiration in the current ad fad for nudity noted in your Dec. 7 Modern Living article.
The perspective and proportions of the female figure shown in the photograph selling "Soft Magic" are obviously based on those of the bronze statue Abundance on top of the Plaza Fountain, the last work of the Austrian-American sculptor Karl Bitter (1867-1915).
JAMES M. DENNIS
Kent State University Kent, Ohio
Wronged Rhyme
Sir:
The verse about the Chinese quoted in your Letters column for Dec. 14 was written by me in March 1935 about the Japanese, who were just then beginning to flex their muscles. I am happy to see anything of mine in TIME, though I would have preferred an ecstatic review of my new book Everyone but Thee and Me.
OGDEN NASH
New York City > To the reader Who misquoted Nash: G-nash3ED.
Riot in Washington
Sir:
Congratulations on your factual reporting I Dec. 7] on the football riot Thanksgiving Day in Washington, D.C. It was exactly as told to me by eyewitnesses.
WILLIAM F. FRANCIS
Bluefield, W. Va.
Sir:
The most frightening aspect of the recent race riot in Washington is the manner in which it was so obviously played down or ignored by the news media of this country. If those were white students performing those acts, it would have resulted in pictures on the front pages of the papers, television coverage, and wrathful indignation by political, religious and business leaders.
MRS. JAMES HEATH
Chicago
Dulles Airport
Sir:
Thank you for the fascinating treatment of Dulles Airport [Nov. 30]. The story was informative and the pictures splendid.
While it is true that Ecro Saariner and Associates were architects of the terminal building and that the idea of the mobile lounge was Ecro's, our firm was subcontractor, along with Burns & McDonnell and Ellery Husted, to Arumann & Whitney. I should like to have them share the credit.
ALINE B. SAARINEN
Hamden, Conn.
Footnote
Sir:
May I add a footnote in the paragraph in Press. Nov. 30, in which you quote Lester Markel on the subject of his doubts (apparently belated) about schools and journalism? "Graduate of one of Columia ('14); brother-in-law of Irwin Edman, Columbia College of Journalism ('17); father of Helen Markel Stewart, Columbia Journalism ('41); father-in-law of fellow Timesman John G. Stewart, Columbia Journalism ('46); colleague of 70 Columbia Journalism graduates on the New York Times."
RICHARD T. BAKER Associate Dean
Graduate School of Journalism Columbia University New York City
No Pub
Sir:
You refer to me [Louise Cordet's mother] as a "London pubkeeper" [Dec 7].
The Saddle Room (my club) is one of the most exclusive and successful discotheque* clubs in the world.
HELENE CORDET
London
A Familiar Face
Sir:
Reading a most interesting article in the Religion section [Dec. 7]. I was pleased to find mention of Mrs. harold Luellan of Kansas City's Roanoke Presbyterian Church, whom I've known ever since I was a student in her Sunday school clas in the '30s. Glancing at the accompanying picture, I was surprised to see my own daughter Peggy standing there among the children.
I haven't seen her in almost six months, since my taking up residence here at the American School of Oriental Research on an arechaeological sabbatical from my teaching responsibilities at Union Seminary in New York. Five-year-old Peggy isn't able yet to appreciate what it means to have "made Time Magazine," but Daddy does!
GEORGE M. LANDES
Jerusalem, Jordan
* An organization devoted to converting Jews to Christianity.
*The French word for a collection of records.
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