Man of the Year
Sir:
I would like to nominate Mr. Khrushchev as Man of the Year for the role he played in the Cuban crisis.
RUTH CRAWFORD
Aldan, Pa.
Sir:
Nikita Khrushchev, to whose realistic appraisal of the totality of thermonuclear warfare and respect for human life you and I, as well as a billion others in the northern hemisphere, owe an expression of gratitude that we are still alive.
HUGH J. GILMARTIN
Denver
Sir:
Adlai E. Stevenson. His actions during the past two months as well as for the entire year have shown him to be a man of highest worth and of extreme good judgment, whose purpose is the vindication of that ideal so sacred to the American cause--world peace.
JOHN R. GINGLES, '65
University of Wyoming Laramie, Wyo.
Sir: I nominate as co-recipients Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Mr. Adlai Stevenson, since each of them has been something of a rarity in a world in which Mao Tse-tungs and Billie Sol Esteses are beginning to seem almost too ordinary.
JOHN G. BENNETT
Austin, Texas
Sir:
The most silent but most dangerous man of 1962 remains Mao Tse-tung. His Red Dragon is spreading its menace all over Asia.
KANWAL B. SINGH
New Delhi
Sir:
Pope John XXIII. He even appeals to the Protestants.
MRS. HAROLD HOFSTAD
Warren, Minn.
Sir:
Konrad Adenauer, for his excellent leadership qualities. Germany will lose a great man when he retires in about a year.
LARRY S. RASKIN
Buffalo
Sir:
Charles de Gaulle. The Presidency of the U.S. is a truly cincho job compared with running the chaotic political patchwork known as the French government. Successful execution of this formidable feat has rightly earned for De Gaulle a stature far above the various clowns, clods and posturing windbags whose incompetence as heads of state has served to keep the world in constant crisis since World War II.
DALE TAPP
Seguin, Texas
Sir:
In view of the fact that it is highly unlikely that your cherished accolade is to be bestowed upon President Kennedy for a second year in succession (although he did nothing to earn it last year), I would like to suggest for Man of the Year, President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam. He is one of the few world leaders to be sincere and determined in the struggle against creeping and malignant Communism.
ROGER MORRIS
London
Sir: Kennedy--with his Cuban action--halted the cold war with the Soviet Union, but only after he was backed into a corner and he and his advisers decided they had no choice.
Fortunately, his action proved that Russia is afraid to start or permit an atomic war.
Therefore, since Kennedy actually made the decision that now relieves a great amount of tension for the people of the United States and others over the world, I feel his action deserves the award.
L. L. GOODMAN
Indianapolis
The Packers
Sir:
Many kind thanks for your splendid article on Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers [Dec. 21].
As a home-town Green Bay boy now transplanted, I have told the marvelous story of the Packers many times, and thanks to your wonderful article it now is told for all.
There is something very basic to America's freedom and opportunity in the fact that a small town such as Green Bay and a team with such humble beginnings could rise to national prominence.
DEAN M. STRID
Chicago
Dancing
Sir:
You misinterpreted the charming picture of President Kennedy and his two children in his office at the White House [Nov. 30]. They are not merely "romping," nor is "Daddy applauding their antics from the sidelines." The two children are definitely dancing, and the President is just as definitely beating time for them, not "applauding."
SIGMUND SPAETH Editor
Music Journal New York City
Ellender in Africa
Sir:
It will take all the American teachers in Africa many months to erase the scars left by Senator Ellender's thoughtless remarks during his recent African junket [Dec. 14].
MILES S. PENDLETON JR.
Ghana Secondary School Koforidua, Ghana
Sir:
No one, of course, is supposed to go into a home and insult the homemaker; on the other hand, a more truthful statement was never made.
There is a great deal of difference between the U.S. and Africa in civilization and education, a fact not yet recognized in Washington.
L. T. LEWIS
Dallas
Sir:
You quote Senator Ellender as saying that Booker T. Washington had a white mother.
In the interest of truth, let it be said that Booker himself said that his mother was black, that he never knew his father, who never displayed any interest in him, but believed that his father was a white employee on a neighboring plantation.
CHARLES R. STARK
Kent, Wash.
Mansion Builder
Sir:
In the Nov. 23 TIME, you referred to Le Grand Lockwood, builder and original owner of the mansion at Norwalk, Conn., as a "Civil War profiteer."
Upon the death of her husband, Mrs. Lockwood received, among many tributes, a resolution from the New York Stock Exchange stating there would be no session the day of his funeral. Mr. B. Ogden White, secretary of the exchange, described Mr. Lockwood as one who, for a quarter of a century, has been prominently identified with its history and who, by "unfaltering integrity, enterprise and tireless energy, had won for himself a name inferior to none."
It is a matter of great concern to all that TIME, in all fairness, remove the stigma of "Civil War profiteer" from the reputation of a fine and honorable man.
MRS. LE GRAND LOCKWOOD REDFIELD
New York City
Creativity
Sir:
Having just read Education [Dec. 14], I am forced to ask Dr. Hudson a question: Is, in his opinion, a good scientist required to be creative ? Anyone who has studied the many uses to which scientific principles have been applied, or even scientific methods of discovery and proof, would answer that science and engineering do require a great deal of creativity. Would Dr. Hudson say that Niels Bohr, who understood the interior of the atom so well, even though he could not see it, was an uncreative person ?
FRANK CARSEY
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, N. Mex.
Sir:
Why is Psychologist Hudson so surprised at his results with the Getzels-Jackson test?
Just as science majors have a lot of practice giving "right" answers, English majors have had to write plenty of themes and stories.
The lack of interest of the English student in measuring out a given amount of water with jugs of the wrong sizes is matched by the science student's unconcern with the rationalizations of frustrated foxes. Neither boredom proves very much about either reasoning ability or imagination. The psychologist who thinks he has a test to separate ability and creativity from interest, practice and environment is kidding himself--or somebody else.
R. STRESAU
Spooner, Wis.
Home-Town Product
Sir:
While I don't mind the Harvard Crimson's bubbling over in its own "characteristic spontaneity" as it invaded New York with T 0,000 copies during the newspaper strike I Dec. 21], it was a bit annoying to sec our own efforts at the Columbia Daily Spectator completely ignored.
Without too much fanfare, we printed 20,000 copies daily, starting two days after the strike began.
While the Harvard class of 1940 seems to have established a monopoly in Washington, the answer to "Who Owns New York?" is still largely the same as it has been over the years.
LORON GOPSTEIN Managing Editor
Columbia Spectator Columbia University New York City
It Figures
Sir:
I would like to call your attention to an error in your story on the automotive market [Dec. 7]. You reported General Motors Chairman Frederic G. Donner as saying, "Cars are being scrapped in the U.S. at a rate of more than 4,000,000 a year, v. 3,200,000 in the early '505."
Mr. Donner's statement actually said, "Cars are currently being scrapped at the rate of 5,200,000 a year."
ANTHONY DE LORENZO Vice President
General Motors Corp. New York City
A Happy Man
Sir:
I am 84 years old, have perfect health, a darling new wife (aged 80), and I have a new book that is going all over the world. Half a dozen old books are being reprinted, and Disney is doing one of them for the children of the world. Tell your sprightly reviewer [Dec. 14] he may have all the fun he pleases with me.
UPTON SINCLAIR Monrovia, Calif.
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