Ike's Quail Hash

Sir:

We spend time hunting quail, would take time to prepare "quail hash, the President's favorite dish" [Oct. 31]. Can you come up with the recipe? We would enjoy a try at it.

ART GRAMS BILL QUAINTANCE Rock Island, Ill.

P: For one serving take two dressed quail, simmer in one pint of chicken broth for 15 minutes; remove birds from broth and pluck meat from bones, returning the meat (finely chopped) to broth until cooked; thicken with one tablespoon of flour, season to taste and serve on toast points or with hominy grits. (The President prefers grits.) -ED.

The Revolutionary

Sir:

By TIME'S estimation, Mr. Nasser of Egypt is a handsome hero who is braving the unwarranted aggression of a little democracy called Israel. With his portrait plastered all over the front cover of your Sept. 26 issue, you paint him as a man of great restraint, who withholds his anger despite the torments inflicted upon him.

MRS. B. KRAMER Philadelphia

Sir:

I have to express my admiration for the article dealing with the Egyptian revolution. It was an interesting critical analysis.

GAMAL ABDEL NASSER Prime Minister Cairo

The State of the Farmer

Sir:

As one who has been very critical of most of your stories on agriculture, I would like to be equally quick to compliment you most highly for your farm-income article in the Nov. 7 issue; it is factual and written with the clear-cut seriousness which the subject deserves.

J. H. FLOREA Mount Morris, Ill.

Sir:

The U.S. seems to be pretty statistical-minded when it comes to the U.S. farmer and his howl. Our receipts are up but our operating expenses are up also. How can we buy the items needed and economize? We can -by working 18 hours a day, as many do who show the 11% profit, and use 12-and 13-year-old children to work as unpaid labor. Your city labor is working for shorter hours. Mr. Benson tells the farmer to work longer hours for less hourly wage. The farm situation is dangerous because the farmer and his family are damn mad.

DONALD S. CONKEY Caseville, Mich.

Calling the Moose

Sir:

That Nov. 7 feature, "Big Game in the U.S.," scored a real hit. Photographer Joern Gerdts' skill in shooting game far surpasses that of any hunter -whether he be the weekend small-townsman in Levis or the big-city boy in his "pure cashmere long underwear from Abercrombie & Fitch." Gerdts' photos should make some readers still the itching trigger finger instead of arousing the desire to kill.

STANLEY A. SPRECHER Fort Wayne, Ind.

Sir:

The big game pictures are marvelous, but some of the statements in the article are not realistic. It should be against the game law for anyone to talk about shooting moose with as light a rifle as a 30-30, and you don't need a birchbark horn to call moose. A cheerleader's megaphone or a rolled up copy of TIME will do just as well.

EDISON MARSHALL Augusta, Ga.

Sir:

Shame on TIME for trying to pass off a sloppily stuffed sack of fur as a live elk. All your bugling hunter is going to lure out of that glass-eyed mount are moths.

TOM MCHUGH Banff, Alberta

P: Let Reader McHugh look again. Photographer Gerdts' elk was of no stuffed ilk. -ED.

Sir:

Would like to advise TIME readers who might be contemplating the long trek into the wilderness of northern Maine for a moose hunt to be prepared to pay the fine [of up to $400] which accompanies the act.

JAMES RICHARDS JR. Orono, Me.

Who for '56?

Sir:

From the list of prospective G.O.P. nominees to succeed Ike, you omitted one who I feel sure would carry more weight and inspire more confidence than any other. I refer to Herbert Hoover Jr.

JAMES R. BAILEY Winter Park, Fla.

Sir:

How about reversing the ticket? "Nixon and Eisenhower" should still make a sure winner. Ike could specialize in Foreign Affairs with the Secretary of State working closely with him as now, but a big load of his personal responsibilities would be lifted from him, whereas his valued advice would be available when needed.

FREEMAN CLARKSON Newfane, Vt.

Sir:

No matter how much flag-waving you do for your boy Dick Nixon, the truth of the matter is that the only Republican who will beat any Democrat in 1956 is Earl Warren.

GORDON SCHWARTZ Philadelphia

Sir:

Thank you for uncovering a dark horse in the Democratic Party -Governor Frank Lausche of Ohio. Glad to know that there are still honest politicians who put duty and honor before friendship.

PFC. ROBERT BURNS U.S. Army Anchorage, Alaska

Margaret's Decision (Contd.)

Sir:

In common with many Englishmen, I tend subconsciously to regard much American journalism as flamboyant and not quite in "good taste." It is with considerable pleasure that I am constrained to congratulate you on your Nov. 7 article. By comparison with much of the unashamed bad taste that has been written on the subject in the British press, it is a very fine and carefully unemotional statement of a position which has encouraged the display of just that character. B. J. N. EDWARDS

Durham, England

Sir:

Their story points up once more that the British as a nation are aware of one great truth which we Americans prefer to ignore: that certain moral principles can and do transcend mere personal happiness. I don't want "popularity" and "happiness" first of all for my children; if they attain the moral stature I wish for them I know they will often be both unpopular and unhappy.

ELLEN BULL Boulder, Colo.

Sir:

Monday afternoon I, with the rest of the world, read the details on the Margaret-Townsend affair. Wednesday morning, across the continent from your editorial offices, TIME arrived with the story. How did you do it?

ART SUTTON

Los Angeles

P: TIME went to press on Sunday night with Princess Margaret on the cover, on the assumption that a yes or no was all but inevitable that week. When flie news broke Monday afternoon, TIME stopped the presses, had only to write a new last paragraph, caught three-quarters of the domestic run and all foreign editions. -ED.

Industrial Chaplains

Sir:

Thank you for the space you gave to the work of industrial chaplains [Oct. 31]. Hope we may have more reports of this brought to the public, that the doors in industry may be opened to this service. But you misquoted me in saying that I consider the people's misunderstandings as "petty as the dickens." To my knowledge, I have never in my life used that expression. Were I to use it, certainly not in reference to the problems brought to me by the people. To them the problems are great, or they would not bring them to me. It is not for me to belittle them.

BERNARD W. NELSON Chaplain

Independent Packing House Workers Union Kansas City, Kans.

Working Wonders

Sir:

Congratulations on "Seven Wonders of the U.S." in the Oct. 31 News in Pictures. They are really more than wonders, they are working wonders and portray the implementation of science through engineering for the service of mankind.

FRANCIS G. YATES Colorado Springs, Colo.

Sir:

We are very proud and pleased to see a picture of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The picture only shows the eastern approach. The enclosed picture shows the entire structure [see cut]. We in California appreciate the recognition given to this bridge.

FRANK B. DURKEE Director of Public Works Sacramento

Such Crust

Sir:

So "the best apple pie in the U.S. is served in Cripple Creek, Colo.?" This association officially objects to the kudos carelessly flung at Cripple Creek by the wandering Gills [Oct. 31]. Our vice presidents annually proclaim that the apple pie supreme is artistically contrived by the rural housewives of the Middle West.

ROBERT L. FINCH President and Top Crust Apple Pie Testers Association Columbus, Ohio

Sir:

Yakima is one of the largest apple-producing centers, so it came as somewhat of a shock to find that restaurants here failed to produce a tasty apple pie. One individual here suggested that the restaurateurs of Cripple Creek be invited to move to Yakima along with their pie tins; another suggested that the apple growers of Yakima be invited to move to Cripple Creek. A pie-testing task force was dispatched to various restaurants; other remedies will be taken to ensure travelers passing through this town that apple pies are worthy of the name of Yakima. JESS LINDEMAN President

Yakima Chamber of Commerce Yakima, Wash.

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