Hidden Treasures

Sir:

After reading "Masterpieces of Chinese Art" [May 6] and devouring every detail of Robert Crandall's excellent photographs, I sadly considered the plight of a world in which such lovely treasures must be stored away in concrete warehouses.

GERTRUDE A. BOLLINGER

Pittsburgh

Sir:

TIME is surely to be congratulated. Seldom have I seen such a fine marriage of the artist and the printer to result in magazine reproductions such as those.

WILLIAM G. JOHNSTON New York City

Sir:

The text stands out as a clear, conscientious and beautiful interpretation of Chinese art. The illustrations reproducing the delicate colors and tones do justice to the originals.

HEINRICH SCHWARZ

Middletown, Conn.

Wooldridge & Ramo

Sir:

Everybody in the industry knows that it is "Ramo-Wooldridge" Corp. Why the cover [April 29] showing Wooldridge and Ramo?

EDWARD D. SPEAR

New Hartford, N.Y.

> The company's arrangement of names is for purposes of euphony; the cover's arrangement of faces is for purposes of composition. Ars victrix.--ED.

Sir:

I liked your article on Ramo-Wooldridge. In 1931 Dean Wooldridge and I had an 11 o'clock French class at the University of Oklahoma. We usually met for a game of pool between 10 and 11 o'clock. We were the world's worst players.

We studied our French between shots. The result: Dean's grades were 100% every day and on every test for the entire semester.

Lest I be misunderstood, let me hasten to add that the point of this story is the importance of brainpower--not the place of the poolroom in a young man's success. Dean Wooldridge was the "Big Red" of the brain squad.

CARL ALBERT Majority Whip House of Representatives Washington

Sir:

Pray tell what are "Ph meters"? Laboratories might be interested in replacing pH meters with them.

KARL N. GUTZKE

Port Arthur, Texas

>TIME goopHed.--ED.

How to be Saved

Sir:

A Roman Catholic priest has told Roman Catholics of New York City to remain away from meetings sponsored by Billy Graham Crusades, and given as the basis of such action that the Roman Catholic Church is the only true church (May 6). As a Presbyterian, I must protest.

It is only necessary to read the background of the Inquisition carried out in the name of the "true church" to realize that Communist torture methods are no more horrible or brutal. Tyranny is tyranny whether it goes under the name of "the true church" or any other label. The Catholic Church is as guilty in removing the basic "freedom of choice," upon which all other freedoms are based, as any Communist government which imposes its will on the people.

J. N. HUGHES

Hamilton, Ont.

Sir:

Father Kelly is right. Why be half-saved when it is much easier to be half-informed. Catholics, turn off your radios and TV sets, close your ears to this propaganda and live in ignorant bliss.

GUSTAV R. SCHMIEGE

Cliffside Park, N.J.

Sir:

Why doesn't Graham preach the full Gospel? It is high time to ask Billy to go "all the way" as well as "all-out" for Christ.

CAPTAIN F. G. McCULLOUGH Chaplain

Andrews Air Base Washington, D. C.

Sir:

A blasphemous one man's opinion. There would certainly be an uproar if non-Catholics protested to Bishop Sheen's being on TV just because he reaches into the homes of thousands of Protestants. This was certainly a non-Christian attitude on the Rev. John E. Kelly's part, and possibly it is for this reason that so many "fairly well instructed Catholics may be 'deceived'"--or as I would say "converted."

LEE FLYNN

Pittsburgh

Sir:

So Billy's converts are only "half-saved!" In the first place, they are not Billy's, but God's. Secondly, there is no such thing as being half-saved. A person is either wholly God's, or not at all.

V. R. WEISS

Allcntown, Pa.

Bays at Stags

Sir:

TIME's report of stag magazines [April 29] recalls memories of my high-school days 66 years ago in a small Hoosier town. We had no b. & b. magazines, so we turned to literature, both sacred and profane, to find the double-entendre and other glimpses of mysteries of man and woman. We found plenty.

OTTO MCFEELY Oak Park, Ill.

Sir:

If these magazines ruin moral standards and they must be murdered at the newsstands, then let's kill all the magazines covering crime. No more detective yarns, no killing, no war. What's left? Crochet, anyone?

BOB BRISTOW

Altus, Okla.

Sir:

I say cease further debate, and on with a burning of the books !

R. E. PEARSON Denver

Sir:

The similarities between Playboy and its "imitators" are superficial and the qualitative differences tremendous. For Playboy, sex is but one part of a sophisticated totality.

HUGH M. HEFNER

Editor-Publisher Playboy Chicago

Sir:

Are stag magazines, lewd and pornographic literature deadening the moral and spiritual strength of our youth, or is it our low morals and spiritual weaknesses that make obscenity and smut bestselling stuff ?

J. KESNER KAHN

Chicago

Wrong Brother?

Sir:

It was neat the way Dwight David laughed brother Edgar out of the way [TIME, April 29]. It would be even neater if he could likewise dispose of Edgar's criticisms.

JOAN ATTERBURY

Tucson, Ariz.

Sir:

We apparently picked the wrong brother.

ELIZABETH HAMM

Los Angeles

Whipping the Jockey

Sir:

Your article on Howard Miller [April 29] failed to point out that most Chicagoans know him for what he really is -- an insincere, bigoted, pompous windbag.

JAMES McCULLOUGH

Chicago

Sir:

Howard Miller is to music what Tab Hunter is to acting--NOTHING.

PATRICIA MATTSON

Chicago

Sir:

More power to Disk Jockey Howard Miller.

ANNE KEATS

Chicago

The First List

Sir:

Your comment on the order of the Ten Commandments [April 22] mentions everybody's listing but what should be the most authoritative. How do the Jews count, reckon or list the Ten Commandments?

MICHAEL IVOR

Phoenix, Ariz.

P: In the Jewish tradition the opening statement (Exodus 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6) of the Lord who brought the Israelites out of Egypt is considered to be the first of the Commandments. The command to worship no other gods and the prohibition of graven images are lumped into the second. From the third through the tenth, the numbering used by the Jews and most Protestants is the same.--ED.

On Britannica

Sir:

The E.B.F. story [April 29] is the best single piece of reporting on the activities of the film company that I have ever seen. Needless to say, there is a lot of mileage yet to be covered before the audio-visual field has penetrated as deeply into education as it should.

MAURICE B. MITCHELL

President

Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc. Wilmette, Ill.

Thoughts for the Smoker

Sir:

Re your article "Making Cigarettes Safe" [April 22]: Has Researcher Wynder tried ethyl alcohol (possibly in the form of bourbon or Scotch) for extracting the natural waxes from the tobacco leaf? One could have a smoke and a drink all in one and eliminate the need for the hip flask.

R. AFFLECK

London

Sir:

I, a layman, suggest that both smoking and cancer are the outcome of worry in the same way that ulcers and mental upsets are.

JOHN R. BOWLES

Maidenhead, England

Sir:

There is too much concern for the smoker and not enough concern for his innocent victims. Besides being an almost unavoidable annoyance to nonsmokers, he is obviously a deadly contaminator of the air they have to breathe.

A. E. GREEN

Borham, Sask.

Nightmare

SIR:

YOR DRIM KUM TRU (TIME, MAY 6) IS HAP-IEST ITM UV KWOTED IN YERS.

ROBERT V. HEATH

BOSTON

Sir:

Is this plan any better than what is being done today by advertisers?

STEPHEN C. SPILKY

Brooklyn

Sir:

I hop ce drim wil kum tru. Ma I mak a sugesion? Abolish ce artikls. As a foriner, ce hardest cing in English to lern is ce usage of ce's and a's.

CHONG-SIK LEE

Los Angeles

Sir:

The phonetic bit was originally the natural brain child of a bored naval officer sitting out World War II at a West Coast naval station.

Appearing first in Astounding Science Fiction in 1946 as "Meihem In Ce Klasrum" by Dolton Edwards and later in condensed form in Reader's Digest, the manuscript was recently (March 5) acquired for reprinting in Science World.

Now that this durable doodle has been TiMEhonored, I can reveal the identity of Dolton Edwards as

W. E. LESSING

Waco, Texas

> TIM wok up skriming.--ED.

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