Designs for Living

SIR:

THANKS TO TIME NOV. 4 FOR SHOWING TO THE WORLD THAT DETROIT STYLIST WALKER DOES CARRY IN HIS PRIVATE LIFE ALL THE ARTISTIC NICETIES THAT SHOW IN THE AUTOMOBILES HE

DESIGNS.

DORIS LILLY

NEW YORK CITY

Sir:

After reading the nonsense surrounding Messrs. Walker, Exner and Earl's activities, I thank providence for such small favors as the Volkswagen.

LEO TOCH

Flushing, N.Y.

Sir:

If a silk embroidered cowboy shirt and a black imported dog reflect the deep thinking of automotive stylists, we can readily understand why the results seen on the American road are as they are.

ALLAN H. DEAL BRUCE M. WARNER Berkeley, Calif.

Sir:

Ford's "Cellini of chrome" might better be called the Elvis Presley of the automotive industry. His conception of what the buying public wants is insulting, especially to us women. Certainly we are conscious of style, but within the bounds of good taste and good value. Mr. George Walker's hillbilly notions do not meet these requirements; there is altogether too much emphasis on style and too little on quality and performance. We want to drive the 1958 models, not wear them.

DOROTHY C. PIPER

Brookline, Mass.

Bad Habits

Sir:

I read your cryptic but perceptive Oct. 28 review of Monica Baldwin's The Called and the Chosen. I would like to express a few deep-rooted convictions on these notorious "ex-nuns" and "ex-priests" who, through some psychological guilt complex, delight in tearing to shreds the consecrated cloisters and convents they had no right to enter in the first place. As an ex-nun, I am thoroughly aware that anyone can make a mistake about his or her vocation in life. But why, in Heaven's name, do so many feel impelled to take up a poisoned pen and spit out their venom for the curious and unbelieving to scoff at and ridicule? I am sure that the God who gave Miss Baldwin the talent to write must be wide-eyed with pleasure at the results. He might also be tempted to suddenly appear in human form and ask for Author Baldwin's autograph.

CATHERINE C. MYERS Media, Pa.

The Friendly Visitors

Sir'

My hat is off to TIME for its polished reportage on the U.S. visit of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The visit itself and articles such as yours help to bring a "strengthening of the British-American friendship ties" which the Queen referred to at the President's banquet.

FRED GRICMAN Montreal

Sir:

I was amazed that you left out the fact that Prince Philip received the first three years of his schooling in an American school at Saint Cloud, near Paris. Here he learned about George Washington long before he knew anything about George1111 and played baseball before he ever heard of cricket. "Those days in the MacJannet Country School," Prince Philip told me, "were the happiest of my life." The enclosed picture [see cut] shows Philip at the school in the fall of 1929.

DONALD R. MACJANNET

Geneva

The Senator & '60

Sir:

Are you trying to cram Senator Kennedy down our throats via your Oct. 28 issue? His Jackson, Miss, speech doesn't make him President nor does his swimming (via TV's Navy Log) make him a hero.

ROGER S. DARLING Washington

Sir:

It would appear that Senator Kennedy is making a real bid for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. He has had a fine congressional record and also a fine World War 11 record. His faith, Roman Catholic, may be a liability, but if he is the Democrats' nominee, he won't have the same trouble in this matter as Alfred Smith did in 1928.

F. J. MILLER Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Sir:

How courageous of Senator Kennedy (a Democrat) to go to a Democrats' dinner and give a political speech. And then to get applause when he mentioned the honorable names of Eisenhower and Nixon. My ! What show of courage. Heaven forbid we should ever get a socialite as President.

MRS. ELEANOR ERHARDT Seekonk, Mass.

Sir:

I hasten to point out that Senator Kennedy sidestepped completely my question as to what his views on integration are. His saying he accepted the Supreme Court decision as the law of the land did not answer the question. Furthermore, his challenging me to give my views on Eisenhower and Nixon shows clearly his attempt to evade the issue, because in the same news story containing my question to him was a statement reporting that I had denounced the President's actions on integration.

WIRT A. YERGER JR. Chairman

Mississippi Republican Party Jackson, Miss.

Sir:

I am glad you wrote that "a slightly tipsy young Democrat" told Kennedy all the Baptists and Methodists are going to vote for him. I did not hear Senator Kennedy, but I have several Baptist friends who did, and they most emphatically are not going to vote for him--neither am I.

MRS. ERIN G. EWING

Jackson, Miss.

Sir:

Did Senator Kennedy speak to a segregated audience, or did Senator Eastland sit in an integrated one?

DORIS SMITH South Bend, Ind.

P:Segregated.--ED.

Capitalist Manifesto

Sir:

I applaud your cosponsorship of and the Oct. 28 report on the International Industrial Development Conference. The theme, "Investment--the Key to Industrial Development," is effective when geared to existing conditions. A condition existing in India, for example, is lots of factories and labor, both with much idle time. Recent investments have overexpanded some industries. Subsequent well-intentioned but often misguided protective import-and domestic-trade restrictions have raised costs, reduced buying and caused more idleness. How about a future conference on "Investment for Market Development?"

LINCOLN CLARK New York City

Sir:

Congratulations on the very successful organization of the I.I.D.C. in San Francisco. TIME describes me in its report as a capitalist. A capitalist is one who possesses capital. Now I have none, having for 16 years worked for a capitalist organization (don't we all?) and spent every rupee of my salary. Nor do I believe in undiluted capitalism for India, but in a mixed economy not unlike that which even the U.S. practices. Isn't it time we realized that the line of battle in the world today is drawn not between the capitalist and socialist but between the democrat and the totalitarian Communist ?

M. R. MASANI

New York City

Sir:

The opportunity for the economic betterment of mankind and the profit potential for private investors through a boom in foreign investment seem almost limitless. Congratulations on backing a much-needed conference.

THOMAS A. HUNTER

Albion, Mich.

Sir:

You filled your Oct. 28 issue with live examples of the "Capitalist Challenge." What greater contrast can you offer than West Germany and Ludwig Erhard as free enterprise and France and Socialist strangulation? It looks as if your report should be made available to all politicians who would sell their heritage for a mess of pottage.

JAMES D. TILFORD JR. Palm Beach Shores, Fla.

Booming Bulwark

Sir:

Cheers for a nation which, ruined in 1945, can now double our annual gross national product increase rate. Erhard and Adenauer certainly should be applauded for making West Germany's Marktwirtschaft stand today as the strongest European bulwark against socialist pressures.

JIM KILGORE

Wooster, Ohio

Sir:

After reading your fascinating Oct. 28 article, I suggest we import Erhard, Vocke and Schaffer and teach our administrators how to do things.

WALTER E. GREEN Sarasota, Fla.

Sir:

Probably many people have already told you that your article was an extremely fair and penetrating judgment of Professor Erhard's achievements. It gives a complete answer to the one question Americans have most regularly asked me. "What happened to all our taxpayers' money in Germany?" Your story is the best possible confirmation that the Marshall Plan was an investment in West Germany. The U.S. furnished the seed, Erhard tilled the soil and planted it; the cold war provided the hothouse atmosphere; the German people are bringing in the harvest. H. E. REISNER Publisher Made, in Europe Frankfurt, West Germany

Sir:

Perhaps our inflation would be less if American classifications were revised so that professor would rate higher than tavern keeper or coach.

JOHN BRADY Detroit

Sir:

Erhard's miracle was accomplished by the laboring man, slaving away at wages almost the lowest in Western Europe. The German union movement, crushed under Hitler, is only now beginnnig to awaken. Let us see what the industrialists can accomplish if they give the average German a living wage.

L. BECKMAN Los Angeles

Sir:

The explanation of the so-called miracle of West Germany's economic and political recovery is simply discipline, intelligence and hard work.

U. GRANT SMITH Washington

Sitting Bird Watchers

Sir:

You say Elizabeth and Philip presented the Eisenhowers with a pair of American parula warblers sculptured in porcelain. Can it be that the Eisenhowers are bird watchers and that these warblers are their favorites? Incidentally, we never see the parula around here. Probably because of the absence of usnea moss, with which it pins up its little basketlike nest with its side entrance. I used to see them in such nests in the swamps down South.

R. M. GRINDLE Kenduskeag, Me.

P: Ike and Mamie enjoy watching birds from their porch at Gettysburg, but they don't go hiking in search of them. --Ed.

Incident at Sasebo

Sir:

Just read "Tough Discipline" in your Oct. 28 issue. I am the mother of one growing son. If his fate would be similar to that of Navy Fireman Paul Basom, Seaman Jeffrey Cohee, Gordon L. Dell and others, my prayer is that he dies before he reaches the age to serve his country under such discipline enforcers. At the time of the court-martial for Sergeant Barbuti, I hope court officials remember that similar treatment to her boy in the hands of the enemy may bring a mother sorrow but also pride; coming from the men of the same country can only leave an eternal wound in her heart deep enough to wish she had not given birth to her son. Come on gentlemen, let's clean up our armed forces of such sadistic madmen.

DESPINA FOSTER

Arlington, Va.

Sir:

As a Navy wife and prospective Navy mother, my blood runs cold to think the men in my family could possibly be "disciplined" by a species of animal called the U.S. marine.

MRS. C. EVANS

Norfolk, Va.

Sir:

The Marine Corps taught me a great deal in the Pacific and in Japan, but they never trained me to be brutal, sadistic or cruel. The corps is not guilty because of Sergeant Barbuti's actions; he is unfit to be a Marine for being inhumane and for being a coward.

D. J. MAYER Portland, Ore.

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