Letters, Oct. 25, 1954

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Sir: Yale's trenchant Dr. Griswold warmed the hearts of 15 Gonzaga University students when he "rued the passing of the lively art of conversation" [TIME, Oct. 4]. Tired of the unanswerable tyranny of television and the lecture hall, we formed a club two years ago for the express purpose of reviving the lost art with a bit more finesse than the average campus bull session. Since then we have managed to do a great deal of talking on subjects ranging from McCarthyism to the meaning of a liberal education. We feel certain that our conversations have given us a firmer grasp of "what higher education is all about" . . .

KEITH McDuFFiE Kennewick, Wash.

Whodunit

Sir: "At 316.67, it [the Dow-Jones industrial average] was only 20 points below the all-time high of 381.17 in September 1929" I TIME, Oct. 4]. Whodunit, TIME'S statisticians or proofreaders?

A. C. MASON

St. Louis

TIME'S copyreader figured a switch when she should have switched a figure. It should have read 361.67.—ED.

Cooking with Hashish

Sir: ... I recognize the Alice B. Toklas hashish fudge [TIME, Oct. 4] as my own Huxleyan rendering of experience . . . The fudge, known as "majoon" in Morocco, is sometimes served with hot mint tea at the end of an Arab feast, instead of alcohol, which is considered sinful. In any case, to paraphrase the only other really famous cookbook, "First catch your cannabis saliva."

BRION GYSIN

Tangier, Morocco

Grimm Victory

Sir: Reader Grimm [TIME, Sept. 27] is entirely right. Indeed, I have been a little surprised that nobody else noticed the implications in the script of High and Dry. The satire was not buried very deep.

I would be sad, however, if he thought there was malicious intent. Does it help to point out that Bill Rose, who wrote the screenplay, is, like myself, an American, though both of us have spent a good many years in Britain? We saw the story very much from the viewpoint of the American . . . The savagely unfair way in which the American is treated, the sly insult added to injury and the ultimate indignity of being expected to feel that he is somehow "morally" in the wrong were part of the flavour of the joke. A touch of vinegar to keep the thing from getting too saccharine . . .

ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK-London

^{-Publicist Kaghan was asked to resign as deputy director of
the U.S. High Commissioner's Public Affairs Division in Germany, five
weeks after tagging McCarthy-Committee Staffers Cohn and Schine
"junketeering gumshoes." -Director of High and Dry.}