Letters, may 30, 1955

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... It occurs to me that, along with Liverpudlians and Glaswegians, there must also exist in the world those whom TIME would call Aixioms, Beiruters, Timbuktutus and Zanzibarbarians.

MARTHA BARKOFF

New Orleans

—I How about: Nomebodies, Ogdeni-zens, Berlinmates, Oslocals, Praguematics, Warsawfuls or Honolululus?—ED.

Vaccine Crisis

SIR:

APPRECIATED YOUR OBJECTIVE REPORTING ON "VACCINE CRISIS." TIME WISELY ADVISED AWAITING THE FINAL VERDICT. TIME'S FOOT SLIPPED, THOUGH, ON STATING THAT IN ADDITION TO SHIPPING VACCINE FOR FOUNDATION, CUTTER "WAS ONE OF THOSE THAT HAD SHIPPED OUT A FEW THOUSAND DOSES ... AS A 'COME-ON' TO WIN DOCTORS' GOOD WILL" . . . ALL COMMERCIAL SHIPMENTS WERE MADE AFTER NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RELEASE TO CUTTER REGIONAL OFFICES EXACTLY IN LINE WITH THEIR PERCENTAGE OF OUR SALES OF PEDIATRIC IMMUNIZING AGENTS LAST YEAR. THEY IN TURN FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS TO SHIP TO WHOLESALE AND PRESCRIPTION PHARMACIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR PREVIOUS CALL FOR OUR PEDIATRIC IMMUNIZING AGENTS. STILL BELIEVE THIS ONLY METHOD FOR INSURING FAIR DISTRIBUTION TO PEDIATRICIANS AND GENERAL PRACTITIONERS WHO HAVE DEPENDED ON CUTTER IMMUNIZING AGENTS. DOCTORS WHO KNOW OF OUR METHOD OF ALLOCATION BELIEVE IT WAS PROPER . . .

F. A. CUTTER —CUTTER LABORATORIES BERKELEY, CALIF.

Billy Graham's Big Show

Sir:

J. B. Priestley has the audacity to attack Billy Graham, America, and his own British public [May 9]. Never have I seen such an illogical and prejudiced article ... It seems that Mr. Priestley puts himself up as the master psychologist when he says so bluntly, "The reason for Billy's success is not Britons' hunger for religion, but their hunger for a show." I would like to ask Mr. Priestley if he took the time or effort to interview those who attended the campaigns, and especially those who made decisions ... I happen to be one of those who made my decision during one of Graham's campaigns . . .

MAURICE HANNA

Beirut, Lebanon Sir: I am still chuckling at Priestley's comments . . . John Boynton Priestley and I went to different schools in Bradford, Yorkshire ; you know, where the pudding comes from. His evaluation of all that religious conversion is as correct as it is shrewd and witty. I, too, know the "hunger for a show" of the British people—and why confine it to the British anyway? As for that Irish newspaper which said that Billy had taken Ireland by storm even in absentia: phooey! MAUD CHEGWIDDEN San Francisco Sir: If Graham goes for orange juice, the unpriestly Priestley is steeped in dill-pickle juice. This cynic is not one of those Britons whose minds "are wide open as well as being empty." His mind, though empty, is closed.

DAVE MACPHERSO. Long Beach, Calif.

The Race Is Not to the Swift

Sir:

Your May 9 story of Frank Swift is inspiring in these times when being voluntarily unemployed is looked upon virtually as a crime (even in the case of so-called emancipated women). I have been trying to avoid steady, secure employment (which is very boring) for many years, and I hope I am as successful at it as Frank has been.

BETTINA SCHUTT University Park, Pa.

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