Letters, Feb. 22, 1960

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Your report that Hubert Humphrey's father was converted to the Democratic Party after hearing William Jennings Bryan speak reminded me of another such incident.

As a local official of the Democratic Party in Phoenix, Ariz, many years ago, my father had to spend an entire day listening to Bryan's oratory. A few months later he became a Republican, and has remained one ever since.

JOHN W. WILLES

Washington

Sir:

Hubert Humphrey's fine ability to orate is only overshadowed by his innate ability to ad-lib in embarrassing situations. I am reminded of a dinner a few years ago where Humphrey was slated to be the speaker and was one hour late because of some last-minute campaigning. I, acting as emcee, introduced the Senator and remarked about his lack of punctuality. Humphrey rose and stated: "I would rather be Hubert Humphrey late than the late Hubert Humphrey!"

BERNARD SINGER

Minneapolis

Bible Class

Sir:

We were much interested in the report "Revelation and Education" [Feb. 1], relating to the centennial of Wheaton College. But the term Bible college is used in a technical sense to refer to those institutions of higher learning which major in Biblical studies, and carry the name Bible in their title, such as Columbia Bible College, S.C.

Wheaton has always been a standard liberal-arts college in the fully accepted sense of that word, and is accredited by the standard agencies. We do believe the Bible to be the Word of the Living God, and that may constitute us a "Bible" college.

V. R. EDMAN President Wheaton College Wheaton, Ill.

Matter of Choice

Sir:

This ex-newspaperman was unhappy to find his svelte 191½ Ibs. described as portly and—to add insult to injury—that his years of covering courts and police beats have now made him into an amateur, according to your story on coverage of the Finch murder trial (Feb. 1].

Please, dear TIME, even if you must detest us who have deserted you for the movies, and even if the rewards of our full life make us look portly in your eyes, do not stigmatize us as amateurs.

ALBERT ZUGSMITH

Universal City, Calif.

Sir:

The writer in attendance at the Finch murder trial may be Max (I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf) Shulman, Arnold (A Hole in the Head) Schulman, or even possibly Irving (The Amboy Dukes) Shulman.

Do we have a choice?

ROGER PERRY

Omaha Max doesn't think so.—ED.

Whose Rights?

Sir:

Your article concerning the case of Dr. Abel Leader and the medical society [Feb. 1] is interesting. Dr. Leader, incidentally, espoused a cause that is by no means democratic and reasonable, for imagine those people who have confidence and who depend emotionally on their personal physician and who will be told in the future that they cannot have their practicing physician's care in the hospital but must accept a "university oriented," "career-type" doctor. Doesn't it occur to anybody that the patient has certain rights too?

GEORGE VASH, M.D.

Lonaconing, Md.

Sir: