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Dedham, Mass.
Sir:
Girard can be thankful his case became a political football, that Judge Kawachi didn't fumble. Let us hope the Japanese people understand there are many in this country who are amazed at the decision.
HAL HOBSON
Oakland, Calif.
Les Girls
Sir:
You were mistaken in saying that Painter Marcia Marx Bennett was the first woman to hold a one-artist show at the Institute
National de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Babette Kornblith of Chicago had a solo show of sensitive, serious works there last February—which precedes "Marx" by eight months. Please correct your error before my grandmother, Babette Kornblith, returns from her successful one-woman show at the Andre Weil Gallery in Paris.
BABETTE HESS
Glencoe, Ill.
Fashions in Rome
Sir:
On the subject of clothes, Pope Pius XII says that though the cut be modest, the cloth "may be guilty of excessive luxury, which is an offense to the spirit of those who labor and toil." What would he call the brocades, velvets and occasionally ermine that he and other church dignitaries wear?
ELIZABETH MUNN
Buffalo
Sir:
Dior's successor should have been that self-appointed fashion expert—the Pope. CHARLES H. CLARK
Glens Falls, N.Y.
California Politics
Sir:
Nixon and Knowland have swallowed the canary, but they may not find it as digestible as you imply. Knowland's "powerful friends" do not include all the Republican voters of California, and I would not be surprised to see the state go Democratic mainly because of the smugness of those two.
HELEN RICKABAUGH
Lakeport, Calif.
Sir:
Nixon has just carved a California turkey, scooping up all the white meat and dressing for himself, while meagerly serving Emperor Knowland a wishbone and Court Jester Knight a wing and a prayer.
K. TILLSON San Francisco
Independence Granted
Sir:
Concerning your article "The Reluctant Potentate": Axel Springer owns only 26% of the shares of the Ullstein Company. Since Springer has granted the absolute independence of our papers, your statement that "Springer has already swallowed up almost half of the Ullstein papers" is incorrect.
KARL ULLSTEIN
Berlin
¶TIME concedes the editorial independence of the Ullstein papers but, as Reader Ullstein points out, it is Stockholder Springer who permits it.—ED.
Without Nonsense
Sir:
Thanks for "The No-Nonsense Kids." Ycu said a lot of things I have been groping to put into words for some time.
CHARLES ADKINS
Vice President
Wheaton College
Norton, Mass.
Sir:
I was quoted as advising college students never to take any stand that looks heroic, and never to show the intensity of one's beliefs. The quote was incomplete, and did not make plain that I was satirizing all such apathetic attitudes. Not until college students learn how to argue, deeply wonder, and be passionately concerned will America produce a really great culture.
PETE GUNTER
The University of Texas
Austin, Texas
Sir: