Man of the Year?
Sir:
Whether we like it or not—and about 56% of us do like it—the Man of the Year problem was definitely settled on Nov. 4th. Any man who can successfully battle greed, corruption, disloyalty and incompetence of 20 years' entrenchment deserves without question such an honor . . . Need I add, it is Eisenhower?
ERNEST A. STIFEL Wheeling, W. Va.
Sir:
I suppose you will have many readers who will be nominating Eisenhower for Man of the Year. Please, please, TIME, do not be premature and thrust world greatness on him for this year; his job only begins next January . . .
ETHEL MORISON Melbourne, Australia
Sir:
. . . General Naguib, the man who threw out Farouk. No man has done so much to rid part of the world of corruption . . .
GARY OWEN Worthing, Sussex, England
Sir:
. . . I am inclined to suggest the Senator from Delaware, John Williams . . .
R. SWAIN Los Angeles
Sir:
. . . Senator-elect John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
JAMES P. MCCREADY Lowell, Mass.
Sir:
If permissible, may I nominate . . . Mr. John Voter, who so courageously and correctly declared himself in no uncertain terms to save our country from four more years of misrule . . .
FULTON THOMPSON Jackson, Miss.
From the Pyrenees
Sir:
Your article "The Embattled Basques," published Sept. 22 (saved from censorship by an oversight), has been read by a vast number of Basques, since copies of the article were passed from hand to hand. We wish to congratulate you for so truthful an article, and to express to you our gratefulness, for, since we live under an oppressive dictatorship with a controlled one-party press, this article has given us new hope that we are not unknown . . .
It is painful for us not to be able to stamp our signatures on this letter, but, if we should, it would mean sure imprisonment. This is the way of life of the Basques under Franco, as is the life of the Russians under the tyranny of Stalin,
We are mailing this letter from our neighboring country, for, if it were mailed here, it would fall into the hands of the censor.
OPPRESSED BASQUES Saint-Jean-de-Luz Basses-Pyrénées
Cuisine, etc.
Sir:
That jambalaya thing in your Nov. 10 Letters column. I have GOT to know. What are "chorizos?"
W. G. PIPPITT Pasadena, Calif.
> Spanish pork sausages, supercharged with cayenne pepper, paprika and garlic.—ED.
Home Life of a Tycoon
Sir:
I am appalled! . . . Your Nov. 10 article ... on top California executives and their jobs stuns me. Hard work is admirable. Long working hours, business dinners and homework are often necessary, profitable and understandable. But not when other factors, important in their own way, must be sacrificed. Are these men so selfish that they can go merrily on their way, content in their way of life while their wives are unhappy? These executives didn't marry for love and companionship; they wanted only topnotch housekeepers, who are supposed to run the house, manage the servants, raise the children in a proper fashion, dress well, be good hostesses, and present themselves to the world as happy little women . . .