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These executives are not merely ambitious. They are selfish, inconsiderate, injudicious. Nothing is more important than their work (which is in essence themselves) . . . They are extreme egoists . . . Congratulations to the women who left their top executive husbands . . .
MRS. KENNETH R. DECELLES Medford, Mass.
Room for Improvement
Sir:
I read with a great deal of interest your Nov. 10 article about the Meditation Room which has recently been opened in the General Assembly building of the United Nations headquarters. It is amazing to note, at a time when we and all Christian nations are calling upon God for guidance, that in a room set apart ostensibly for religious meditation, there is nothing . . . suggestive of religion . . .
HENRY W. DORSEY New Orleans
Sir:
We in the Laymen's Movement, who have worked since 1946 for a room for prayer or meditation in the United Nations, are delighted with [it]. Your reporter seemed a bit let down . . .
There are symbols in this present room, if one uses his imagination. The 300-year-old agba log from French Equatorial Africa is a symbol of man's dependence upon God for his material wellbeing. The spotlight focused on a bowl of white flowers is a symbol of the light of God by which the peace of the world will come. For some, the break in front of the entrance is a defense against evil spirits, who travel in straight lines and cannot, therefore, go around the corner to enter this room. The ten lights in the ceiling are symbolic of the Ten Commandments representing God's moral law . . .
WEYMAN C. HUCKABEE Secretary
The Laymen's Movement New York City
A Question of Credentials
Sir:
Your Nov. 10 report on the SS meeting in Verden, Germany, addressed by ex-Paratrooper General "Papa" Ramcke, reminded me of the circumstances of his capture by our 13th Regiment of the 8th Division . . . on Sept. 19, 1944. Word was received that General Ramcke desired to surrender. He and his staff were in a bunker 75 feet underground, on the Crozon Peninsula outside Brest . . . At 1830 hours, Brigadier General Charles D. W. Canham . . . appeared to accept surrender. Very haughtily, Ramcke demanded of Canham his credentials. Canham pointed to the accompanying Tommy-gun and BAR men and replied: "These are my credentials."
Interestingly enough, General Canham, jumping in this year's Texas maneuvers with the 82nd Airborne, was called "The Jumping Grandpa". . .
L. L. DAVIS Florham Park, NJ.
The Eggheads
Sir:
I heartily share your joy over the election results. It was made even more gratifying because of the failure of the egghead rebellion—especially those Hollywoodians who didn't have the fortitude to deny Communist affiliation . . .
C. H. BROWN JR. Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. Greenville, SC.
Sir:
Although the shape of my own cranium is regrettably average and inconspicuous, I object strongly to your repeated derogatory use of the term, egghead . . .
(MRS.) VAL REICHENTHAL Mayfield, N.Y.
Sir:
Hooray for the term eggheadery for New York's ingrown intellectuals! I have long thought that the wordy inhabitants of Greenwich Village's print-bedecked apartments had little to do with anything . . .