The Partisans
Sir:
Although Jack Kennedy (my namesake) and I are Catholics, he cannot have my vote I believe Mr. Kennedy placed his political ambitions above principle in accepting the Democrats' platform, concocted, in most part, by radicals bent on bankrupting the Government, enslaving our citizens and destroying our American way of life.
J. F. KENNEDY Royal Oak, Mich.
Sir:
Everyone is up in arms over John Kennedy's being a Roman Catholic.
Frankly, I thought the Republican Convention had the overtones and moral facade of a Southern Baptist revival meeting. The Republican Party's passing themselves off as the party with high moral Christian standards is getting sickening. Mr. Nixon, Mr. Rockefeller and Dr. Judd, to name a few, with their Protestant backgrounds, are just as fast at mud-slinging as the next politician.
MRS. DAVID BIRDSONG
Lansing, Mich. Sir:
My prediction for November (It's essentially my prayer) Is Nixon by a nose Not Kennedy by a hair!
MRS. WARREN R. WHITEHEAD Menlo Park, Calif.
Sir:
I do not say that those who denounce Kennedy for President are doing so merely because of his religion. I do say that his religion is considered his downfall by many. This is blinding people to the Senator's great intelligence, sincerity, confidence and spirit, all of which are essential, making him the ideal man to win the election.
NANCI D. HALE Lawrence, Mass.
Sir:
Nixon would be far more than a great President—he would be a living example for American teen-agers of what can yet be done in this land of democracy if one tries.
CHARLES C. LOWTHER Detroit
More About Mort
Sir:
Those of us in the provinces thirsty for More About Mort appreciate your cover story; you could have covered the subject more thoroughly. Like in the entire issue.
PATRICIA METHENY Tulsa, Okla.
Sir:
Congratulations and all that jazz to TIME on a real gasser of a story on that chick-loving weirdo I dig, that bug, Mort Sahl. "Wild, huh?"
ROBERTA THALER Reseda, Calif.
Sir:
Too bad! The repulsive cover would have been delightful in French: Sahl Mort.
KELLY ARCHER Kingsport, Tenn.
Sir:
Morton's Sahlty comments suggest that when id reigns, id bores.
GERALD J. WEIPERT Detroit
Sir:
Sahl is the embodiment of the cynicism, moral decay, and retreat from responsibility which currently infect this great land.
TIM TERRY San Marino, Calif.
Sir:
Mort Sahl is a true subversive. He is advocating the overthrow of the Government by "farce," which he may do if Washington doesn't beat him to it.
FRED L. NIEMANN
Cambridge, Mass.
Spellbound
Sir:
Anyone so fortunate as to receive mention in TIME should, perhaps, salaam three times to the east and praise Allah from whom all blessings flow. This I humbly do.