The Birds
Sir: Your story on Bauer and Baltimore [Sept. 11] was especially well written and highly interesting. However, instead of saying "Finley runs his ball club like a child playing with a Roger Maris Baseball Game," you should have given him credit for playing the best—the "Big-League Manager Baseball Game" of Duluth, Minn.
KEITH T. HENRICKSEN Publisher All Sports Digest Duluth
Sir: In 1958, Hank Bauer's middle name should have been "Hustle." Maybe he wasn't a DiMaggio, but he could get to a line drive pretty darned fast and still make it look easy. He played a good rightfield, and at Yankee Stadium that isn't easy. He was a pretty good man in the clutch too. Many was the time he would literally bend over backward or fall into the seats in right to catch aspiring homers. It's a great pennant race this year. I'd like to wish Hank Bauer luck, but since I'm still a Yankee fan, I can't and won't. He never relied on it before; he won't now.
HALTON MANN Andover, Mass.
Sir: Why not the Phillies' Gene Mauch on TIME'S cover? You're a bunch of New York fish-cake finks!
EDYTHE HURFORD Roslyn, Pa.
Sir: Wouldn't you know—I just recently let my subscription to TIME expire and you publish this wonderful article on Hank Bauer. Being an avid Oriole fan, a native Baltimorean, and knowing that Mr. Marsh Clark is an alumnus of St. James School made this article even more interesting to me. You can be sure that I shall renew my subscription immediately.
HELEN O. LOUDEN Baltimore
Democrats' Choice
Sir: President Lyndon Johnson was wise in his selection of the Minnesotan for the vice-presidential spot [Sept. 4]; he put the awesome responsibility in the hands of a man who sees the problems of this age not as group against group, race against race, section against section, but rather, and more correctly, as stability v. extremism.
ROZELL LEAVELL Los Angeles
Sir: All I can say is that Humphrey must be a really good man to get the vice-presidential nomination. It's a relief, in a way, to be able to appraise a man for his worth, not his wealth.
MARCELLA M. HENRY Clifton, N.J.
Sir: Past and passé do-goodies such as Eleanor, Chester and Soapy pale before the chubby-cheeked dynamo that is Horatio. Mr. and Mrs. Citizen must be taught in no uncertain terms that this Fabian gab-bag, one uncertain heartbeat from the White House, is the farthest out since F.D.R. tabbed Henry Wallace.
ROBERT GARY BYERLY Long Beach, Calif.
Sir: Certain programs of the Democratic Administration are those that not only allow but encourage social irresponsibility. The major programs of this sort are the war on poverty, medicare, and the beefing up of the Social Security plan. These new tacks on old New Deal programs can all be lumped under one heading: "Fresh meat for trie ravening wolves of society." For heaven's sake, let me and the people of the U.S. stand on our own two feet.
MARTIN J. COTE Pontiac, Mich.
Sir: The Democrats have argued that Goldwater might cause war and have placed peace as their prime objective. I agree that war is a terrible thing, but should we place peace above freedom?
ROBERT STALEY Ironton, Ohio