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Your education section's "Wanted: Prestige" [Feb. 24] might have reported that [retiring] President Schmitz did not bar Dr. Oppenheimer from speaking at the University of Washington in 1955 or any other time. Indeed, Dr. Oppenheimer did appear at the university in 1956, a fact about which TIME was strangely silent.
DONALD K. ANDERSON University of Washington Seattle
¶ Said Dr. Schmitz in 1955: "My decision not to invite Dr. Oppenheimer to lecture on the university's Washington campus was reached only after long and careful study ... I do not plan to reconsider it." After the resulting storm of criticism, the university in 1956 welcomed Oppenheimer to a campus gathering of international physicists.—ED.
The Author on the Couch
Sir:
It is very heartening to read [March 3] that Tennessee Williams is taking psychoanalytic treatment, but judging from the first excited oversimplifications, such as "Evil is merely a sickness—a psychic distortion," there are many tinny rationalizations prancing around on the roof of Mr. Williams' intellect which need to be separated from the psychic cats before the doctor's fat fee can be tabulated.
R. A. NICKLAUS Washington, D.C.
Sin, Science & Peanuts
Sir:
In your March 3 issue, a striking contrast could be noted: Missile Expert Wernher von Braun earns $16,000 yearly; Comic Strip Artist Charlie (Peanuts) Schulz, who "somehow graduated from high school after flunking algebra, Latin, English, physics," makes a whopping $90,000 a year.
MRS. WM. T. RILEY
Cohoes, N.Y.
Sir:
Compare Dr. von Braun's salary of $16,000 a year with the average annual income of $20,000 of a call girl (as noted in your March 3 Medicine story).
PAUL F. LUDER Managua, Nicaragua
The Drinking Set
Sir:
In the Jan. 13 issue you referred to our cocktail lounge as a "dive just outside Los Angeles." We are the owners of the Beacon Cafe and we're pretty damn mad! We have one of the nicest, cleanest family bars in Inglewood, and our patrons are mad about this statement also.
JOE AND HELEN NAYMOLA
Inglewood, Calif.
¶ TIME agrees with Readers Naymola and their satisfied patrons that a man's own friendly neighborhood bar is never a dive.—ED.