Man of the Year
Sir: Jack Kennedy, our President.
A. KUPIDLOWSKI Stonington, Conn.
Sir: Your nomination should be a composite man. Whether he had been involved in the shooting at Sharpeville, the Congo, Algeria, or Nigeria the world has at last begun to take notice of "The African Man." His emergence on the world scene is not only the event of the year but the touchstone of this new decade.
D.C. DE LA POER BERESFORD Melbourne, Australia
Sir: Dag Hammarskjold's defiance of the leader of the "East Side Rocket Gang"—Khrushchev—prompts me to nominate the valiant Swede.
E. A. BINNEY Preston, England
Sir: I suggest the Big Five of neutralism—U.A.R.'s Nasser, India's Nehru, Ghana's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno and Yugoslavia's Tito as Men of the Year.
MELKON GERARD DJIZMEDJIAN Cairo
Sir: There can only be one choice: Ship's Cook Brian Quinn. He led Soviet Seaman Victor Jaanimets to freedom.
ROBERT M. SHEERIN Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat, France
Winners & Losers
Sir: Well, we survived Truman.
WILLIAM R. LINDLEY Tacoma, Wash.
Sir: Now that Flopsy and Mopsy are in the White House, nobody's carats will be safe.
WILLIAM F. MARTZ Detroit
Sir: Nixon could "stand up to Mr. K.," but not a home-grown Mr. K.
FRANCIS LYNCH Los Angeles
Sir: John F. Kennedy, a brilliant young man with plan and purpose, won the people. This country needs his winning ways. May he now make ours a winning country.
JOSEPH J. HUTTIE Bethlehem, Pa.
Sir: Will Walter Reuther move into the White House or use it only as a business address?
RUSSELL E. ABEL Dallas
Sir: I found it highly significant that Kennedy was on the Nov. 7 cover, while Nixon occupied it the preceding week. I'm a Republican and saw the handwriting on the wall with your Nov. 7 issue, but still voted for Nixon. Thanks for good and impartial coverage on the elections.
EILEEN MCKENNA Syosset, N.Y.
Thought you'd be interested in the enclosed picture [see cut]. Sort of "something for everybody."
DAN O'CALLAHAN Peekskill, N.Y.
Sir: Now that he is out of work, I suggest the French people elect Eisenhower to replace De Gaulle and end the Algerian war.
ROBERT TIPTON Monroe, Me.
Sir: With all the recent harping on the "youth" of the candidates, perhaps the nation's employers will now cease considering "over 40" as synonymous with "senility."
F. H. NORMAN CARTER New York City
Sir: I am glad Mr. Kennedy won—if for no other reason than to give proof positive that we are a tolerant people. This should lay low, once and for all, the hue and cry that Protestants are a bigoted and intolerant lot of people.
CORNELIUS NICHOLAS BARKER Minister The Manasseh Cutler Church (Congregational) Hamilton, Mass.
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