The Press & the President
Sir:
You are only proving that Democrats are right in tabbing the press Republican when you criticize the press for speaking favorably of the incoming Administration. When newspapers and magazines try to unite the country under its leaders, why counteract this attempt by turning it into a post-election political maneuver?
PAUL PILLAR Livonia, Mich.
Sir:
You quote Columnist Alsop: "After years of supineness, therefore, the American Government will now have to spring into sudden, vigorous, often risky action . . ." Brinkmanship, maybe?
ROGER M. WHITMAN Napa, Calif.
Sir:
So now Walter Lippmann has changed his attitude and thinks we should move slowly to the New Frontier as Mr. Kennedy needs time to get organized, etc. Is not this the "on-the-job training" that we were warned of during the campaign?
J. R. BROWN Mar Vista, Calif.
Sir:
I sincerely hope President Kennedy will stand on his Inaugural speech rather than on the Democratic platform.
W. M. WYATT NOLTING Miami
Sir:
I am in the fourth grade. I have been very interested in the elections of my Commonwealth of Massachusetts and of our country. I want you to know that you made a mistake.
Governor Furcolo did not want to become Governor. He wanted to become a Senator. So how could he lose something he didn't run for? He lost in the primaries for Senator. I don't remember who he ran against.* I only know that Salty won the election, and he's no Democrat. I hope that you don't mind my correcting you, but someone is always correcting me.
ARTEMIS STEPHANOU SCALLERIS Arlington, Mass.
First Lady
Sir:
It was surprising, to say the least, to find an inaccuracy in a TIME article.
I am referring to the remark made in your article on my niece, Jacqueline Kennedy: "But other Bouviers were not so enthusiastic" (i.e., about Jackie's engagement to John F. Kennedy). The statement is wholly untrue.
If I may presume to be the spokesman for the "disunited" (another untruth) Bouvier clan, let me say that all of us were proud and delighted about Jackie's engagement at the time, and that we are united in wishing her and her husband splendid years of service to our country.
MAUDE BOUVIER DAVIS New York City
Sir:
That baby carriage on the White House porch was a touch of Chaliapinesque genius.
I'm just a little tired of watching the royal darlings of European crowned heads grow up.
It will be much more fun looking in at the nursery at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
H. HARTMAN Mount Vernon, N.Y.
Sir:
Every time one of the Kennedy offspring has a leaky nose, will we be subjected to a detailed, blow-by-blow account of the catastrophe ?
G. A. SHERBERT Wausau, Wis.
Other Places, Other Slabs
Sir:
Obviously, the architects of the F.D.R. memorial were knowingly or unknowingly inspired by Stonehenge. Their concept is instantly thrilling. This would be the most thought-provoking memorial of our time.
BETTY GOLDSMITH Rochester, N.Y.
Sir: