Frenetic Buildup
Sir:
I hear them acoming in '60. Sounds kinda like Democrats.
J. L. MAHER
Millett, Texas
Sir:
So 10,000 women think Robert Kennedy is a "doll." Well, to me he is just a mop-haired, ambitious young Catholic whose father made his fortune out of banking, Wall Street and selling Scotch whisky. As to brother John for President, in spite of the frenetic buildup being given him, let us remember that America is primarily a Protestant country and the majority of our people would not want a man who believes in a foreign ideology to stand at the helm of our Government.
MRS. JANES
Bradenton, Fla.
Sir:
Re the newly elected Mr. Proxmire: even considering the Morses et al. in our Congress, rarely have we of the U.S. had the distinction of having one so obviously confused represent us. The appalling fact is that citizens can elect such an individual.
E. GORDON SWAIN
Los Angeles
Sir:
With Bill Proxmire serving as their weather vane for the '58 congressional elections, the Democrats probably weren't the least bit affected by your claims that Dick Nixon scored a K.O. in the recent civil rights fiasco. Nixon will need more than TIME and Bill Rogers in '60.
JOSEPH ROSENFELD
Allentown, Pa.
Tales of Hoffa
Sir:
About 15 years in the clink for hooligans like Beck and Hoffa would help the cause of union labor.
J. H. BAKER
Grand Rapids
Sir:
You quote Mr. Hoffa, concerning the recent Detroit newspaper strike, as follows: "In Detroit's recent newspaper strike, at 3 a.m. in the morning three editors came to see me, and we worked things out. I talked and they listened. Can you imagine how it feels to have men like that listen to reason?" This is categorically untrue. Not one Detroit newspaper editor, or managing editor, or city editor met with Mr. Hoffa the night the strike ended, or at any time during the strike. Labor reporters from all three Detroit newspapers covered all meetings and talked with Hoffa but in no way participated in the settlement. In the above quotation, Hoffa may have been referring to these reporters.
JOHN C. MANNING, Editor
Detroit Times
HARRY WADE, Editor
Detroit News
LEE HILLS, Editor Detroit Free Press Detroit
Sir:
I noticed that your Hoffa profile conveniently ignored the well-known fact in Michigan that good ole Jimmy Hoffa is a power in the Michigan Republican Party.
PETER O'NEILL
Detroit
¶Hoffa has played both sides in the past, now is (or was, pre-McClellan) a man of influence among Republican politicians in Michigan's big Wayne County (pop. 2,870,400) on the county and city (Detroit) level.—ED.
Ford's Mixed Grille
Sir:
I have concluded the designers of the new Edsel were striving for the "Surprised Look." If so, they certainly succeeded with the double popeyes and the big oval which seems to say "O-o-oh."
WILLIAM PARDUE
Tucson, Ariz.
Sir:
Ford spent a quarter of a billion to style the Edsel differently from any other car. They made it. From the front it appears about to regurgitate.
H. SIBLEY
Nuevo, Calif.
Sir: